HELLO 'The Batman'

HELLO 'The Batman'

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!

#TheBatman#CameraTesthttps://t.co/M1tAE2aTA1

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) February 13, 2020

Black and white version so that you can see better

The suit is incredible. 🦇 pic.twitter.com/7KSqDIrIUr

— patrick tomasso (@imPatrickT) February 13, 2020

VIDEO: Great 18min Interview With Robert Pattinson

VIDEO: Great 18min Interview With Robert Pattinson

Love this! Grab a cuppa get comfortable and enjoy 18mins of Rob

Click HERE or on the pic below to watch

Robert Pattinson talks about the success of The Lighthouse, A24's impact on the industry, diving back into fan frenzy with The Batman & MORE!

Robert Pattinson talks about the success of The Lighthouse, A24's impact on the industry, diving back into fan frenzy with The Batman & MORE!


GREAT interview with The Playlist while Rob is promoting The Lighthouse.

An excerpt:

I moderated a Q&A last night with Robert and Max [Eggers] and Robert kept saying that if he didn’t think you were wet enough he would take the hose and spray it on you. 

I mean, even if I was the most patient person and this was my job, if my director kept doing that, it might annoy me a bit. I mean, it’s kind of fun. It’s like anything which is these extreme things to react to it allows for [a] more extreme performance and Roberts one of the only people I’ve ever worked with who never says… I’ve never done a movie like this where you were never told to tone it down, ever. It provokes a really kind of primal instinct in you when you’ve got a fire hose in your face and you’re kind of like, I don’t know, you really rage against it. It’s kind of fun.

Outside of “Good Time,” I think this is, for lack of a better word, the most “passionate” character you’ve had? It’s the most angry that I’ve seen you on screen ever, maybe? At least for more than one scene. When I asked Robert about that, he thought it was because no one has offered you a role like this before. Do you agree with him? Or do you feel like you found something in this film? 

I mean it is a quite unusual role. There’s a couple of speeches at the end when there are two kind of key moments when the character is so drunk he can’t distinguish whether he is himself or the person that he’s talking to. I was like, “O.K., so that’s the level of drunk and it’s pretty high.” And then a few of the last scenes when he’s just really, really losing his mind and they were just so funny and sort of wild and you just knew that you could feel how much you needed to rev yourself up for it and I don’t know. I guess, yeah, I guess it’s just the part really. I mean there’s very few scenes where people, yeah, where people do like rage for a sustained period of time. But I think it’s one of the most fun things to play. I’ve always been sort of on the lookout for it, but it’s actually quite rare to find.

This movie is definitely rare, in many ways, but it’s exciting how well it’s doing at the box office. I don’t know if you’ve seen, but the numbers for the expansion are fantastic. Does that give you hope that in this era of blockbusters, these sorts of movies will keep getting made? 

I think it’s incredible. I mean, I’ve done some weird movies. [Laughs.] And this is definitely [a] pretty weird movie and to see that there’s a hunger for it. And I mean it’s pretty, it’s great. And hopefully, it’s a harbinger of where things are going to go in the movie industry. I just always look at movies that are coming out. Like I was talking about this with [producer] David Crane about movies and things like “Existenz” and stuff like that. They could be an art-house movie that was also mainstream and that will be wonderful for me because that’s exactly the type of movies I want to make. But yeah, seeing people go to it and be excited about it? It’s sort of a strange kind of event movie, like a certain uber of people.

Click HERE to read the interview in its entirety.

Source: The Playlist

Zoë Kravitz cast as Catwoman in Robert Pattinson's The Batman!

Zoë Kravitz cast as Catwoman in Robert Pattinson's The Batman!



GAAAAHHH!!! Major casting alert!

pic.twitter.com/Bi9bY5FhWb

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) October 14, 2019

Excerpt from Variety:

“Big Little Lies” star Zoe Kravitz has been tapped to play Catwoman, the antiheroine and sometime love interest of the Caped Crusader, in Matt Reeves’ upcoming “The Batman.” 

Kravitz will star opposite Robert Pattinson as Batman. 

