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The first complete trailer for ‘The Batman’ has Robert Pattinson in the iconic lead role and was released on Saturday as part of the DC FanDome virtual fan event, reports Variety.
In the 2 minutes 38 seconds trailer, the film deserves praise for raising the “dark” element with plenty of violence. In the clip, which depicts Gotham City covered in gloom and perpetually visible in a shade of grey, the Cape Crusader packs a punch and much more. And, Batman even states in the trailer quite ominously, “It’s not just a call… It’s a warning.”
Robert Pattinson said this version of the Caped Crusader is a person who is a “bit out of control”.
“He doesn’t have as much control over his personality, like the delineation between when he’s Batman and when he’s Bruce is not so clear... In other kinds of iterations, he really knows what he’s doing, when he’s putting on the cowl,” the actor said at the Fandome event.
In a Gotham City saturated in rain and gloom, Pattinson as a Batman, just a year into his reign as a costumed vigilante, attacks his enemies with a visceral, unhinged brutality that past live-action Batman movies never quite reached.
The trailer opens with the arrest of the Riddler, but although the role is played by Paul Dano, director Matt Reeves keeps the character’s face hidden throughout the trailer, suggesting some kind of shocking reveal.
Like the teaser that debuted during last year’s DC Fandome, this trailer only hints at the underlying story of “The Batman,” but Dano’s Riddler is clearly the main antagonist driving it, as a serial killer who leaves cryptic clues with his victims and holds a special fixation on Batman.
Instead, the trailer provides a more extensive first look at two other central characters. First among them is Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, who, true to comic-book form, has a penchant for hiding in plain sight in a series of wigs and is curious about the man behind Batman’s trademark cowl.
‘The Batman’ is the first iteration in the larger Batman franchise to lead with Catwoman’s introduction, matching the character’s place in the comic books as one of the most important figures in his life.
“I don’t want her to be an idea, you know, I want her to be a real human being in a real situation in a real city trying to survive and reacting to her own pain,” Kravitz said about the character in the Fandome panel with Pattinson and Reeves.
The original trailer for the film — released over a year ago at 2020’s DC FanDome event — offered only a mere glimpse of the movie, based on the small amount of footage that Reeves was able to film before Covid-19 caused production to shut down in March 2020. Filming was also forced to
pause again in September that year, just a few days after production had started up again when Pattinson tested positive for Covid, according to The Verge.
Scheduled to be released in March 2022, the film is the latest take on the character and sees a plethora of familiar villains, including Paul Dano as Riddler, Zoe Kravitz as Cat woman, and Colin Farrell as the Penguin. On the good side, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon and Andy Serkis as faithful butler, Alfred.
