Colin Farrell is out doing press for Season 2 of SUGAR, and of course he’s going to be asked about THE BATMAN PART II. CF tells CINEMABLEND that he has read Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin’s entire script and describes it as “dark,” “terrifying,” “psychologically weighty,” and “nuanced.” Farrell was specific about just how much he’s in the film saying that he only appears in two scenes (One of which will be a doozy, just sayin’). Here’s the entire quote:
I got to read from the first to last page [of the script] and it’s really magnificent. I just think Matt Reeves is brilliant and he wrote, not only tonally, a really kind of dark and at times terrifying piece, and not only psychologically weighty and nuanced, but really feeling. It’s a really… There’s moments in it. It’s full of feeling. I just think he wrote kind of a contemporary genre masterpiece, really. I’m only in two scenes, which is great because it means I can enjoy the rest of the film.
Honestly, man, it’s so good. I’m so excited about it. I’m so excited for Matt and Dylan and Robert and the whole team.
Yes, people can say that he’s just doing actor-speak on an upcoming project and of course will go overboard to the praise. But this isn’t the only time he’s spoke of Reeves and Tomblin’s script so glowingly and others have as well. I can say that I know some people who know and have told me the exact same thing. I think we’re going to get a really special film with THE BATMAN PART II that, as someone in the know told me, “will blow people away.”
As far as only being in two scenes, makes sense. Not only did Farrell’s Oz Cobb damn near steal the show in THE BATMAN, but we just spent 8-plus hour with him in THE PENGUIN. And I’m sure we’ll see more of ‘ol Oz down the line in THE BATMAN PART III as he’s one of the core characters of Reeves’ THE BATMAN EPIC CRIME SAGA.
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