Probably nothing is a frustrating as being stopped right in the middle of a production. You have made all your preparations. The production team has found a footing on what works and what doesn’t. You are starting to roll (literally). But then everything comes to a screeching halt. So what happens while you’re biding your time. For Matt Reeves, that meant looking through his work this far and seeing what was there. Not really editing, but looking to see if any surprises were in the can to be discovered. He described how he was using his down time with Deadline.
We’re not officially editing right now. We’ve actually shot a quarter of the movie and I have been pouring through dailies, looking at takes, and what’s to come. It happens any time you shoot anything. The unexpected — happy accidents and things you didn’t quite expect.
That is the lightning in a bottle for something that is alive. I would say that the changes really have to do with ‘Oh, seeing the tone of this’ with these scenes we haven’t done which connect to that part of the storyline. It feels like there might be an opportunity to explore some of that unexpected tone that we found. With these movies, you never have enough prep time, because they’re so complex and so enormous in so many ways. It also gives me a moment to think about the larger sequences that have yet to come up and how I want to realize those.
“It took me two years to work on that story, and it’s a very specific mystery noir that’s been really thought-out by me and my partners.”
So while Reeves is putting good use of his time, there is no timeline yet when their production will resume. The one thing he believes is that the film will continue to film in London when the work resumes. This is assuming, of course, that we come out the other end of this pandemic. Does what you have heard so far from the Batman make you excited to see Reeves’ final film? Share your initial thought with us at Geek Vibes Nation.
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