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‘The Batman’ Director Matt Reeves Reveals The Riddler’s Villain Plot, Says Film Is ‘Almost a Horror Movie’

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“The Batman,” and co-writer and director Matt Reeves has something unexpected up his sleeve.In a new cover story at Moviemaker Magazine, Reeves revealed what villain The Riddler’s (Paul Dano) dastardly plot entails, some of the specific filmic influences on the superhero adaptation and the variety of genres in which it traverses.The redo introduces Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, but instead of telling an origin story, the film picks up a couple of years after Wayne first donned the cape and cowl.

And for Reeves, front of mind was telling a genuine detective story. “This idea of a place that is corrupt, and you try to swim against the tide in order to fight against it and make a difference, is quintessential Batman,” Reeves said. “And at the center of those noir stories is almost always the detective, right?

And that’s why he is the world’s greatest detective. And so this story is, in addition to being almost a horror movie, and a thriller, and an action movie, at its core, it’s also very much a detective story.

It’s very narrative.”While previous “Batman” directors have touted their films as detective stories, ultimately that turns out not to be the case.

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