Published 06:47 IST, October 17th 2021

'The Batman' trailer sees Robert Pattinson's caped crusader searching for answers

'The Batman', which has dropped its full trailer, stars Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz & Paul Dano, is directed by Matt Reeves, and releases on March 4, 2022

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trailer for latest film featuring Batman, Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as Gotham's Caped Cruser, has dropped its first full trailer. film is set to release on March 4, 2022, in US, and is a reboot of franchise that is planned to include up to two more films. Here is first full trailer for Batman directed by Matt Reeves:

' Batman' trailer breakdown

trailer begins with a SWAT team raiding what appears to be a diner and arresting a man who leaves behind a coffee cup with a ‘?’ froth.

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Inspector Gordon summons Batman using Bat-Signal, and Robert Pattinson’s avatar duly answers. He grapples with face-painted thugs, and meets an incarcerated man who has done something dire. ‘This is a powderkeg and Riddler’s match,’ Wayne says, as Zoe Kravitz, ‘Cat woman’ both reassures and warns him in different instances.

Wayne searches for answers, with Alfred (Andy Serkis) making stakes clear to him. Batman, resigned, enters Gotham’s underbelly and takes fight to his mysterious enemies.

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Robert Pattinson takes forward Christian Bale-Christopher lan legacy

upcoming film is intended as a reboot, set in second year of Batman fighting crime. It is unkwn how it ties in, if at all, to lan Batman trilogy, though it does share a lot more matically with it than it does with latest Batman incarnation, one played by Ben Affleck in DC's Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League.

Affleck was earlier set to le standalone film himself and also direct, but opted out completely in 2019, with Robert Pattinson, who emerged as actor who played ill-fated Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter films and shot to fame as vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight saga, coming aboard as next Batman.

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This film is likely to feature Riddler as primary antagonist, though re is always likelihood of or villains lurking in  shows. trailer shows Pattinson's Batman taking on quite a lot of gunfire he-on, perhaps a slight departure from Bale's Batman. Apart from potentially two more films, two spin-off TV series are also part of DC-Warner Brors plan. 

Pattinson seventh actor to play Batman in a Live-action film

Robert Pattinson is seventh actor to play Batman in a live-action atrical film. After am West took his TV Batman to cinemas in 1966's Batman: Movie, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney played Gotham’s Dark Knight in late-80s and 90s in with varying degrees of success. However, it was subsequent three films - Batman Begins, Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises - featuring Christian Bale, that really rekindled franchise and gave  Batman a complete story arc. Ben Affleck n took up cowl, playing an aging but bulky Batman trying to be elder statesman in a world irrevocably changed by arrival of Superman.

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03:36 IST, October 17th 2021