Reeves has since revealed that the character, performed by actor Barry Keoghan, is The Joker.
An earlier scene between Robert Pattinson’s Batman and the character on the jail was minimize, in line with Reeves, who mentioned all this on director’s commentary for “The Batman.”
“Lots of people ask me, ‘Is that this a arrange for an additional film?’ and to be trustworthy it actually is not,” Reeves says within the commentary. “This for me was monitoring as a result of Paul and The Riddler was within the motion of the third act in a really specific approach, and the final we might seen him he was saying ‘Increase!’ in his window because the bombs went off, and we hadn’t but seen him absorb the truth that Batman had been in a position to pull issues again from the brink and that his plan had not performed out, I actually wished to see the top of that arc for Riddler.”
Reeves continued: “In order that was vital, truly, to the ending of the film and to the ending of the Riddler’s arc as nicely. What we’ll do with these characters sooner or later stays to be seen, nevertheless it was by no means meant to be an Easter egg scene, to say like, ‘Oh guess who we’re utilizing within the subsequent film.’ It was meant to be one thing scrumptious for the viewers to kind of expertise these two characters assembly, and in reality for the Unseen Prisoner to say to him, ‘Riddle me this,’ which is in fact proper out of ‘Batman’ 66.”