Hollywood productions have resumed in the UK after shuttering due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jurassic World: Dominion and Camila Cabello’s Cinderella have already rolled their cameras and now Matt Reeves’ The Batman is gearing up for its production re-start. It has been announced that the Warner Bros. film will head back to work in September.
While filming stopped on the latest Batman entry in March, set construction began last month at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK. Unlike Canada, where incoming U.S. production crews have to quarantine for 14 days before working, that is not the case in the UK as film productions are deemed, essential workers. Warner Bros. has already gone through a similar process with The Matrix 4, which recently began shooting again in Berlin.
Reeves said that a quarter of The Batman was in the can before the shutdown but he wasn’t planning on editing anything at that point. He was going to use his down-time reconsidering “the tone of things.” check out his full quote on the matter below:
“It happens any time you shoot anything. The unexpected — happy accidents and things you didn’t quite expect: That is the lightning in a bottle for something that is alive. I would say that the changes really have to do with ‘Oh, seeing the tone of this’ with these scenes we haven’t done which connect to that part of the storyline. It feels like there might be an opportunity to explore some of that unexpected tone that we found. With these movies, you never have enough prep time, because they’re so complex and so enormous in so many ways. It also gives me a moment to think about the larger sequences that have yet to come up and how I want to realize those.”
Due to COVID-19, the release date for The Batman was pushed from June 2021 to October 1, 2021. The reboot stars Pattinson in the title role, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Colin Farrell as the Penguin, Paul Dano as the Riddler, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon and John Turturro as Carmine Falcone.
