DCU: Why Bringing Superman into Reeves’ Bat-Verse isn’t a problem

2. Merging Battinson into the DCU is seamless

Continuity is something not associated with DC Studios pre-James Gunn and Peter Safran era.

Since Man of Steel, Warner Bros.’ DC films had muddled around inconsistent continuity at best. If The Flash was any indication of what’s to come, there’s a chance fans aren’t going to be flocking to the movies to see a DC film. Safran says that the DCU will have a built-in continuity that will make the movies and heroes easy to follow. One way to do that is to use a Batman that fans already know: Robert Pattinson.

James Gunn and Peter Safran can build their DCU around Matt Reeves’ Batman. No matter what history Reeves establishes, Gunn and Safran can use it. It can only help add depth to the type of Batman they want to feature in The Brave and the Bold.

We know very little about Batman the Brave and the Bold. What we do know, however, is that Safran and Gunn want the film to be a story about Bruce and Damien’s relationship. This means, they’ll need an older Batman, in his 30s, who’s been fighting crime for a while — that’s Battinson.

After Reeves’ trilogy concludes, the DCU can give us a time jump with Robert Pattinson’s Batman being the seasoned vet who gets an assassin-trained son dropped into his lap.