‘The Batman’ Director Shares Deleted Scene Featuring Barry Keoghan as Joker

Savas Abadsidis March 28, 2022

The Batman director Matt Reeves shared a deleted scene from the Warner Bros. blockbuster Thursday featuring actor Barry Keoghan as Joker.

The previously teased scene shows Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader talking to Keoghan’s Joker at Arkham Asylum.

The Hollywood Reporter:

In the theatrical cut, the Joker doesn’t show up until the very end of the three-hour film, when he has a chat with a newly incarcerated Riddler.
Reeves then elaborated on the Silence of the Lambs-like sequence where Batman seeks the help of another killer mastermind to understand his current prey.

“What’s interesting is that the reason that Joker’s in the movie is there was actually another scene that was earlier,” Reeves explained previously to IGN. “And because the movie is not an origin tale for Batman, but it’s his early days, it really is an origin tale for the Rogue’s Gallery’s characters. And for me, I think [it’s] this idea that the Joker is not yet the Joker, but they already have this relationship.”
“The scene that was not in the movie, the scene that this is really the companion to, which is actually a really cool scene that will release at some point, it’s a scene where Batman is so unnerved because the Riddler is writing to him,” Reeves said. “And he’s like, ‘Well, why is this guy writing to me?’ And he figures he’s got to profile this killer.

“He goes to see another killer that he’s clearly had an experience with in these first two years. And this killer in this story is not yet the character that we come to know, right? So everybody’s in their infancy,” he continued. “So in the comics, these characters often declare their alter egos in response to the fact that there’s a Batman out there. And so here, we have a Joker who’s not yet the Joker.”