Craig Zobel returned home from seeing Matt Reeves' The Batman during its opening weekend, and he immediately emailed the filmmaker to express his admiration for the superhero crime drama. Mind you, the Emmy-nominated director behind 2021's Mare of Easttown and 2020's controversial horror satire The Hunt didn't know Reeves in the slightest,

This new approach by Reeves is part of a larger "Batman Epic Crime Saga," a term he used to describe the interconnected stories unfolding across the films and series. Speaking about conversations he had with HBO executives,

Matt Reeves explained why Robert Pattinson, who played Batman in the same world, doesn't appear. "The Penguin" is the second project set within Matt Reeves' grim, violent take on the DC universe, following 2022's " The Batman " which starred Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne and Batman.