The first live-action meeting of Batman and Superman came about thanks to a vision that Zack Snyder began but was unable to finish. When and how we will see the pair joining forces again is still up in the air. With the Snyderverse being left behind, Ben Affleck moving on from his Batman role, and Henry Cavill’s Superman return a possibility but in doubt, and Robert Pattinson seemingly poised to be the new long-term Bat on the block, would there be a chance of him teaming up with Krypton’s prodigal son? It is not something Matt Reeves wants to explore right now, but if it did happen, it would not be anything like Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

The first full reviews of The Batman are poised and ready to go once the embargo lifts on Monday, and from early whispers, there is a lot of good things heading the movie's way, with the dark, grounded and disturbing tone of the film being one of the big talking points of Robert Pattinson's debut. With that in mind, there has to be a question of whether a being like Superman could even work in that kind of world, and that is something that Reeves noted while discussing the subject of a possible crossover.

Reeves was asked whether Superman and indeed the other Justice League members existed somewhere in the new Batverse, and the director was clear that making a Batman movie and a world that Batman alone exists in is hard enough without having to consider other heroes immediately. He said, “I suppose it's not impossible to believe that somewhere down the line, they could connect to something else, but that was not my interest in this, and it's not my interest in what we would do in follow-ups at the moment either.”

Matt Reeves Has A Clear Vision For The Batman Franchise and It Doesn’t Seem To Include Other DC Heroes

While there is a big multiverse and crossover trend in the world of comic book movies, Matt Reeves clearly wants to concentrate on Batman and the characters of Gotham rather than attempting to pull in the entire Justice League just for the sake of it. When pressed as to whether he could and would include Superman in a sequel to The Batman, the director explained at length that he would only do it with a believable version of Superman, but for now, he has plenty to focus on with the world of Gotham as it is. He said:

"You mean if it could? Is that what you're saying? I mean, if something like that did happen, because I was very careful about ... To me, what I try to do is take ... I did this in the Apes films too, and even Cloverfield, this idea of taking the one fantastical element and then have everything around it, so it'll be as grounded as possible, so that it could feel ... I want it to feel emotionally real and to make everything feel very believable. In this movie, even further I think than what I did in those films, I tried to find the practical, believable version. If suddenly in the Batman world, you discovered that there was an alien that was Superman, there'd be a lot of shock. I mean, people would have to say, oh my God, and maybe that would be the one fantastical element.

But to be honest with you, that is not the intention at this point, to figure out how to make that come. Look, we should be so lucky that this is a world that people embrace and that they say, oh my God, we want to see what would happen when those things collide. I think if that challenge ever presents itself, it would be an exciting one to explore, but I'd have to try and do it through this lens. You know what I mean? And that is absolutely right, that at the moment, to me, this world is the place that I want to focus.”

With two spin-off shows, and a potential sequel or two to come in the world of The Batman, Matt Reeves is probably right to want to steer clear of complicating matters by bringing in other heroes from outside Batman’s home ground.