The Batman Director Matt Reeves Addresses The Difficulty Of Creating A New Joker After DC Spinoff Rumors Debunked

The future of Barry Keoghan’s Joker in The Batman universe may be facing a very tricky obstacle in the future of Robert Pattinson’s DC franchise.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, not long after James Gunn debunked that a Joker spinoff show was in the works for Keoghan, Matt Reeves was asked if it is tricky to reinvent the Clown Prince of Crime, following a lot of popular iterations of him. Reeves stressed that it is all about finding “a fresh way to do it,” while sharing the following:

Matt Reeves: Anytime you’re going to approach any of these characters, you have to find a fresh way to do it. So that makes it incredibly daunting. At the same time, this version of Penguin is a version of Penguin that no one had ever seen. The only way to do it is to feel like you’re earning your place because otherwise you’re just doing more, and people are going like, “Well, we’ve seen it, so what do you got for us?” So how can it be the thing we love, but also something we haven’t seen? That’s always the challenge. So with a character like that, that would have to be the bar.

Source: THR