It's very strange, but it works-and we can't wait to see more. A few weeks after release, Reeves released a deleted scene from the movie where it's revealed that Batman (Robert Pattinson) and this weird, scarred, extra creepy take on the Clown Prince of Crime have a history, and a sort of Hannibal Lector Silence of the Lambs type of relationship. It's a laughing, cackling, scarred maniac-credited at the end of the movie only as 'Unseen Arkham Prisoner'-but we all know exactly who this is: The Joker, played by Irish actor and Eternals star Barry Keoghan. Near the end of the movie, after the Riddler has been imprisoned, he makes a friend in his cell. But this is Batman, after all, and Reeves was going to get his version of the guy we were all thinking of in there, one way or another. In Paul Dano's Zodiac-esque Riddler and John Turturro's smooth take on Carmine Falcone, he has a pair of main villains who compliment each other, acting as different forms of adversary for our main hero-and not getting in each other's way. Part of what makes Matt Reeves' initial take on Batman-in 2022's The Batman-is that his villains are a bit off main street as far as the history of the franchise goes. The following story contains spoilers for The Batman (2022)
