Why was Barry Keoghan’s Joker scene cut from “Batman”?

After “Batman” opened in theaters, an exclusive scene that did not make it into the final cut was released by Warner Bros., showing dialogue between the Bat Man in Robert Pattinson (“Memories”) and the joker in Barry Keoghan (“Eternals”) in Arkham Asylum. But why was it deleted? The director Matt Reeves (“Planet of the Apes”) explains.

In an extra video released by the studio, the filmmaker said that it was very much related to the narrative already outlined in the film, and much of the information from the conversation between the duo would not add more. ‎”When we were putting the movie together, this scene, as much as I think Barry and Rob made such a cool scene together, was one of those things where narratively wasn’t necessary”explained Reeves.

“You have everything Barry was telling him, what the Joker was telling him, played out throughout the movie and given the length of the movie, taking the scene out contributed to the story, but I’ve always loved the work that Barry and Rob did on the scene”, he added. Watch the video:

It was nothing new that keoghan would play one of the vigilante’s most fearless rivals, so much so that at the end of “The Batman” it is possible to hear a dialogue between him and the Charadecharacter of Paul Dano. However, before the take unprecedented, keoghan it hadn’t been seen as the terror of Gotham City.

“Batman” follows the second year of Bruce Wayne as a vigilante, fighting crime as the embodiment of revenge. When an assassin targets Gotham’s elite with a series of sadistic machinations, a trail of cryptic clues sends the World’s Greatest Detective on an investigation into the underworld and brings him closer and closer to home.

Besides Pattinson in the lead role, the cast also has Zoë Kravitz (“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”), Andy Serkis (“Planet of the Apes: The War”), Peter Sarsgaard (“The Price of a Truth”), Jeffrey Wright (“Westworld”), John Turturro (“Transformers: The Last Knight”), Jayme Lawson (“Farewell Love”) and Colin Farrell (“Northern Waters”) as the Penguinwhich will have its own series.

“Batman” arrived on HBO Max with as much success as it was at the box office, where it grossed more than $750 million worldwide. At the streamingjust in its first week, the long Reeves it surpassed big Warner titles such as “Dune” and “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”.

It is worth remembering that “Batman 2” was officially confirmed by the studio during Cinemacon 2022.

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