For a film a couple of millionaire who clothes up like a bat to fight a riddle-loving serial killer, it’s nonetheless apparent that Matt Reeves’s The Batman is meant probably the most “realistic” (you recognize, comparatively) cinematic tackle the Dark Knight thus far. That begins by setting the film at the beginning of Bruce Wayne’s crimefighting profession, earlier than he’s a longtime superhero with the world’s most tricked-out, AI-controlled automobile and high-tech devices. But it seems The Batman’s going to go a lot additional than that.

In an interview with Esquire UK, Reeves mentioned how the film will deal with the Batmobile and the hero’s Batcave headquarters, which may have their very own considerably grounded origins. For the previous, The Batman’s going to lean into Bruce creating it himself—however with out all information and know-how that he’ll achieve all through his future profession: “The Nolan films established the Batmobile as a tank, which was a brilliant idea,” Reeves says. “But I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if this guy is a loner and a gearhead and fashioning these things by himself, taking parts of other cars and kit cars?’ So it’s recognizable as a car this time. But it’s like a muscle car. One that he’s made himself.”

Personally, I’m undecided I might describe the Tumbler from the Dark Knight trilogy as good, however I’m an enormous fan of a younger, indignant, troubled Bruce Wayne sitting within the Bat-cave, delivery in all kinds of vehicles, after which kit-bashing them collectively into probably the most highly effective automobile he could make whereas he’s nonetheless looking for his footing (and ethos) as Batman. You can actually get a way of the beast he inbuilt The Batman’s second trailer, the place it bursts out of the flames in pursuit of the Penguin.

And talking of the Batcave, it has its personal distinctive, however equally grounded, idea. From Reeves: “The new Batcave is based on a secret underground railway that still exists in New York. The idea being that some of these wealthy industrialist families had private train cars at the turn of the century. So the Batcave is actually in the foundation of this tower. It was [another] way of saying, ‘How can we root all these things in things that feel real, but also extraordinary?’”

Man, I’m actually trying ahead to seeing a brand new Batcave. Like Batman’s origin story, they’ve all roughly felt like the identical concept that’s been executed barely in another way—which is okay, because it comes straight out of the comics, however I very a lot admire Reeves’ try and shake issues up. A Bat-Abandoned-Subway-Tunnel sounds prefer it has a ton of visible and artistic potential, though I could identical to the picture of seeing Alfred serving tea in a dirty, graffiti-covered subway practice.

Goodness is aware of what else Reeves is doing to different Bat-icons within the film, however not less than we all know The Batman may have loads of time to discover each side of Bruce Wayne’s burgeoning profession. The movie premieres in theaters on March 4.

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