Gotham Will be Different in ‘The Batman’
By George Robbins
DC FanDome was a huge event for the DC brand as a whole because it allowed them the opportunity to show people all of their upcoming projects. These upcoming projects that were announced are meant to give people a reason to get hyped about all of the films and other works currently being produced. A number of different announcements were made that made it possible for DC to draw more attention to themselves and this was the point of the Con. This convention was the first one of its kind and due to the unique circumstances this year, it was held entirely online. This gave people all over the opportunity to see what DC was working on, and the free admission allowed their news to spread to the masses.
Plenty of different projects were announced that people have been looking forward to seeing something for. Now that some of those projects have had details released, we now know what we should be looking forward to as time goes on. Although a couple of those projects are still a ways off, they all look a lot better than we originally expected them to. Although many of those projects are still in the middle of development, they are already looking great and are doing a lot to get people excited for their releases in the long term. Among those projects was one of the bigger surprises, ‘The Batman,’ which ended up looking a lot better than people expected it to just like all of the other projects being worked on.
‘The Batman’ is an upcoming film that will not really be a part of the DC Extended Universe, or DCEU. The movie will be a standalone story that will show the titular Caped Crusader at an early point in his career as The Dark Knight. Director Matt Reeves admitted that the film was not an original take on the character and that the film takes inspiration from a comic story. The film will not take place during Bruce Wayne’s first year as the titular Bat, but it will take place at a point very early on in the grand scheme of things. Without Batman around, the city was becoming a place ruled by crime and, early on, he hadn’t really inspired the fear in people that he has later which keeps more crime from happening.
In his second year stint as the Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne is trying to stop the plague of crime and corruption that has run rampant throughout Gotham City. The primary murderous antagonist in the film will be The Riddler who is being portrayed by Paul Dano. While previous versions of Gotham were portrayed in various ways based upon cities in the United States, Reeves admitted that this version of Gotham will be a more original take on the film. He has said that the city will, “feel like an American city you’d never been to.” This gives us a pretty good idea as to how much he wants it to be different from previous incarnations and it gives us a chance to see a brand new take on the classic cityscape.