Don't Forget That Matt Reeves Said THE BATMAN is "Definitely Not" BATMAN: YEAR ONE
Yesterday the director of The Batman, Matt Reeves, shared an image on his Twitter feed featuring a panel from Mark Miller’s 1987 comic book Batman: Year One. As expected, the Internet went wild with it and all kinds of entertainment websites are reporting that this means the film is going to be an adaptation of the comic or heavily inspired by the classic comic. Here’s what he tweeted out:
The comic panel shows Bruce returned to Gotham and he’s thinking about the best way to fight crime in the city.
Now just because Reeves posted this doesn’t mean the film is going to have anything to do with Year One! The fact that people are saying it just makes me laugh because everything they are saying is 100% speculation. Do you know what isn’t speculation? Reeves previously saying that The Batman is “definitely not Year One”.
After rumors started coming out that the film would be inspired by Batman: Year One, The filmmaker said:
"We’re not doing any particular [comic]. Year One is one of the many comic books that I love. We are definitely not doing Year One. It’s just exciting to be focused very specifically on a tale that is defining for him and very personal to him. Obviously we’re not doing an origin tale or anything like that. We’re doing a story that is definitively Batman though and trying to tell a story that’s emotional and yet is really about him being the world’s greatest detective and all the things that for me, since I was a kid, made me love Batman."
Sure, The Batman may pull inspiration from several Batman comics, but it’s going to be its own thing and not Year One.