The Batman director Matt Reeves disclosed the reason for not including the scene which presented the viewers a closer look at Barry Keoghan’s Joker in the final cut of the film. The fans of the Robert Pattinson starrer superhero movie would be aware that Keoghan’s well-known character wasn’t introduced until the very end when the watchers were given sights of him in his cell at Arkham Asylum.

It was hinted to a great degree that the prisoner was in fact Batman’s rival and though a lot of viewers were convinced by their speculations it wasn’t confirmed until Reeves treated the observers to a near look at the character with the release of a deleted scene. The scene occurred before Batman tracked down the Riddler and turned to the Joker for information on the man who was toying with his thoughts. However Reeves eventually decided to leave the conversation on the cutting room floor.

Speaking in a director’s commentary released this week by Warner Bros. Reeves stated that the two actors involved did a brilliant job in the scene but felt it didn't help much in terms of moving the story along. He explained that when they were doing the final edit of the movie that scene even though he thought that Barry and Rob did such a cool scene together it was one of those things which really wasn’t necessary according to the narrative.

He continued speaking that the audience got everything that Barry was telling him that Joker was telling him over the course of the movie and given the great length of the movie cutting the moment out ultimately helped the story. Although he clarified again that he always admired the work that Barry and Rob did in the scene.

Reeves gave an explanation for why the sequence was written in the first place. It was because the creators wanted Batman to get into the head of Riddler who was the serial killer. To accomplish this Batman would go to Arkham to speak to another serial killer who the writers called in the script the ‘unseen prisoner.’

For Reeves what he wanted to do in trying to launch a new Gotham was to have it be as if all of the characters that the viewers knew in Gotham already existed and here they have a version of this character that was not yet the Joker but was going to become the Joker. He also wanted Batman to have had an experience with him that put him in Arkham. Though Reeves has revealed that the Joker somehow existed in Pattinson's Batman world but it has not yet been announced whether or not he will be the main villain in the sequel.