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News Variety Reports Robert Pattinson is the new Batman

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Alright.... This trailer grabbed my attention quite a lot. Batman working with the cops, actually hinting towards his Detective description. Nice.
And that last shot of Bruce..... I don't mind this take on Batman at all. Someone more maniacal from what we see here.
 
Not really surprising at all. Warner Brothers has spoken out against VOD early releases as opposed to theatrical releases, which is why Tenet and Wonder Woman are still committed for theatrical releases.

I just can't see how big budget movies can make their money back in 2020 with Covid still hammering the world. 2021 will likely be the same. I wonder if Tenant and WW84 will see re-releases once things are closer to normal.
 
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OK, that trailer was not quite what I was expecting, but I really liked it. Having this set in early in Batman's career makes it easier for me to accept a angrier, more violent version of the character, since he's still going to be finding himself.
I love the whole serial killer thriller vibe that they are giving off with it.
Since are now getting more sci-fi and fantasy stuff from WB/DC with characters like Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam, and The Flash, I don't mind a more grounded take on Batman. He's one of the easiest major DC characters to do that kind of a take on, since him and the vast majority of his villains and supporting cast don't have powers, and are mostly just regular people with a gimmick.
 
"He’s trying to figure out sort of what he can do that can finally change this place ()...and he’s seeing that he’s not having any of the effect that he wants to have yet, and that is when the murders start to happen. And then the murders begin to describe sort of the history of Gotham in a way that only reinforces what he knows about Gotham, but it opens up a whole new world of corruption that went much farther. But as that story starts to come out, without being an origin tale for him, it ends up being something that touches on his origins. So you start to see that, as it starts to describe this epic history of corruption in Gotham, that you start to understand, ‘Well, where did my family sit in that?’” - Matt Reeves

Anyone who's seen Joker, or played the Batman Telltale Game, knows where this is going... :crazy:
 
One thing I forgot to mention before I thought was pretty cool in the trailer was the way the corners of Catwoman's mask stuck up so they looked like the cat ears. It was a nice way to reference to cat ears withought actually being a mask with cat ears on it. The way it just goes down to her nose and top lip is a little odd though.
 
Okay I'm sold on Battinson! I really dug the trailer, and Pattinson looks like he's playing kind of a batshit crazy Bruce Wayne, and I love it! I literally DID NOT recognize Colin Farrell in that trailer either, and I love the casting of Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon.
 
I'm hoping they really don't do the obvious and have him say "I am vengeance", then "I am the night" later on, and then finally "I AM BATMAN" at the end.
 
"He’s trying to figure out sort of what he can do that can finally change this place ()...and he’s seeing that he’s not having any of the effect that he wants to have yet, and that is when the murders start to happen. And then the murders begin to describe sort of the history of Gotham in a way that only reinforces what he knows about Gotham, but it opens up a whole new world of corruption that went much farther. But as that story starts to come out, without being an origin tale for him, it ends up being something that touches on his origins. So you start to see that, as it starts to describe this epic history of corruption in Gotham, that you start to understand, ‘Well, where did my family sit in that?’” - Matt Reeves

Anyone who's seen Joker, or played the Batman Telltale Game, knows where this is going... :crazy:
Yes...you know, this looks like a version of Batman that might actually work in continuity with Joker - which is not to suggest that they actually plan any such thing...
 
Yes...you know, this looks like a version of Batman that might actually work in continuity with Joker - which is not to suggest that they actually plan any such thing...

Setting aside timelines or continuity (Joker being set in the 1980s, differing Alfreds etc), it’s hard not to imagine that WB must be willing to pay Phoenix a massive sum of money to play the role opposite their new Batman. Though I’m not sure he’d do it. But who knows?
 
Setting aside timelines or continuity (Joker being set in the 1980s, differing Alfreds etc), it’s hard not to imagine that WB must be willing to pay Phoenix a massive sum of money to play the role opposite their new Batman. Though I’m not sure he’d do it. But who knows?

The setting and cast other than Phoenix are fairly trivial considerations. I'm sure that he could play an older version of Fleck if required to.

The notion that Bruce's father was a rich, corrupt douchebag is a pretty perfect one. I mean, Bruce is so essentially psychologically twisted that this just piles the icing higher on the cake.
 
It may be legal for a bubble like a family of millionaires, or just one person willing to spend 4 grand to hire out a movie theatre for just them selves to hire out the venue and watch the flick.

Ridiculous.

No one is that stupid with money.
 
People prove that wrong daily. No matter how stupid I think humans can be..........someone can always take it to the next level.
There's a Garfield comic I frequently think of that goes "It's amazing what people would rather have than money." And honestly, yes, it still blows my mind at each level.
 
It may be legal for a bubble like a family of millionaires, or just one person willing to spend 4 grand to hire out a movie theatre for just them selves to hire out the venue and watch the flick.

Ridiculous.

No one is that stupid with money.

I’m pretty sure I remember an interview with Jon Bon Jovi where he said he rented out a cinema so he and some friends could watch the 1989 Batman film all by themselves
 
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