The Batman director Matt Reeves reveals Robert Pattinson’s Batman did meet the mysterious prisoner in Arkham Asylum but it was deleted

Director Matt Reeves recently talked about a deleted scene from The Batman that features a mysterious prisoner with Robert Pattinson’s caped crusader. In the recently released film, we see Robert Pattinson’s Batman hunt down and triumph over Paul Dano’s Riddler, who eventually ends up in Arkham Asylum. Towards the end scene in asylum, we get a glimpse of the Riddler with a mysterious prisoner credited as ‘Unseen Arkham Prisoner’. The prisoner seems to be the previously rumored Barry Keoghan’s Joker, paving its way into Matt Reeves’ rendition of The Batman franchise.

However, Pattinson’s Batman does meet this iconic Batman character in the film, but in a cut scene. Speaking to Collider, the director Matt Reeves discussed the deleted scene, “that would’ve made Keoghan’s character more integral to the film” and said, “There is a scene that I would love the audience to see that I didn’t put in. Not because anyone asked me to cut it, but because I didn’t think that within the larger narrative it worked, that it was necessary.”

“But it’s a really cool scene with that same unseen prisoner in Arkham,” Reeves added. “There was an earlier scene where Batman, because he’s getting these cards and letters from the Riddler, and he’s thinking, ‘why is this guy writing to me? I’m supposed to be anonymous and he’s putting a lens on me. I don’t like that,’ and so he goes to kind of profile this kind of serial killer.”

Matt Reeves continued, “And you see him meeting with somebody who is obviously a serial killer himself, who, because it’s not Batman’s origin, but it is the origins of all these other characters, you’re seeing a version of this character who, yes, when you see the unknown prisoner, you’re like, ‘well, gee, I think that’s who that is.’ Well, that is who that is, but he’s not yet that character.”

When asked about the possibility of audiences ever seeing this deleted scene, Reeves revealed, "We'll do something with it." He said, "I mean, look, we've just finished the movie. We're now promoting the movie. We're figuring out what's going to happen when everything goes into sort of the home video version of it, but there's definitely a plan to do something with it. We for sure will show that scene."

There’s only a glimpse of Barry Keoghan’s take on the Joker in The Batman, but according to Reeves, Keoghan did get to share a scene with Pattinson, “This was a really cool scene, and what Barry and what Rob did in that scene was super cool. So at some point, I definitely want the audience to see that scene, just because they could see this really cool scene, but it isn’t something that’s part of the overall narrative that is like, “oh, I wish…’ I won’t even put it in the movie. It won’t be a different cut. The cut that is out there in the theaters, that’s the cut.”

Matt Reeves’ The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, is currently playing in theaters.

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