Robert Pattinson said that he wasn’t acquainted with Bruce Wayne/The Batman ‘s detective facet earlier than signing directly to play the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves’ ” The Batman .”

“I watched a hard cut of the movie on my own. And the primary shot is so jarring from every other ‘Batman’ film that it’s just form of a totally one of a kind tempo,” Pattinson said in a March 2022 cowl tale for GQ , released on Tuesday.

He persisted: “It became what Matt became announcing from the first assembly I had with him: ‘I need to do a ’70s noir detective story, like ‘The Conversation.’ And I kind of assumed that intended the mood board or some thing, the look of it. But from the first shot, it is, Oh, this definitely is a detective tale.”

Pattinson said that he feels “like an fool” for being oblivious to Batman’s recognition in the comics as a skilled sleuth.
“I didn’t even recognise that Batman changed into ‘the arena’s greatest detective’; I hadn’t heard that in my life earlier than — however it certainly plays,” he said, explaining that this film indicates Batman fighting but also talking with the police force.

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“The Batman,” starring Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, is ready for launch on March 4. The star-studded forged includes Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman , Paul Dano as the Riddler, Colin Farrell as Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon, and Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth.

In previous interviews, Reeves has stated that the movie may be stimulated through creator Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli’s “Batman: Year One” comic, which facilities on the titular character’s early days as a vigilante.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published in January 2019, the director said that his version of the often-informed tale of the superhero will center on Batman “in his detective mode.”

“The comics have a history of that,” Reeves stated. “He’s purported to be the world’s best detective, and that is no longer always been a part of what the films had been. I’d love this to be one where while we cross on that journey of tracking down the criminals and looking to remedy a criminal offense, it’s going to allow his individual to have an arc in order that he can undergo a metamorphosis.”

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