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In a profile for GQ published on Tuesday, star Robert Pattinson pulled back the curtain for Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated installment in the Warner Bros. DC superhero franchise. The film, due out in early March, wastes no time gripping viewers, says the actor, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
“I watched a rough cut of the movie by myself. And the first shot is so jarring from any other Batman movie that it’s just kind of a totally different pace,” Pattinson told GQ. “It was what Matt was saying from the first meeting I had with him: ‘I want to do a ’70s noir detective story, like The Conversation.’ And I kind of assumed that meant the mood board or something, the look of it. But from the first shot, it’s, Oh, this actually is a detective story.”
Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne will be different from other big-screen incarnations of the (by day) billionaire playboy, the actor explained, saying “he’s kind of a weirdo as Bruce and a weirdo as Batman, and I kept thinking there’s a more nihilistic slant to it. Because, normally, in all the other movies, Bruce goes away, trains, and returns to Gotham believing in himself, thinking, I’m going to change things here. But in this, it’s sort of implied that he’s had a bit of a breakdown.”
The Batman will feature a Gotham in the grips of hell, overrun with crime and despair. But, unlike other Batman films, the character is not hailed as a hero or the answer to prayers.
It also sounds like Bruce Wayne will be far more damaged in the film, his emotional state clearly unhealthy, the actor revealed.
“All the other stories say the death of his parents is why Bruce becomes Batman, but I was trying to break that down in what I thought was a real way, instead of trying to rationalize it,” Pattinson told GQ. “He’s created this intricate construction for years and years and years, which has culminated in this Batman persona. But it’s not like a healthy thing that he’s done. Almost like a drug addiction.”
The Batman is due in theaters March 4.
