Update: Robert Richardson will not serve as cinematographer on ‘The Batman’. “I’m not shooting The Batman. …I have never met with [director] Matt Reeves,” says Richardson. “I woke up this morning to a slew of text messages, ‘Congratulations, I didn’t know you were shooting Batman.’ I was highly perplexed,” said Richardson. “The closest part of reality is that when Ben Affleck was going to direct, I was going to shoot. But I don’t know how that got moved into this space.”
Matt Reeves’ upcoming ‘The Batman’ has found its director of photography in frequent Tarantino-collaborator Robert Richardson, reports DiscussingFilm. You can see their tweet below.
Cinematographer Robert Richardson (‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, ‘Kill Bill Vol 1’) has joined the crew for Matt Reeves’ ‘THE BATMAN’. (EXCLUSIVE) pic.twitter.com/I98JDoP21r
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 18, 2019
Richardson most recently worked on ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, with other credits including ‘Kill Bill’, ‘The Aviator’, ‘Inglorious Basterds’, ‘Shutter Island’, ‘Hugo’, ‘Django Unchained’, ‘World War Z’, ‘The Hateful Eight’, and ‘A Private War’.
‘The Batman’ will see Robert Pattinson don the cape and cowl for ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ director Matt Reeves. It will hit theaters in June 2021.