Our newest take a look at Warner Bros. and DC’s The Batman is right here, and it re-introduces us to Robert Pattinson’s offended younger vigilante, in addition to shining a highlight on a couple of extra faces barely glimpsed within the unique trailer from final 12 months. But what different particulars can we uncover? Let’s take a more in-depth look.

The trailer opens with Gotham City PD participating in a rain-soaked raid on a diner. Seems a bit a lot, however they’re cops and they’re in Gotham City, so what else do you have to count on?

Especially when it’s revealed simply who it’s they (and Jeffrey Wright’s Jim Gordon, additionally briefly seen right here) are after within the diner. If you’ve been following Batman casting information you then’ll acknowledge this as our first unmasked glimpse at Paul Dano, who’s enjoying DC Comics’ villain the Riddler within the movie. For a lot of this trailer and the earlier one, his face was hidden behind a taped-up masks, and his willingness to associate with the police appears to counsel that the Riddler at the very least factored getting arrested into his thoughts video games.

If you didn’t acknowledge Dano nonetheless, the trailer a lot much less subtly beats you over the pinnacle with the data that that is The Bad Guy by a fairly immaculately introduced query mark-stamped foam on his cup of espresso. Kudos to both the diner workers the Riddler instructed to try this with, or to Eddie Nigma himself. It’s a little foolish, however given the tone of what we’ve seen of The Batman to date, embracing slightly of that comedian guide camp strikes a pleasant steadiness.

Gordon lights up the Bat-Signal, shining Bruce’s chosen icon into the (still-rain-soaked) Gotham skyline. “Fear is a tool,” Pattinson’s Bruce narrates. “When that light hits the sky, it’s not just a call. It’s a warning,” he threatens. All fairly normal Batman materials, to make sure, however the way in which this younger iteration of the character re-emphasizes what a menace he’s to the individuals he’s going after is seemingly an enormous a part of the most recent Bruce Wayne, who, it can’t be acknowledged sufficient, is actually, actually fairly mad on the state of the world he finds himself in. Dead mother and father’ll do this to you.

Speaking of Batman, it’s minimize right here to make it appear to be Bruce has simply been… moping about ready for the Bat-signal to come back in. The first trailer for the movie established fairly clearly that this Batman has been working with Gordon and the GCPD at the very least lengthy sufficient that individuals aren’t shocked when a dude wearing Bat-themed armor exhibits up at a criminal offense scene. Considering that crime scene within the first trailer noticed Riddler go away a puzzle explicitly for Batman, all this appears to tie into the villain getting himself “caught” as a option to get some alone time with the Dark Knight.

Batman’s menace concludes as we see an expanded model of the brutal struggle scene between him and a gang of clown-paint-wearing thugs, an apparent trace on the lengthy shadow of the Joker. Who in all probability isn’t on this film, contemplating the main focus we get on the Riddler and the Penguin afterward, however, Batman films do prefer to remind you that the Clown Prince of Crime is all the time lurking within the distance. Also established right here, briefly, is that Bruce’s snazzy swimsuit can undoubtedly take a couple of gunshots. Gee, as soon as once more, I’m wondering why.

Once once more, Riddler’s unmasked face is cleverly obscured from us as a GCPD interview room raises a blind to let Batman come head to head with the legal. “I’ve been trying to reach you,” Riddler whispers, as Bruce explodes, smashing the window and screaming “What have you done!?” at him. Presumably, at any time when this happens within the movie Batman and Riddler have been chasing one another for a bit, however nonetheless, the previous’s incapacity to regulate his feelings is one thing always strengthened all through this trailer.

Speaking of explosions, right here’s our first of many, as a constructing someplace in Gotham will get engulfed in flame. “This is a powder keg, and Riddler’s the match,” Batman warns.

We minimize to Bruce himself for the primary day trip of the Batsuit on this trailer, exterior of what seems to be the funeral for Don Mitchell Jr., Gotham’s mayor, whose homicide scene we noticed Batman go to with Jim Gordon within the first trailer. Riddler’s involvement with the killing means that the political upheaval of Gotham goes to be an necessary undercurrent within the film, given the connections there to a personality we all know mainly nothing about within the film but: Bella Reál, being performed by Jayme Lawson, who’s “a grassroots political candidate running for office in Gotham” in accordance with io9’s earlier sourcing. Bruce appears to be like over as a knee-high-booted foot slinks out of a automotive. Set footage from these scenes revealed that that is, after all, Zoë Kravitz’ Selina Kyle…

We minimize to a quick sequence of Batman and Catwoman getting shut to one another on a sunlit rooftop. “I can take care of myself,” Selina purrs as she strokes Batman’s chest.

Ample proof of which we get in a quick montage of Selina doing all her Catwoman issues: beating up dudes, driving bikes, disguising herself with a wig or two. And we’ll get extra of that later within the trailer.

“If this continues, it won’t be long before you have nothing left” warns Andy Serkis’ Alfred Pennyworth, as we minimize throughout a trio of attention-grabbing pictures: Colin Farrell’s Oswald Cobblepot, a.okay.a. The Penguin, looking throughout the Gotham dawn, Alfred himself in our very first take a look at the character, and Bruce, clad in shades, as he reads a newspaper, which you’ll be able to nearly make out has a headline about Mayor Mitchell’s loss of life.