In recent weeks, the role came down to Kravitz, Zazie Beetz of “Atlanta,” “Deadpool 2” and “Joker,” “Baby Driver’s” Eiza Gonzalez and Oscar winner Alicia Vikander. Ultimately, Kravitz won out, despite some worry about scheduling issues with “Fantastic Beasts.” 

Pre-production on the Warner Bros.-DC Comics pic is expected to start this summer. No official start date has been set, although insiders tell Variety that filming could start in late 2019 or early 2020. “The Batman” is scheduled to hit theaters June 25, 2021.

Excerpt from THR:

The decision came down over the weekend after a rigorous testing process that saw saw Ana de Armas, Ella Balinska, Eiza Gonzalez and Kravitz read with Robert Pattinson, who is set to play the Dark Knight. The testing process occurred over the first week of the month, and the four were then narrowed to two late last week.

I'm sooooooooo ready!!! Are you into it???

CASTING: Jeffrey Wright and Jonah Hill in talks to join Robert Pattinson in The Batman

CASTING: Jeffrey Wright and Jonah Hill in talks to join Robert Pattinson in The Batman

Rumors abound as the trades report on casting for The Batman! The Hollywood Reporter announced that Jeffery Wright (Westworld, The Hunger Games franchise, James Bond franchise) is in talks to play Commissioner Gordon and Variety reports that Jonah Hill is being considered for a secret role in The Batman. - possibly the Riddler or Penguin.

Nothing is set in stone but that hasn't stopped the fanart from thriving!

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You got @jonahhill looking at his recent follows like...... 👀😅🐧🐧🐧 If he is playing someone I do think it will be 🐧 or I'm wrong and he is the new Batman 😜

A post shared by Bosslogic (@bosslogic) on Dec 13, 2018 at 4:15am PST

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VIDEO: Spiderman talks Batman! Tom Holland shows support for Robert Pattinson

VIDEO: Spiderman talks Batman! Tom Holland shows support for Robert Pattinson

So cute!

“... my friend Robert Pattinson. He’s going to kill it as Batman.” - Tom Holland via @tomothyholland pic.twitter.com/WwfiryTvri

— 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 (@PurelyPattinson) September 3, 2019

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks to Variety about The Lighthouse, Christopher Nolan, and of course, The Batman!

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks to Variety about The Lighthouse, Christopher Nolan, and of course, The Batman!

Hiiiii Rob! This is the video interview that accompanies those amazing pics and the interview from Variety. Enjoy! I know you will. :)))

The Batman Talks!

It's not like we needed anymore verification... but Rob talking about playing Batman is the best! Is it 2021 yet?

Robert Pattinson couldn’t stop Googling himself. In mid-May, the 33-year-old actor found himself obsessively refreshing his phone on a flight from Los Angeles to the south of France. Pattinson was headed to the Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of his new movie, “The Lighthouse,” just days before he was set to start shooting the next Christopher Nolan film, “Tenet.” But someone had tipped off the press about another top-secret project, one the entire world was now reporting on: Pattinson had been cast as the next Batman.

The stories were premature — Pattinson hadn’t even auditioned yet — and he was horrified that all the chatter would spook Warner Bros. executives into not hiring him. “When that thing leaked, I was f—ing furious,” Pattinson recalls on a recent rainy afternoon in London. “Everyone was so upset. Everyone was panicking from my team. I sort of thought that had blown up the whole thing.”

 

 Read the rest of this great article HERE!
 

NEWS RECAP: Robert Pattinson's The Batman finds a cinematographer, gets support from Jaden Smith, Catwoman speculation + MORE

NEWS RECAP: Robert Pattinson's The Batman finds a cinematographer, gets support from Jaden Smith, Catwoman speculation + MORE  

This is a collection of some small news and tidbits for The Batman that I've looked at and wanted to share. Nothing huge regarding Rob but still all fun and interesting.

