One argument you’ll often see amongst comic book fans, especially on the DC side, is whether Robert Pattinson’s Batman/Bruce Wayne and his two films should be a part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe.
Gunn has made it clear in the past that everything with the Matt Reeves-directed films and its HBO Max spin-off series “The Penguin” are part of their own universe and not tied to the DCU titles like “Superman,” “Supergirl,” “Clayface,” or HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” “Creature Commandos,” “Peacemaker” and the upcoming “The People vs. Gorilla Grodd”.
Still, there’s been nothing stated or shown directly in any of the films or shows so far that definitively rules out the possibility, and some fans are still holding onto that hope.
Now, while promoting “Primetime” which coincidentally stars DCU regular Skyler Gisondo, current Batman actor Robert Pattinson seems to think his take on the character wouldn’t work with the others.
Speaking exclusively to LADbible, Pattinson was asked how his take on Bruce Wayne/Batman would fare around Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen and other DCU characters, to which he joked he’d “make the other characters more serious”.
While “Superman” and the like shot in sunny Atlanta, Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” films in entirely different conditions:
“It’s so funny, because Gotham is Watford. It’s a shed in Watford. There’s something so destabilising about when you’re just, you’re in the dark the whole time. I mean, just for eight months in the dark and you literally have no conception of being connected to anything in the world.”
He added that it was “difficult to even maintain your sanity” with that kind of filming schedule. He didn’t deny the possibility of a crossover, but still remains unconvinced his Bruce Wayne would work in the DCU world:
“I think it would be kind of tough to have this version of Bruce outside of that world. It’s one of the only characters, I guess, because of the length of the shoot, but also it’s such a specific kind of [style]; the tone of it gets inside you. I remember that happened to me the last time I did it; it took a while. You’re just in the dark the whole time. Both mood-wise and light-wise, I can’t see anything for like months. It does affect you like; you feel strange afterwards.”
“Primetime” opens in U.S. cinemas tomorrow ahead of a UK and Australian opening around Halloween. The new “Batman” is currently in production through the rest of the year and opens early 2028.
