The Batman’s New Trailer Puts the Dark Knight within the Dark

Warner Bros. has given followers a belated Christmas current by releasing a brand new trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Batman, as filled with new footage because the proverbial Christmas goose. There’s loads of Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, loads of Robert Pattinson’s Batman beating the hell out of individuals, and loads of Paul Dano’s Riddler implying the Wayne household is chargeable for Gotham City’s deepest, darkest secret.

If you’ll recall, The Batman is barely set a few years after Bruce Wayne has began his profession as a vigilante, and it looks like he’s but to search out that work/alter-ego life steadiness that permits him to masquerade as a socialite and throw folks off the observe of his secret id. Perhaps that’s why the Riddler appears to know precisely who Batman actually is, and why he seemingly begins his legal profession by leaving ugly messages for the Dark Knight as a substitute of generically terrorizing Gotham City. What’s actually intriguing is that Riddler appears to be positioning himself as an agent of justice by exposing regardless of the hell the Wayne household has been preserving hidden—one thing that Alfred (Andy Serkis) could also be properly conscious of, and has been hiding from Bruce. The different risk is that Alfred is aware of one thing concerning the night time Thomas and Martha Wayne had been murdered in Crime Alley, one thing that Bruce doesn’t know—and the concept that Reeves could be shaking up Batman’s oft-told origin story is fairly thrilling. Give it a glance:

This new trailer can also be undoubtedly essentially the most we’ve seen of Selina Kyle/Catwoman, and Kravitz offers her a refreshing sense of ease with simply the tiniest little bit of camp that offsets Pattinson’s brooding anger completely. My solely qualm is her… masks? If that’s what we’re calling it? It seems bananas. But I can simply recover from it since her nickname for Batman appears to be “Vengeance,” which I’ve to imagine is as a result of he angrily introduces himself to her or different criminals by screaming “I AM VENGEANCE!” at them in some unspecified time in the future, after which Catwoman makes enjoyable of him mercilessly. If I’m mistaken, that is nonetheless my head-canon.

The Batman, which additionally stars Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon, Colin Farrell because the Penguin, and John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, opens March 4, 2022.

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