First up, legit news via The Playlist. Greig Fraser will be the cinematographer for The Batman. Some of his work includes Rogue One, Zero Dark Thirty, and Vice plus a previous film with Matt Reeves - Let Me In. His work is gorgeous. When I read he'd worked on Rogue One, many shots instantly came to mind that struck me when I first watched that film. Give it a watch or rewatch if you want to see what I'm talking about.

Hello, Mr. Fraser. 🦇

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) July 25, 2019

Batman producer, Michael E. Uslan, had some thoughts about anxious fans: “My position is this: trust the filmmaker and give the filmmaker, and the filmmaker’s vision, the benefit of the doubt. Then wait ’til you see the movie.” Click HERE to read more from his interview via ComicBook.

There's someone who's not anxious AT ALL. Jaden Smith. Excerpt from Rolling Stone:

RS: From one Batman fan to another, how do you feel about Robert Pattinson getting to play Batman? 

Jaden Smith: Oh my gosh, I don’t even know what to say. Amazing things are happening every day that you don’t even know. I don’t even know. I’m at a loss for words with how excited I am for him. It has to happen. It has to fucking happen. He will be the best Batman. I’m losing my fucking shit.

That's the attitude to have. I love it. We even have Michael Jackson's sons weighing in. Now, Prince on the right sounds belligerent. I brushed his entire opinion aside. But Blanket on the left is thoughtful and open. This amused me.



So the pressure is on! As if Matt, Rob, Warner Bros, etc. didn't know this. But Oscar winning composer and good friend of Matt Reeves, Michael Giacchino, wanted to make sure everyone had a reminder. He got the Comic Con crowd to lay it on thick just in case anyone was breathing easy for a day:

Nothing like a little encouragement, ⁦@m_giacchino⁩ ❤️🦇 pic.twitter.com/gfua51uaUL

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) July 18, 2019

All in good fun and support. :)

😘 https://t.co/7Bi80acdG1

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) July 21, 2019

Such a strange world we're in now...do our dark recesses even exist anymore? I leave you with Matt having cryptic fun on twitter and a Batman vid from Emergency Awesome speculating about Vanessa Kirby (who I love and totally see it) for Catwoman.

https://t.co/upEei0MUyF pic.twitter.com/cSN9HrGAvu

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) July 21, 2019

MOVIE NEWS: Robert Pattinson exits The Souvenir sequel, casting rumors spread about The Batman + MORE

MOVIE NEWS: Robert Pattinson exits The Souvenir sequel, casting rumors spread about The Batman + MORE

According to Indiewire, Rob will not be able to film Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir sequel. Production was slated for next month but as we know, Rob is filming Nolan's Tenet this summer, already in production.

A rep for Rob told Indiewire, "Despite Rob’s strong desire to do the film, scheduling proved impossible but he very much looks forward to working with Joanna on something down the line." No doubt he will. Rob never forgets his director bucket list.



Switching to The Batman, fansite, Geeks WorldWide, claims to have exclusive info on villains that will be in the film. Matt Reeves has already stated in The Hollywood Reporter that he will feature Batman's rogues gallery, a phrasing often used to describe Batman's many villains in the comics. It looks like Geeks WorldWide got a hold of the casting call sheet for the film. Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler and Firefly are on the list requesting actors of any ethnicity between various ages to play the roles.

You likely know Catwoman, famously played by Michelle Pfeiffer, The Penguin, played by Danny DeVito, and The Riddler played by Jim Carrey. Or I could be dating myself? Making presumptions about your interest in 90s Batman films? Firefly, I don't know at all. Do any of you? Beyond the comics, Firefly seems to have made appearances in video games.

We'll see if these rumors pan out and who will be cast in these iconic roles. Visit GWW for a little more description of the villains. For example, the "tight one piece" will be worn by The Penguin. ;) A fanboy on a Reddit thread had an interesting theory that I dig:

Catwoman is definitely going to need to have smoking' hawt chemistry with Battinson. I mean......



I'm putting all the responsibility on the actresses. Sorry, acting ladies. Look at the post labels. This is a fact. He can set the screen on fire all alone. Can you handle it? Can you bring more combustable elements?? I certainly look forward to the official casting news! Which won't be at Comic Con. :( *womp womp*

I'll leave you with another fanvid for The Batman. Can you name all the Rob films the fanboy pulled from? Of course you can. You got your Robology degree at ROBsessed University. Some folks are just getting started....



