Oh, Sebastian Stan … he tells Variety that walking onto the set of "The Batman: Part II" gives him the feeling that he might be making "The Godfather: Part II." His exact words.
I go to set sometimes and I look around and I’m like, I think we’re making fucking ‘Godfather Part Two,’ I really don’t want to raise it up, but I do feel like it’s going to be a payoff.
He doesn't want to raise it up, but he does. He raised it. You cannot say "I really don't want to compare this to the greatest sequel ever made" and then compare it to the greatest sequel ever made, and expect the second half of the sentence to be politely ignored.
Let's tackle what's being claimed here. Coppola's 202-minute masterpiece was this sprawling look at the moral rot of an immigrant family across fifty years, with De Niro and Pacino at their peak. Matt Reeves is making a detective noir about a billionaire in a bat suit, wih a rubber cape, who might be fighting a man with a coin.
I like Reeves, and although I had mixed feelings about "The Batman," it was the best-looking comic book movie of the last decade, and Pattinson is committed in a way most people in that suit aren't. Still, none of that makes it Fredo on the boat in Havana.
Oh, Sebastian Stan … he tells Variety that walking onto the set of "The Batman: Part II" gives him the feeling that he might be making "The Godfather: Part II." His exact words.