Jeffrey Wright Teases Robert Pattinson's Batman and Says He Creates Three Distinct People
Like many of you, I’ve been incredibly interested in seeing what Robert Pattinson’s version of the Dark Knight will be like in director Matt Reeves’ The Batman. While a great-looking trailer for the film has been released, we still don’t really know what to expect.
During a recent interview, actor Jeffrey Wright offers some insight into the film and comments on Pattinson’s version of Batman in which he says the actor creates three distinct people. He explains:
"I loved the dynamic that Rob and I were able to create. I'm really excited for people to see what he does with this. He creates three distinct people. There's Rob, there's Bruce Wayne and there's the Batman and they're each distinct. It's really cool. Coming at you next spring."
He went on to talk about the cast working with Reeves to create their individual character specific to this film and trying to bring the filmmaker’s vision to life. That vision is a throwback to Detective Comics:
"We all made this film together, Rob and Zoë [Kravitz] and Colin [Farrell] and John Turturro, all of us working under Matt Reeves' direction, to create these characters and a Gotham that was specific to our film. And so whatever we do individually is kind of a reflection of what we're all doing and what Matt's vision is. And it's a very specific one. It's a bit more of a throwback to the DC, as in Detective Comics, of it all."
Wright then shared how much he loved the experience of making The Batman and that they went on and made a brilliant film:
"I loved it. I loved the script and I loved what we were doing. We were doing it in circumstances that I didn't love that were really very challenging. Once we shut down and when we got back to work in September it was tricky, particularly the isolation away from family over in London isolated in an empty hotel. But we made, I think, a brilliant film."
The Batman is a dark, noir-style film that will lean into Batman in his detective mode. Reeves said that it’s going to tell a deep and psychological story. This will be a “year two” story for Batman that acknowledges his origin and how it’s still something that he’s “majorly struggling” with.
There will be a series of murders and crimes that start taking place in Gotham and as Batman investigates those things, they begin to reveal the darkness of Gotham City to him.
The film also stars Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Alfred, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/The Riddler, Jayme Lawson as Bella Reál, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, and Peter Sarsgaard as Gil Colson. Gil Perez-Abraham (Orange is the New Black), Charlie Carver (Teen Wolf), and Max Carver have also been cast in undisclosed roles.
The Batman is now scheduled to hit theaters on March 4th, 2022.
Via: ComicBook