Sources: Indiewire | THR | GWW | Reddit | Fanart | Fanvid

The Batman director turns on the Bat-Signal aka tweets for the first time in 2 months + THR talks how Robert Pattinson got the job

The Batman director turns on the Bat-Signal aka tweets for the first time in 2 months + THR talks how Robert Pattinson got the job

Right on cue, Matt Reeves sent out this little tweet yesterday:

🦇🦇🦇 pic.twitter.com/2AaQaexvUF

— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) June 3, 2019

I love it. This is so wild. Have you been reading up on Batman? I only know the films so I'm reading beginning stuff when Batman was known as The Batman and "world's greatest detective" since that's what Reeves has signaled his focus will be.

Here's something else you might like to read. The Hollywood Reporter has an article talking about how the casting of Rob went down. We don't have any named sources so take this however you want it. I have a theory I developed when the 2nd confirmation happened. When we got the 1st confirmation from Variety weeks ago, it was from a WB source that knew Rob decided to say yes. Then, knowing that was Reeves choice, it was only a matter of time before the ink was dry. I think WB had Hoult as a backup and wanted to do screen tests just to settle themselves but it was really done when Rob said yes. I know that is a favorable take for Rob but come on. All takes here will be favorable to Rob.

Anywho...read this and ponder. What theories do you guys have?

From The Hollywood Reporter:

"Quick" Debates and Secret Screen Tests: How Robert Pattinson Became Batman 

Two weeks ago, a black jacket-clad Robert Pattinson faced flashbulbs and reporters at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his period drama, The Lighthouse. When one guest approached him at the reception and said, “I heard you were the new Batman,” he offered only a sly smile and stayed mum. 

In reality, Pattinson was not the Caped Crusader…just yet. Hours after his Cannes duties in designer duds, he would be on a plane to Los Angeles to face perhaps the biggest test of his acting career: putting on a Batsuit for director Matt Reeves, who is casting The Batman.

That test was officially passed Friday, when Warner Bros. announced that Pattinson had won the role. The decision was the culmination of an intense process that insiders describe as surprisingly quick. As opposed to most superhero casting efforts, which often include far-and-wide searches and dozens of screen tests for the likes of Superman or more recently, Spider-Man, the Batman process was notably smooth.

“It was quick,” says one Warners insider. “Quicker than normal.”

Reeves, who was hired to write and direct a new Batman movie in February 2017, was envisioning actors while penning the script, according to sources familiar with the filmmaker’s thinking. It helped that this new Batman needed to conform to a defined age bracket. He is written as around 30 years old, and the story is neither another rehashing of his origin nor the tale of a seasoned crimefighter ruling Gotham City. He is Bruce Wayne still trying to find his footing on his way to becoming the genius detective.

This, of course, eliminated Ben Affleck, as THR first reported back in July 2017. (Affleck and Warner Bros. denied the recasting at the time because the actor, who had played the role in Batman v Superman and Justice League, was to have headlined his own stand-alone movie that was sidelined when the studio began rethinking its superhero strategy.)

Reeves is said to have considered Pattinson, 33, early on in the process, says one source, even though no outreach was made. Reeves didn’t even know if the actor wanted the part. Since Pattinson shot to fame as a heartthrob vampire in the Twilight films, he has built a solid résumé in smaller, well-reviewed independent films like Good Time and Maps to the Stars. He has assiduously avoided big studio franchise films.

But that fact actually made him more attractive to Reeves and the executive team at Warner Bros. Specifically, Pattinson has not yet appeared in a Marvel Studios movie, and name-brand actors not working for the DC Comics rival are becoming few and far between. While there are no contract provisions prohibiting Marvel actors from appearing in DC/Warner Bros. movies and vice versa, execs believe that cross-pollination dilutes both brands and can cause confusion for audiences, especially from a marketing point of view.

Click HERE to keep reading on THR!