Matt Reeves explains why he included the Joker scene at the end of TheBatman 'This for me was tracking because Paul and The Riddler was in the action of the third act in a very particular way...'
The Batman director Matt Reeves has revealed why he kept the mysterious Joker scene in the final cut of his movie. The Batman is, of course, the most recent interpretation of the iconic DC hero. In Reeves' new imagining of the world of Gotham, actor Robert Pattinson takes on the role of Batman, and is the first actor to play a version of the character to exist outside of the DCEU since Christian Bale took on the role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy.
Close to the end of The Batman, there is a scene in which the Riddler is shown locked in Arkham Asylum in a neighboring cell to an obscured stranger who offers to be his friend. While the inmate is named"Unseen Arkham Prisoner" in The Batman's credits, he has a very distinctive laugh, which lead many viewers to draw the conclusion that the character is this film's version of the infamous Joker.
“A lot of people ask me, ‘Is this a set up for another movie?’ and to be honest it really isn’t. This for me was tracking because Paul and The Riddler was in the action of the third act in a very particular way, and the last we’d seen him he was saying ‘Boom!’ in his window as the bombs went off, and we hadn’t yet seen him take in the fact that Batman had been able to pull things back from the brink and that his plan had not played out, I really wanted to see the end of that arc for Riddler.
While Reeves did state that it was not a deliberate set up for a sequel, he has gone on to say that he feels it makes Selina Kyle's final line about Gotham never being able to change more powerful, as the audience can already see more trouble brewing. Reeves has also stated that, despite wanting to take a break from the world of The Batman for a while, he does have plans for a sequel, so perhaps Reeves is only giving the necessary information about why the scene was left in.
Of course, audiences may have to wait some time to truly learn if the scene was a sequel set up or not. Whether it is or not, Reeves was right that the Riddler's story wouldn't feel finished if the scene were cut. Without it, the last time the Riddler would be seen was as he watched his plan supposedly succeed, which leaves no satisfaction for the audience at the end. The Joker's small surprise cameo doesn't really feel out of place either despite his previous scene being cut.
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