Don’t expect The Batman to take much more inspiration from the campy Batman series though, with the movie being described as a noir-driven story that picks up with a tortured Bruce Wayne around two years into his crime-fighting career.
Director Matt Reeves has cited several famous comic book arcs as inspiration for The Batman, including Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman: The Long Halloween and Darwyn Cooke’s Batman: Ego, which takes an introspective look at Bruce Wayne’s tortured relationship with his alter ego.
Drawing comparisons to both Batman: The Animated Series from the 1990s, the new Batmobile even manages to look like an updated, much more aggressive version of the one used in the 1960’s Batman series starring Adam West.
The Batman will pick up with a young Bruce Wayne who has become disheartened by the lack of impact he is having on crime in Gotham, when suddenly a series of murders occur at the hands of The Riddler.