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This movie is definitely going to touch a lot of nerves. I like it.

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On one hand, Matt Reeves is absolutely cooking with his Elseworlds corner in ‘The Batman: Part II’. People are evidently very excited about it. He has set the standard for how Gotham itself can feel like a character in its own right, and the gritty, dark portrayal of Batman by Robert Pattinson has deeply resonated with audiences.

Meanwhile, the DCU Batman, who is supposedly coming our way with ‘The Brave and the Bold’, has a rather questionable creative team behind it, including Christina Hodson, the writer of ‘Birds of Prey’ and ‘The Flash’ — two of the worst DC films of all time.

There are also serious concerns about the tone of this movie and this version of Batman. Theenormous success of ‘Joker’ and ‘The Batman’, despite both releasing during the failing DCEU era, shows that people genuinely love dark, gritty, and grounded DC stories, especially those featuring Batman-adjacent characters. If those characters are reduced to goofy caricatures, audiences would be extremely disappointed and disgusted. Especially when compared side-by-side with the Bat-greatness they are getting from the Reevesverse, people would troll the hell out of the DCU Batman, which could once again become a fatal blow to an infant cinematic universe.

The age range of the DCU Batman is another significant concern. Given how polarising the old-ass Hal Jordan casting has already been, having another older actor play the single most pivotal DC character like Batman could be too divisive for the DCU to handle. At least in Hal Jordan’s case, there is a younger John Stewart to balance him out and clearly carry the Green Lantern mantle forward. But that is not the case with Batman, who is already supposed to have Damian Wayne as his fifth Robin when we first meet him in this movie.

All of this, especially when placed side-by-side with the prestige quality of Reeves’ Gotham and its Batman, makes me very worried that the DCU Batman might be heading toward failure and could potentially drag the entire franchise down with him.

The ‘Clayface’ teaser was great, and I genuinely hope that becomes the blueprint for the DCU Batman as well — dark, gritty, gothic. But in all honesty, that movie is co-produced by Matt Reeves, which is precisely why it feels far more compatible with the Reevesverse than with what we have seen so far from the Gunn-led DCU. And we still do not know whether future non-Reeves-produced DCU projects will maintain the same impeccable quality as ‘Clayface’ or lean more toward stereotypical goofy-with-heart projects like ‘Peacemaker’, ‘Creature Commandos’, and ‘Superman’.

Since Gunn has repeatedly spoken about how much he admires Matt Reeves’ work, and considering Reeves is one of the few filmmakers Gunn actively wants involved with the DCU, it does give me some hope that Gunn understands the importance of taking the DCU Batman and Gotham in a direction as impeccably defined by Reeves in ‘The Batman’ and ‘The Penguin’.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!

If the DCU gives us a time jump of many decades in the future, I hope we get a moment as moving as this one.

It will be one of the most epic scenes in DC's cinematic history, and in superhero cinema in general.

No flashy costumes, superpowers, supervillains, or CGI... just a moment of reconciliation, of a friendship that has lasted for so many decades, where their differences never prevented them from caring for one another.

I had already spoken about this, but it was just a guess that could easily be wrong, but now I am sure that it is the case. Here's the post where I explain my idea in detail.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DCWorldsFinest/comments/1re2gx2/listen_this_might_sound_crazier_to_many_than_the/

Gunn has highly praised Reeves' work, and his involvement as a producer on Clayface and Dynamic Duo leads me to believe that Reeves is also having a possible creative role, which influences how Gotham is being created.

I should also mention that while Flanagan didn't write the script with the Reevesverse in mind, he doesn't rule out Battinson in the DCU, which implies that he sees it as plausible that his Clayface will face him.

https://screenrant.com/james-gunn-dcu-batman-robert-pattinson-potential-mike-flanagan/

So, even if Pattinson doesn't enter the DCU, his Batman will influence, in some way, how the DCU Batman will be written.

Don't label this as part of the production of The Batman Part II, because the film isn't mentioned at any point, and we don't know if the character will make an appearance.

I hope this isn't a problem.

Superman: The Man of Tomorrow (2020) - Issue #19

Just an fun scenario, not a merger post