16 January 2025

Deadline is reporting that a third trailer for Mickey17 is about to drop:

Which leads us to the much-delayed $80M Mickey 17, Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s next movie that was finished in January 2023 and has changed release dates four times (March 29, 2024, followed by January 31, 2025, Easter weekend April 18, and finally March 7). Bong gets final cut and has been working on the ideal cut, collaborating with the studio on its suggestions. Tracking services are concerned that the first two trailers didn’t exactly set the world on fire

While two trailers have generated more than 41M views per social media analytics firm RelishMix, the trailer’s viral rate is low at 6:1 next to Superman‘s massive 317:1 and Minecraft‘s 50:1. At the same time, when it comes to director Bong, the filmmaker has few box office comps, his highest being his multi-Oscar-winning Parasite at $262M. Much like Robert Eggers found a growing fanbase in Nosferatu, the hope is that Bong will experience a similar boom. Tracking sources tell us that the movie’s draw rests largely on star Robert Pattinson’s shoulders, and the new release date allows The Batman actor to promote the project. A third trailer will drop soon in an attempt to reignite the campaign for the film about the comedic astronaut who dies several times.

8 January 2025

Josh Horowitz interviewed Matt Reeves on the Golden Globes red carpet and managed to ask about The Batman II (starts at about 3.42). Josh asked if he was happy with how the script was progressing to which Matt said yes and again confirmed that they will be shooting this year and that the script has taken longer than he wanted, but that he’s “super excited about what they are doing”. Josh also tried to find out about who the main villian was going to be but of course Matt was very tight lipped but said that it would be surprising to the fans. He also said:

“The story is a continuation in a certain way and completely different in another, and is going to show a different side of Rob and I think it’s going to be really exciting and really cool.”

Finally, Josh tells Matt he’s spoken to James Gunn and whether Rob will be integrated into the DCU and it’s been talked about, but Matt’s attitude is whether it makes sense or not and he’s not sure what the future will bring and he doesn’t know we’ll have to see where that goes, but again Matt reiterated that his main focus is shooting The Batman II.

Watch the video to see whether Matt reads the rumours on line and whether there will be other spinoffs. Howevever, his main priority is to focus on The Batman II – Click to watch.

7 January 2025

Matt Reeves confirms that The Batman II will definitely be shooting this year in the wake of the film being pushed back to October 2027. According to Deadline:

Matt Reeves couldn’t say much about The Batman II, other than “I can tell you that we’ll be shooting this year.”… “We’re doing something where the story continues from, but I hope that people will be surprised by,” said Reeves.

Deadline had heard “through sources previously that the sequel to the $772M-plus grossing 2022 movie was lensing this summer. Given the VFX heavy movie, 2027 is a doable deadline.”

30 December 2024

Whilst promoting Nosferatu, Robert Eggers talks about hoping to work with Rob again (starts at 22:16):

I’m planning to see Nosferatu this week since it’s being released tomorrow. I too hope we see both Robs work together again in the future!

26 December 2024

Variety shared this clip of Matt Reeves talking with Zoe Kravitz about writing his process of writing the script for The Batman and visualising Rob in the role. If you want to read the full by clicking the Variety hyperlink

When #TheBatman director Matt Reeves was writing the film’s script, he imagined Robert Pattinson in the role. | Variety #DirectorsOnDirectors presented by @AmazonMGMStudio https://t.co/uOpiEBMZ57 pic.twitter.com/hEzyVtjzOl

— Variety (@Variety) December 18, 2024

Extract Transcript:

Kravitz: How do you feel about casting? Especially when you’re doing a superhero film where there’s been so many other versions.

Reeves: I had to find a personal way into Batman and then think about how somebody could bring something personal to me. You’re always looking for an internal life that’s going to take what this story is and make us feel like you’re getting a glimpse into what this person’s struggle is. It’s weird: To be totally honest, when I was writing, I was thinking of Rob.

Kravitz: It just popped into your head?

Reeves: Well, I just started thinking about the children of Princess Diana, and the idea of being this orphaned prince. For some reason, I don’t know why, that made a connection to Kurt Cobain for me. And then somewhere in there, someone told me to watch [the 2017 Robert Pattinson movie] “Good Time.” And I was like, “That’s the only person I could imagine as this Batman. I don’t think that I know what it is if it’s not him.” It was weirdly fated, because it turned out that he was obsessed with Batman.

Robert Pattinson may have wanted to be an actor without being a celebrity. But then he turned his fame into its own kind of performance. “I can’t believe this is still going,” he said in an interview with The New York Times Style Magazine. https://t.co/vvTtIFf4Oe pic.twitter.com/qapbbM7Kkn

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 4, 2024

7 December 2024

Thanks to @love_cinema we have four more great photos from this shoot

We posted a few days ago that Empire had an exclusive edition featuring Mickey17. Thanks to Chrissy sending me the scans below we can now read the full feature. I love how Bong refers to Rob focussing on the project and his character as watching “a beast go after its prey”.

PS. I forgot to post the subscriber version of the cover the other day – so here it is