K.T Simpson
Matt Reeves has abandoned plans to stage a TV series set in the world of his Gotham City Police Department from “The Batman”.
The filmmaker tells the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast that he’s gone cold on the idea, which would’ve fixed on a crooked police officer.
“One thing that we’re not doing that I was gonna do. … So there’s the Gotham police show, which, that one actually is put on hold. We’re not really doing that.”
The “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” filmmaker told The Cyber Nerds that the project has evolved into a series about Arkham Asylum.
“The GCDP thing, that story has kind of evolved,” Reeves says. “We’ve actually now moving more into the realm of exactly what would happen in the world of Arkham as it relates coming off of our movie, and some of the characters, again in their origins that you would – almost leaning into the idea of – it’s like a horror movie or a haunted house that is Arkham.”
He continued: “The idea of, again the way that Gotham is a character in the movie, I really want Arkham to exist as a character, so that you go into this environment and encounter these characters in a way that feels really fresh. And so in our work on Gotham, that story started to evolve, and it started feeling, ‘Wait, we should really lean into this.’ And that’s kind of where that’s gone.”