Speaking of, Bruce eschews a extra typical whiteboard or notepad to only hang around shirtless and write his personal detective thoughts map in spray paint. The 5 spokes listed below are attention-grabbing: three are murders, it could appear, as one in every of them is Mayor Mitchell’s identify, becoming a member of Colson (Peter Saarsgard’s character, a District Attorney) and Savage (presumably no relation to DC Comics villain, Vandal Savage, who’s infamously fairly exhausting to kill). “Renewal is a lie” is attention-grabbing, and presumably pertains to Mayor Mitchell’s re-election marketing campaign, contemplating newspaper reviews have been painted with the phrase “Lies” by the Riddler on the mayor’s homicide scene. But maybe most attention-grabbing of all is the ultimate spoke “The Sins of my Father.” Given Thomas Wayne’s presence within the Gotham social elite earlier than his loss of life, connecting him right into a political corruption scandal could be fairly attention-grabbing—and much from the primary time a model of the Bat-mythos has tried to take the loss of life of the Waynes and switch into one thing extra than only a random mugging gone mistaken.

“I don’t care what happens to me,” Bruce says, presumably to Alfred—be aware he’s nonetheless acquired his Batman make-up on, right here, however isn’t truly within the swimsuit. Perhaps a flashback to his early days of attempting to turn out to be a vigilante, or one thing else?

“It’s only going to get worse for you,” Selina tells Batman, earlier than, effectively, it instantly does. We exhausting minimize to Batman leaping into an enormous brawl with thugs in some kind of facility—presumably, the Penguin’s thugs, as we see Bruce go to menace the legal earlier than he tells him to take it simple.

“You’re everything they say, ain’t you,” Penguin continues, as we minimize to Selina loading a gun on her bike, and a separate shot of her in a pink wig striding by way of a darkly lit occasion. We additionally see Batman combating throughout mentioned occasion, so perhaps the ability is much less industrial because it appeared a couple of moments in the past however is only a membership: extra particularly, Penguin’s iconic hideout from the comics, the Iceberg Lounge.

“Maybe we’re not so different… who are you under there?” Selina says, as we’re again on the sunlit rooftop we noticed Catwoman and Batman on earlier—a dialog seemingly interrupted, as we additionally briefly see Catwoman leap off the rooftop as Batman brawls with somebody.

Batman, no matter incarnation, actually doesn’t like weapons. Really, actually doesn’t like them.

After a repeat of his vengeance line from the primary trailer and some pictures of the new Batmobile roaring into motion, we get an attention-grabbing shot of a number of Gotham cops attempting to apprehend somebody as they leap from a really tall constructing in a gliding swimsuit. Odds are that this could possibly be Batman, and never simply because it’s the form of factor he usually does. In the primary trailer, we did see Batman scuffle with the police of their workplaces (presumably after the Riddler interrogation we noticed earlier), and escape from them by ziplining up a precariously excessive spiral staircase. This may, presumably, be the highest of a suitably very giant and very gothic GCPD constructing, couldn’t it?

Smash minimize to an enormous emergency providers presence exterior the constructing Mayor Mitchell’s funeral was happening in, this time at evening. We get a shot of Batman, caked in filth, that’s meant to look like he’s trying up on the helicopter we simply noticed scanning the scene, however it’s exhausting to say if that’s simply the trailer or truly within the movie itself.

“What’s black and blue, and dead all over?” The Riddler teases, as we minimize by way of a couple of extra pictures: a crowd watching a message from the Riddler (merely described as a serial killer) on the native information, Selina watching in horror as Batman wails on somebody, and Jim Gordon holding his gun up at Mitchell’s funeral—presumably on the bomb-strapped driver we noticed smash into mentioned funeral within the first trailer.

Just a few extra scant pictures: Batman main what seems to be a crowd of GCPD officers right into a waterlogged space with a flare, one other less-than-cryptic message from The Riddler (“I’ll see you in hell”), Batman being blasted again throughout the bomb menace at Mayor Mitchell’s funeral, and each Alfred and Selina trying horrified at one thing. Presumably, Bruce associated, as a result of that’s what he’s finest at, making individuals who care about him frightened on a regular basis.

The trailer concludes with an prolonged take a look at the automotive chase between the Penguin and the Batmobile we acquired a glimpse of within the first trailer. Penguin thinks he’s blown the Batmobile up, solely to be instantly confirmed mistaken when it comes slamming out of fireside and smoke and into the again of his automotive, upending it…

… leaving us with a really cool shot of a really offended Batman descending on his prey.

While our newest take a look at The Batman gave us loads of fireplace and fury, from all of the explosions to a frisson of Bat-Cat vitality from our lead heroes, it’s principally an iterative look of what to anticipate from Matt Reeves’ spin in Gotham City after final 12 months’s DC Fandome reveal, fairly than one thing with an entire lot of newness to it. We get to see extra of what we knew was coming: Paul Dano’s mysterious Riddler, Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman getting near Pattinson’s rage-filled Batman, and extra closely make-up-clad Colin Farrell than anybody would know what to do with. But it at the very least reinforces the tone and concept that Warner Bros. goes with on this newest cinematic Batman: darkish, youthful, and tortured in simply sufficient of a manner that hopefully, it should let the Dark Knight stand out from his cinematic predecessors lurking within the shadows.

The Batman is ready to hit theaters March 4, 2022.

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