The world was eagerly waiting for the movie "The Batman", directed by Matt Reeves, expecting a different vision for the most famous and serious convincing superhero, especially after the very modest presentation of director Zack Snyder with actor Ben Affleck in the films "World DC Film Extension (DCEU), and the new movie starring Robert Pattinson is proving to be worth the wait.

The direction, handling, acting, and soundtrack all managed to impress the audience and critics, and the film has earned $603 million so far, with a rating on Rotten Tomatoes of 85%, and at the same time, this great success opened the door to starting a world A new cinematic parallel to DC movies.

The new DC cinematic world

In the new millennium, with the spread of the idea of ​​extended cinematic worlds such as the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" (MCU), the "DC" company - a subsidiary of "Warner Brothers" and the owner of the rights to many famous superhero characters such as Batman and Superman - entered the cinematic scene with a series of films that started With "Iron Man" (Man Of Steel) in 2013.

But in contrast to the great successes that Marvel achieved at every step and with each new movie, the “DC” films were fluctuating in level, and the audience did not receive most of them in a good way, and they suffered from confusion and mismanagement, and their performance became a great mystery, how does the large production company meet the most important Superheroes, capable of attracting the hottest stars, these frequent failures?

A large part of this failure is due to the attempt of the "DC" films to transform its characters to fit the style of the Marvel films, by adding a lightness and vitality that is not primarily found in building dark characters like Batman or suffering from an existential crisis like "Spiderman". The result was not satisfactory. Whether for fans of superhero movies, or the broad base of DC fans.

Joker and a new beginning

This appeared clearly in 2019 with the movie “Joker”, directed by Todd Phillips, which was considered one of the best superhero films, and one of the most important works of this year, and its hero, Joaquin Phoenix, won two Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Best Actor from the International Film Festival. Venice Film, and presented a very dark picture of Gotham City, but in an era before Batman, and beginning with the character of the famous anarchist Joker, whose paths are supposed to intersect in the future with Batman.

This great success contributed to thinking about DC's relaunch of the Batman character, with a new actor and a different directorial vision, and from here the Matt Reeves project began, and the selection of Robert Pattinson.

With the director's desire for greater creative freedom, he asked to move away from the events and nature of the film from the extended DC cinematic world, and presented a film as close as possible to the movie world of the Joker, immersed in the complex nature of the Batman character, with more than one iconic character from this world adapted from the comics , such as "Ridler the Puzzle Man", "Penguin" or the Penguin Man, but before the end of the film only another very famous character appeared, Joker, and this made many wonder: Are we in the process of mixing the Joker and Batman films?

Overlapping artistic worlds

In fact, the answer is yes and no!

Two parts have already been announced for the upcoming Batman films with the same actor and director, while the work is a new trilogy for the character of Batman separate from the extended DC cinematic universe, and at the same time the series will be singled out for the character "The Penguin/The Penguin", which was very successful in The cinematic movie, after being presented by actor Colin Farrell, to create all of this what looks like a parallel art world such as the Marvel Project and its new multiple series, but in a more serious and darker way and in line with the nature of the characters in the DC Comics.

But this world will not intersect with the Joker movie, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, and this was evident by choosing the actor Barry Coogan to provide the voice. From the world of The Next Batman directed by him.

The Joker of this world looks more inspired by the comics, with his hair pulled up and a wrinkled face far from the look that Todd Phillips chose for his movie Joker closest to natural and did not put his famous makeup until towards the end.

Warner announced that the two cinematic worlds for its films will continue in parallel and do not intersect, but this has not yet solved the mystery of the new actor coming to present the role of Batman in the extended cinematic world that carries characters such as Wonder Woman and Superman, and the actor Ben Affleck announced that he will not return to this role. So will Batman be the next original DC Universe?