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"The Batman" director Matt Reeves has dished on what to expect from the upcoming superhero flick. Speaking to Yahoo! Movies, the helmer has said that he intends to tell a "very emotional story" in addition to being "a noir, detective version of Batman."

"It's my hope to tell a very emotional Batman story," Reeves says while promoting "War for the Planet of the Apes", "and I do see a very strong parallel between [Batman and Caesar] because they're both damaged characters who are grappling to the do the right thing in a very imperfect world. A world that's filled with all of the corruption that is human."

The helmer has stated that he's inspired by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock. But during the interview with Yahoo! Movies, he admits he's also inspired by Christopher Nolan's approach to genre filmmaking.

"What I love that [Nolan] did was that he took the genre seriously," Reeves says. "What studios are willing to make at the moment is a very, very narrow band of films. What I discovered is that this genre has the potential to be about something more. You can use the metaphors of the genre to talk about [a lot]."

"I think that the metaphors of both of the franchises ['Batman' and 'Planet of the Apes'] enable you to tell stories that have deep emotional resonance," he continues. "That's actually what excites me about it. It's interesting because I was obsessed with both as a child, and yet there is something potentially very adult about what you can explore under the cover of that fantasy. That is what draws me to it, and that's what I'm excited about."

"I think the other thing that I really admire in what [Nolan] did was knowing what it is to make a big studio film which often can fall into that sense of committee filmmaking where there's an anonymity to the point of view of the film," Reeves concludes.