The Batman director finally explains why Bruce Wayne doesn’t intervene in The Penguin

The penguinHBO’s new TV show about Batman’s third or fourth greatest enemy wrapped last Sunday, and overall the fan reaction is compelling. We watched Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) lose the rest of his soul as he climbed the criminal ladder in Gotham City and we loved every minute of it. It seems everyone else did too, as did Samba TV reports that the show topped streaming for its entire eight-episode run.

The penguin was so good that we didn’t even care that Batman himself never showed up. The show is set in the same world as the 2022 film The Batmanin which Bruce Wayne is played by Robert Pattinson. That film ended with the Riddler (Paul Dano) blowing up a seawall in Gotham and flooding a poor part of the city, resulting in a humanitarian crisis. If The penguin continued, some fans wondered why Batman didn’t intervene in the increasingly violent gang war between Oz and his rival Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti). According to The Batman director Matt Reeves, he had too much else in place.

“This was a time of great unrest in the city, it’s literally the week after what happened,” Reeves said. Digital spy. “A lot of the city is in despair, so the police can’t get everywhere, there’s crime everywhere, it’s a very, very dangerous time. (Batman’s) trying to grapple with the aftermath of everything that happened, which he has done to some extent.” blames himself.”

To look The penguinit could be easy to forget that the entire story begins just a week after the end The Batmanso it makes sense that the Caped Crusader would be derivative. But by the end he’s got Oz figured out; the final shot is of the Bat-Signal lighting up the cloudy night sky, so we can expect a reckoning along the way The Batman: Part IIwhich will be released in theaters in 2026.

Speaking of Part IIReeves said that Bruce Wayne will find it “very difficult to be Batman” in the future. I doubt Oz is going to make it easier.

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