Matt Reeves Discusses the Possibility of Including Robin in THE BATMAN Sequel

Director Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. have yet to officially announce a sequel to The Batman, but with how big of a success the first film has been, a sequel is definitely going to happen. It’s just a matter of time.

Reeves is still in the process of figuring out what he’d like to do with a sequel, but in a recent interview with the Happy Sad Confused, the filmmaker was asked about the possibility of introducing Robin in the next film. As you might imagine, he wasn’t very enthusiastic about the idea, but he gave it some thought and said:

“Maybe. We’ll just say maybe. I don’t know. Here’s the thing, I have a lot of ideas about what I want to do. I’m not sure what the next story is. For me, whatever that story’s going to be, it’s going to be to take these characters — and specifically Batman’s character — and put them in some kind of emotional jeopardy. So when you talk about what you’re talking about, there may be a really interesting story. There’d have to be emotional stakes to get drawn into that character’s story.

“I don’t want that character to become a cypher. I don’t want to be like, ‘Okay, so we saw it wasn’t an origin tale, but you know what, that was kind of [Batman’s] origins and now he’s just perfect.’ No, you need to test the character again and again and again. And for me, yeah, there might be something in that. I don’t know. There’s a deep-dive that already happened at the beginning and now I’m gonna have to deep-dive again if we have the chance to make another one and so we shall see.”

Whatever Reeves ends up doing for The Batman sequel, I trust that he’s going to deliver another badass movie. If he finds a cool way to introduce Robin, great! If he chooses not to include the character, that’s fine too! As long as Reeves pumps out another great Batman story, I’ll show up to watch it!

Would you want to see Robin introduced in this latest iteration of Batman?