Batman: Robert Pattinson trailer brings fear and explosions in 2022

Just over a year ago, director Matt Reeves took the virtual stage at the DC FanDome to present a Batman universe reimagined with Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne in the center. The pandemic wreaked havoc on The batmanrelease date, but finally, on Saturday, just a few months before the DC comic book movie opens in theaters, Reeves returned to the FanDome to show a new full trailer for the film, giving it a dark but more clear of how a younger Bruce Wayne is dealing with the rise of Riddler (Paul Dano), Penguin (Colin Farrell) and Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz).

Located in Gotham City, The batman find Bruce, with a retro Batmobile, a faster Bat-motorcycle and a costume that could be made of weapons. – charting the waters of a crime-infested world. At the top of the movie, The Riddler appears to be on a killer kick, and as Reeves and co-author Mattson Tomlin have said many times, the streak of serial killers will likely put Batman’s detective skills to use.

“No one has ever ground it in the way Year one “Reeves said on the FanDome panel, referring to the highly influential comic by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli.” Getting straight to a young Batman, not being an origin story, but referring to his origins and shaking him to the core. “

For Pattinson, what fascinated him about this version of the character was “the delineation of when is Batman and when is Bruce. In other versions, he really knows what he’s doing when he puts on the hood. It’s a little out of control. He hasn’t really defined what Batman is. He wears it every night. He is not sleeping. He’s turning into some kind of weird creature. “

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From there, we got a glimpse of many glimpses of this new style of Batman, which differs greatly from the big screen spectacle of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and the more mythical take on Zack Snyder’s character. Reeves shoots his Batman on an extreme widescreen and in raw cinematic quality, almost in black and white. When a blast of sun or a splash of fire breaks into the trailer later, the entire frame can be consumed by oranges; Whatever this movie offers, there will be no shortage of penetrating visuals.

The drama, while grim, is offset by the madness of the villains. Having two crimelords and a femme fatale in Selina Kyle from the beginning (ahem) gives the movie the same feel as Batman: The Animated Series. That may be by design: Tomlin has told Polygon that BTAS it was his path to Batman in the first place, and Reeves is currently planning a spiritual sequel to the series with JJ Abrams and original creator Bruce Timm.

If the trailer has little content, they are clues to the bigger picture of this movie and the possible new franchise. We don’t know much about this new Bruce or the motivation of the villains or the direction the plot is ultimately going. But here’s what we do know: This isn’t your grandfather’s Batsignal. “It’s not just a call,” says Pattinson’s Batman in the trailer. “It is a warning”.

The batman hits theaters and only in theaters on March 4, 2022.