Matt Reeves has been taking time out from The Penguin and The Batman – Part II to chat about Batman: Caped Crusader and its future.
Part of Warner Bros’ ongoing, multi-year fire sale saw the studio sell off an animated show featuring one of its ‘crown jewels’, the noir-styled Batman: Caped Crusader, a series that combined the DNA of the 1990s Batman: The Animated Series with a take on the character that drew from his earliest appearances in Detective Comics.
Amazon Studios picked up the show and on release, it garnered some very good reviews. Bruce Timm, the architect of Batman: The Animated Series’ success is part of the creative team, as are JJ Abrams, James Tucker and Ed Brubaker.
That’s quite an assembly of talent, also bolstered by Matt Reeves, the current director of live action Batman films.
Reeves has been out and about promoting The Penguin, the (also live action) series that spins off from The Batman, and as such, has been talking about the future of Batman: Caped Crusader. He had this to say to Collider about the status of the show’s second series:
“[W]e’re in the midst of animatics, and the episodes have all been written. We’re underway in terms of starting to realize the show. You begin with animatics and then it kind of flushes out in the whole [world]. So, it’s exciting. I mean, it’s where we’re deep into it.”
As for when we might see it, Reeves added that “I don’t actually know. I’m not sure … I think it would be 2025, not 2026. But I don’t actually have the answer to that.”
The second series was ordered following Amazon’s acquisition of the show, but a third series has yet to be commissioned. According to Reeves, even he doesn’t know yet whether they’ll get the go-ahead, but he did say that we’ll know pretty soon, stating: “The third season […] I think we should know in the next few weeks… We hope there’ll be a third, but we just don’t know yet.”
If you’re a Batman fan and haven’t yet checked it out, Batman: Caped Crusader is well worth a watch and will certainly scratch that Batman itch until The Penguin airs on the 20th September on Sky Atlantic and NOW.
