From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest has made a movie called

The Batman, although some of us have been calling it,

Batman Year 2. The film also feels like it falls into a kind of film he's been doing for the last

decade or so. Films are about people finding their humanity in the apocalypse, be it the Simeon Flu,

or Cloverfield, or in Gotham City.

My guest is director Matt Rees Metz, a pleasure to have you here.

Thank you so much for doing this.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Let's talk about that though.

I mean, you really, I mean, we go Cloverfield, let me in in the Planet of the Apes films you've done.

They really are about people who kind of find themselves in the midst of the worst possible circumstance.

I have a high level of anxiety, and I guess I'm drawn to stories that it's an interesting

thing.

I mean, I'm sort of joking, but I'm not, which is that there's something about the fun part

of the, not fun part, but to me almost the therapeutic or the engaging part of the

creative process for me is to find some way to express what's going on internally. And I do have

a tremendous amount of anxiety. And while in certain ways, I think, you know, they seem like

extreme, although interestingly, so many people talking to us about the simian flu

and how, you know, with the pandemic, how weird, even just that idea to look back at those movies now,

it's sort of strange. But, you know, there's a heightened nature to them, but there's, for me,

there's some truth in, at least in how I feel about, I guess, the state of the world.

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