Repost from @robertpattinsonww • THE BATMAN director Matt Reeves discusses the film's future and loss of Andrew Jack "Is that really possible on a film like “The Batman,” where many masters have to be served? Of course these things have to be mined in a way that can make these companies money. You never know whether the people in charge of those I.P.s [intellectual properties] are going to be open to your vision. But if they weren’t, I wouldn’t have done “Batman.” I was like, look, there have been some great “Batman” films and I don’t want to just make a “Batman” film. I want to do something that has some emotional stakes. My ambition is for it to be incredibly personal using the metaphors of that world. It feels like this really odd throwback to the movies I came up on from the ’70s, like “Klute” or “Chinatown.” I’m not saying we’re achieving anything like that. Those are masterpieces. But that’s the ambition. What was it like to have a production of that size halted by a global pandemic? The whole thing is quite surreal. As much as we wanted to proceed, we wanted to make sure we were safe. We didn’t want anyone on our crew to get sick. But there was a crew member who actually got it, an incredible dialect coach named Andrew Jack, and he passed away. We were all in utter shock and heartbroken. It’s been weeks since we shut down, so I don’t think it was passed among the crew. But it’s very, very upsetting. When something like that happens, can you even begin to contemplate going back to work? Of course, [I want] to come back when the time is right. I’ve worked on a few things where, for various reasons, you have to stop for a moment — a cast member gets sick, and you have to shut down for a week. You can take stock of what you’ve done and prepare for what’s coming. I don’t think it’s a moment where I’m going, “Why aren’t we shooting?” I’m thinking, “There are bigger things." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/movies/matt-reeves-the-batman-tales-from-the-loop.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesarts #robertpattinson #mattreeves #andrewjack #thebatman #batman @dccomics @thedcuniverse https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vdqIDHXsU/?igshid=98zgb28t61r2
