The Batman Had A Bigger Deleted Scene With That Spoilerific Cameo Character
This article contains spoilers for The Batman
Those who have seen The Batman already (and they should) will be familiar with a certain cameo later in the film. Yes, it's that one. As much as the movie itself seems to want to play coy about the whole thing, not even giving the character a proper shout-out in the end credits. But most of those who saw the scene knew who they were hearing, and it turns out there was almost more.
In the latter half of The Batman, the camera cuts to a shot inside of Arkham Asylum, where the now-imprisoned Edward Nashton/Riddler (Paul Dano) resides following his capture. As he wallows in self-pity (even though this was basically part of his plan), he hears the voice of another prisoner in the cell next to his, played by Eternals star Barry Keoghan. While offering some deranged words of encouragement and flashing a glimpse of his painfully disfigured face, audiences slowly get clued into the notion that this is probably the most famous Batman villain of all, the Joker.
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The Joker tease kind of calls back to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, which similarly spent its first movie on another villain before adding a little glimpse at what's to come in the follow-up. But while this character got very little screen time, and was even credited as «Unnamed Arkham Prisoner,» it turns out that there was actually more planned for him. According to The Batman director Matt Reeves during an interview with Collider, there's even a deleted scene featuring an interaction between Keoghan's proto-Joker and Robert Pattinson's own Bruce Wayne/Batman. But apparently, he didn't think the scene fit the already nearly 3-hour runtime and
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