Hyping up the return of Colin Farrell’s Penguin in a new interview, batman Director Matt Reeves says that in his vision of Gotham there isn’t much room for “completely fantastical” villains who invoke the supernatural – and one character in particular has disappointed fans: Gentleman Ghost.
After Gentleman Ghost recently appeared on Batman: Caped CrusaderAccording to SFX Magazine (via Variety and Deadline ), fans are asking Reeves to incorporate the relatively obscure DC Comics character into his upcoming sequel. However, the director had other plans.
He explained to SFX Magazine: “It was important to me to find a way to translate these pop icons, these mythical characters that everyone knows, in a way that makes Gotham feel like a place in our world. “We might push the edge of fantasy, but we’ll never go into full fantasy. That means it feels very grounded. That doesn’t mean you won’t see characters that people like. That’s what we want Gentleman Ghost might be a little too much for us to find a way to do, but there’s an interesting way to think about how we might be pushed into a little bit of fantasy. character and find a way to understand that.
Originally a villain who faced off against Hawkman and Hawkgirl, James “Gentleman Jim” Craddock made his debut in the October 1947 issue of Flash Comics as a flamboyant thief who used parlor tricks to make himself Looks like an untouchable spirit from beyond the grave. In later years, the character was reconfirmed to be the real ghost of a 19th-century highwayman who was executed by a lynch mob. Forced to wander the Earth until the soul of his killer (who later reincarnated as Hawkman and Hawkgirl) transferred to the next plane of existence, Ghost Gentleman did so by harassing the various superheroes of the DC Universe, including Batman. To pass the time.
Since the live-action Batman movies have since not pitted the character against legitimate supernatural threats batman returns (Michelle Pfeiffer’s undead/elemental Catwoman, opposite Danny DeVito’s black slime-spewing Penguin) The visually striking and very interesting ghost feels like we’re here A welcome alternative to the street criminals seen in both films batman and Christopher Nolan’s dark knight Trilogy. Despite this, Reeves maintained his “down to earth” approach to the character, referring to Penguin series as part of the “Epic Crime Saga”.
As Levi said, “[The sequel is] “To dig deeper into an epic story about a deeper corruption that goes into places he couldn’t have predicted in the first story. The seeds of it all were in the first movie. It expands in a way that shows you that you Aspects of the character that have never been seen before.
According to Reeves, Batman’s enemies “cannot be exorcised,” which seems to rule out Gentleman Ghost. “Batman is constantly fighting these forces,” he said. “But these forces can’t be completely eliminated. So the next movie will explore this in more depth.
While we wait for Batman to return, Penguin Premieres on HBO and Max on September 19th.
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