The Batman: Matt Reeves Says That GCPD Spin-Off Series Is Currently On Hold

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With The Batman now in theaters, a whole new path just opened for the DC Universe. Co-writer and director Matt Reeves already revealed that we can expect a spin-off series centered on Colin Farrell’s Penguin, and one more series which should be set in the Arkham Asylum.

But, there was also a spin-off series focused on GCPD (Gotham City Police Department), which was announced to be in development long before the premiere of The Batman. Although some fans said that the concept of the series sounds awfully familiar to Bruno Heller’s Gotham, a TV series that aired between 2014 and 2019 on Fox.

Still, that was the first spin-off series announced for the world of Pattinson’s Batman, but it seems like that series won’t happen, as Reeves recently said the series has been put on hold.

“One thing that we’re not doing that I was gonna do… So, there’s the Gotham police show, which, that one actually is put on hold. We’re not really doing that.” — Matt Reeves for Happy, Sad, Confused

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Starring Robert Pattinson in the titular role, The Batman follows Caped Crusader who is working with police lieutenant James Gordon in order to catch a serial killer known as Riddler. The movie is also starring Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell. Two sequels are planned, as well as two spin-off shows for HBOMax (Penguin TV series and Arkham Asylum series).

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.