These are unusual times for everyone, including Matt Reeves. Best known as the director of sci-fi action films like “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and as a creator of TV’s “Felicity,” he’s returning to television as an executive producer of the Amazon series “Tales From the Loop.”

That show, which was created by Nathaniel Halpern and released on Friday, offers a blend of speculative fiction and character drama (featuring Jonathan Pryce) as it tells interlocking stories set in a town that is home to an immense and enigmatic science experiment. In an unconventional twist, “Tales From the Loop” is adapted from paintings by the Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag.

Reeves is also the director and a writer of “The Batman,” the latest reboot of that DC comic-book vigilante, with Robert Pattinson in the title role. As with numerous other film productions, work on “The Batman” was suspended last month amid the coronavirus outbreak. Reeves, 53, has remained with his family in London, where they are sheltering in place.

In a phone interview on Tuesday, he said he was eager to get back to work while remaining mindful of more immediate priorities: “There are certain moments where you realize, OK, what do we have to do to make our loved ones and the people that we care about safe?”