Pattinson/Reeves Batman Movie (Formerly Affleck Stand-Alone Film)

[AquaParade]

I don't think it's ego so much as creative people making creative decisions. Semantics maybe. The fact is most great artists don't want to repeat themselves, much less repeat someone else.
You have to consider that it you want to hire someone to adapt a cartoon for you, then you probably ain't getting Matt Reeves or anyone of his caliber.

I think just adapting B:TAS would be dull for me, dull for the creative team, and not capture what is special about the cartoon itself, which is the character design, the voice acting, the animation itself, the story boarding, etc..

If B:TAS had followed that principle, it wouldn't have existed in the first place. That show represented Batman but it was not a page-for-page translation of the comics. It was influenced by the Fleischer Superman cartoon - something that exists within it's own medium - as well as the Burton films, as much if not more than from the comics.

Hell, just bring back the animation itself, so we can appreciate what we love about it in the first place. Imagine that show with the level of animation displayed in the intro and keep the tissues handy.

It just seems like wanting things to always stay the same or go backwards would be the type of thinking that goes against all the amazing Batman evolutions we've seen through the decades. The character's tapestry is the most diverse of any character I can think of, and many of them beloved. Evolution is in the spirit of the character at this point.