Robert Pattinson Calls 'The Batman' a 'Sad Movie' Where Bruce Wayne Is a 'Weirdo'
08.02.2022 - 21:21
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Robert Pattinson is sharing some new details about The Batman!
The 35-year-old actor appears on the cover of GQ‘s March issue, where he discussed his role Matt Reeves highly-anticipated installment in the franchise and shared what fans can expected.
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“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,” he told the outlet. “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.”
The Good Time star explained that this iteration of the character will be different than others, 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 people of Gotham think that he’s just another symptom of how s–t everything is,” he continued. “There’s this scene where he’s beating everyone up on this train platform, and I just love that there’s a bit in the script where the guy he’s saving is also just like: Ahh! It’s worse! You’re either being mugged by some gang members, or a monster comes and, like, f–king beats everybody up! The guy has no idea that Batman’s come to save him. It just looks like this werewolf.”
The movie will also feature a more vulnerable, damaged Bruce Wayne.
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