Matt Reeves: ‘The Batman’ TV Series Changed From Gotham PD to Arkham After Creative Differences
variety.comZack Sharf “The Batman” television spinoff series centered on the Gotham police department is on indefinite hold, Matt Reeves confirmed during an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.
HBO Max announced the series in July 2020, with “The Batman” filmmaker Reeves and “Boardwalk Empire” creator Terence Winter at the helm of the project.
Winter exited the project in November 2020 and was replaced by Joe Barton in January 2021. Rumors of creative differences circulated around Winter’s exit, and Reeves now confirmed HBO Max did not see eye-to-eye on the original plan for the show.“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,” Reeves said. “We’re not really doing that.” Reeves said the original plan for the Gotham PD series was to take inspiration from Sidney Lumet’s “Prince of the City” and center the show on a corrupt Gotham cop.
The series was set one year before “The Batman,” as the Gotham police force must reckon with the emergence of Batman and its own corruption.“It wasn’t going to be a Batman story, it was going about about this corrupt cop,” Reeves said. “And it was going to be about how the worst gang in Gotham were the GCPD.
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