The success Reeves has had delivering big-budget crowd-pleasers that also turn a tidy profit makes him attractive to from a studio standpoint.
The news that Ben Affleck would step down as director of The Batman may have come as a surprise to some, but it wasn’t exactly without warning.
The question now is: Who will step in to fill Affleck’s shoes as director?
Reeves is a solid choice for the studio, as he has demonstrated a knack for delivering character-driven genre films since the aforementioned Cloverfield in 2008.