Matt Reeves Dishes on Sharing 'The Batman Part II' Script With Star Robert Pattinson | Emmys 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Matt Reeves chats with THR at the 2025 Emmys red carpet and dishes on the next steps for his upcoming film 'The Batman Part II' and how Robert Pattinson reacted to receiving the final script. Plus, Reeves talks about how he was blown away by the Emmy award-winning show 'Adolescence.'

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00:00Wow, this is a big deal. This is a big deal, Matt Reeves on Emmy Sunday. First of all, how are you feeling?

00:06I'm incredibly excited. I mean, I'm so incredibly excited about the work that our cast and the writers and that everybody did,

00:12and to be here tonight is kind of a dream, so I'm super excited.

00:15And also, I mean, first of all, to see so many people get recognized and so many nominations,

00:21I don't want to ask you to pick a favorite, but was there one that really jumped out to you, really meaningful?

00:26Because, of course, Colin, transformative, Kristen, transformative, you know, a tour de force performance,

00:32but was there somebody sort of below the line that just really meant a lot to you for their hard work?

00:36Well, you know, I mean, honestly, as you said, we were so gratified that our incredible cast,

00:41that everybody involved, you know, that got nominations to be 24 is kind of insane,

00:45but I have to say, for me personally, just because of my relationship with Michael and Mick,

00:49you know, Mick is a very young composer, and he worked so hard on the show,

00:53and he won last weekend, and it was super exciting,

00:55so that just, on a very personal level, meant a lot to me.

00:59And so, first of all, who was the last person you texted?

01:04I know you probably received a lot of love, texts, DMs, emails from people who just said they loved what you guys have accomplished.

01:10Who was the last person you reached out to to say, man, I'm such a fan, or I love that show?

01:16Oh, gosh.

01:16You know, I would say, recently, I was, because we're starting to gear up,

01:21and we're talking about different crew people for the movie and everything,

01:24and I was talking to some of the people at Plan B,

01:27and I just was telling them how blown away I was by adolescence,

01:30which I just think that show really got to me.

01:32I was really affected, yeah.

01:35Everyone from that show is pretty amazing.

01:37Wait, now tell me, so since you brought it up, listen, you're a pro.

01:39I know you've been asked this 10 ways to Sunday about where you're at,

01:44but you finished the scripts, sort of, what's next?

01:48We're beginning.

01:49We're staffing up.

01:50We're starting to get our crew back together.

01:52We're getting ready.

01:53We're basically entering prep.

01:54We'll be making the movie in the spring, so super excited.

01:58It's been like a journey that has taken longer than I would have wanted to,

02:01for a lot of reasons, a lot of personal reasons,

02:03but most important reason is getting it to a place where I just felt like it was the best script we could possibly write,

02:08and I'm super excited about what Mattson and I did

02:11and Dylan and I getting back together and doing something that we're super excited about.

02:14I started sharing it with, like, the cast.

02:16I gave the script to Rob, and he was super excited,

02:18and so it's all, it's that crazy feeling because there's been this period of time where, like,

02:23okay, I've been working, you know, really, really hard and kind of quiet with Mattson,

02:27and now suddenly it's like, okay, now this is what we're doing,

02:29and to see the response so far has been super exciting because we're really passionate about it.

02:32How do you do that?

02:33Do you give Rob, like, I mean, you've got to keep tabs on the script.

02:37No one can get it out, so how do you do that?

02:39We keep it, we put it in a, so Benito, who's my assistant,

02:42he puts it, he goes and seeks out a very, very high security pouch that has a code on it

02:48that then we have to send separately, and it's inside of a locked, it's absurd,

02:52but we have a very, very high security pouch that we got to Rob,

02:56and then he was like, I can't open it.

02:58I said, I know, here's the code, and then he opens it,

03:00and then we had a FaceTime after he read it.

03:02It was very exciting, yeah, yeah.

03:04Yeah, I don't think it's absurd at all because I think that the fever around,

03:07I mean, anything in the DC, anything in the universe is so high,

03:11and you've got to protect it because people would just go,

03:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:13No, I would be very, I mean, obviously, because of what the first movie was

03:18and what this movie is, which is so much a detective story,

03:20the idea of trying to protect the secrets of the movie is super important

03:24because it's a mystery.

03:25I mean, it's all part of that.

03:26So that would be an extra level of heartbreak if that part of it started getting out.

03:30But yeah, it's, you know, these kind of movies always, you kind of want to keep the surprise

03:35so that the fans of the genre and of these movies can have the fun experience

03:40that I always loved going to the movies, which was to go and be surprised.

03:43And because you just said it was a lot of personal stuff,

03:46it was also just a longer than you anticipated,

03:48does that make it when you hand it over to Rob,

03:51I mean, listen, you're brilliant,

03:53so I don't imagine you need other people's validation to feel good,

03:58but were you more nervous about giving it to Rob at this because so many years had passed?

04:03Well, the years for sure, but also he's Batman.

04:07So if he doesn't like it, not good.

04:10So I was super excited because I thought that he really would

04:13because it's a very, the things that it does for his character, for Batman and for Bruce,

04:18I think we've, has never been done before in this way.

04:21And I had a feeling that he would respond in this way,

04:23but he, the fact that he did was incredibly encouraging.

04:26And of course, I'm nervous every time anyone reads it

04:28because we put all this passion into it,

04:29but you want, you hope people connect to what you're trying to do.

Matt Reeves Dishes on Sharing 'The Batman Part II' Script With Star Robert Pattinson | Emmys 2025

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