Mattson Tomlin is out doing a bunch of interviews at the moment, a man who has quickly become one of the most in-demand scribes in Hollywood and a co-writer on Matt Reeves’ upcoming and top-secret “The Batman” film.
While he can’t say much about the film, he has offered several teases of what to expect from the DC Comics adaptation. First up, he tells Den of Geek that the new film will look heavily into Bruce Wayne’s psychological make-up:
“It’s the early days. I think that, first of all, it’s a younger version than the most recent versions that we’ve seen. I think that Matt Reeves as a filmmaker, if you look at any of his work, whether or not it’s Let Me In or Cloverfield or the Planet of the Apes movies, he’s always coming from a point of emotion. It’s never the big action thing. It’s always, what is this character’s soul?
I think that really looking at Batman as somebody who has gone through this trauma, and then everything that he’s doing is then a reaction to that, rather than shy away from that, I think this film leans into that in some very fun and surprising ways. I think that’s all I can say without getting yelled at.”
Next he tells ComicBook.com that despite the COVID-19 pandemic in interrupting filming about halfway through, the break in production hasn’t seen any script changes even as some filming location changes have taken place with more in studio shooting than originally planned:
“I mean, the movie is the movie, and I think that right now the plan is to just execute that vision. They were quite a ways into shooting as it was. And so it really is just how do you finish safely? How do you make sure that everybody can show up for work and then go home and all be okay?”
It’s expected the first footage from the film will screen at the DC FanDome event next weekend. Tomlin meanwhile penned Netflix’s Jamie Foxx-led “Project Power” releasing today and is attached to a film adaptation of the “Mega Man” gaming franchise.
“The Batman” opens in cinemas on October 1st 2021.
