Paul Dano, who starred in The Batman because the villain Riddler, is weighing in on superhero fatigue and has a constructive outlook on it.
Dano’s feedback come as The Flash, The Marvels, and most lately Madame Internet, introduced lower than stellar outcomes on the field workplace, with the actor saying that the fatigue can result in higher movies or various tales.
“It’s an attention-grabbing second the place all people has to go like, ‘OK – what now?’ Hopefully from that, any individual both breathes new life into [comic book movies], or one thing else blossoms which isn’t superheroes,” Dano instructed The Impartial in an interview selling Spaceman. “I’m certain there’ll nonetheless be some good ones but to come back, however I feel it’s type of a welcome second.”
He continued, “It’s a bigger factor, too. As quickly because the phrase ‘content material’ got here into what we do – which means making motion pictures or TV – it meant amount over high quality, which I feel was an enormous misstep. And I definitely don’t want that as a viewer or as an artist.”
Dano additionally theorized as to why Matt Reeves’ The Batman, regardless of being a superhero movie, was accepted by audiences.
“There are sufficient comedian guide motion pictures the place you simply know what you’re gonna get,” he mentioned. “Studying the script for The Batman, you knew it was an actual movie. Each sentence… that’s simply [writer/director] Matt Reeves.”
A sequel to The Batman is scheduled to be launched on October 3, 2025, with Robert Pattinson within the starring function.
