• 14/08/2022
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The Batman: Robert Pattinson's black knight will have three identities reveals the director<

Matt Reeves, the director of The Batman, reveals that in his film, the black knight will not be the only hidden identity of the character.

Despite a little less than a dozen feature films, made by five different filmmakers with equally distinct sensitivities, the mythology that surrounds the character of Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, systematically retains some recurrent patterns.The death of the parents of Bruce Wayne, the comforting presence of Alfred or even more or less impressive and noisy cars.

One of the most obvious reasons of the saga remains, moreover, that of the double identity.This characteristic is quite inherent in the superhero in general, but is regularly exploited with more severity in the case of the black knight: the billionaire Bruce Wayne, the day, the vigilante detective Batman, at night.This binarity is found in all Live Action Batman films.

But it seems that filmmaker Matt Reeves, director of the next The Batman with Robert Pattinson, wished to take a significantly different path.

Not always easy to be a superhero...

In any case, this is what Matt Reeves told our colleagues of first who collected the comments of the director:

""I had a real revelation by rereading year one by Frank Miller: there is nothing functional or practice to be Batman.How do you walk in town?You can't get into a grocery store to buy you drink with the costume!You can't even be Bruce Wayne, because he is too well known!In the comics, Wayne therefore briefly takes the identity of a kind of quidam which resembles the Bickle Taxi Driver Travis.

Besides, Miller himself said in his notes to the designer David Mazzucchelli: '' It looks like he won a Travis Bickle sosies competition.'' Brilliant idea.[...] Miller tried to anchor something improbable, that is to say Batman, in a form of reality.He wonders what would happen '' in real '' '.And for it to work, you need a third iteration of the character.So we did that in the film, and Robert and I dug my head to know what this guy should look like.This is the kind of idea that guided us a lot in the design of the film.»»

Three identities, a Batman?

What slightly modify the known vision of the black knight and to apprehend it in a slightly different way.Matt Reeves also took the opportunity to quote one of his biggest comic comics references: Batman: year one by Frank Miller.The serious and realistic vision of the designer inspired the dark character who will therefore be put on a third identity, always to find anonymity difficult to keep under the skin of the famous Bruce Wayne or the terrifying Batman.

And if Matt Reeves had already returned to a few films that were one of his references for The Batman, the filmmaker also returned to the other major comics that influenced his writing work, Batman: Ego, Comics written and designed by DarwynCook before a first publication in the early 2000s.Again, it is a dark adaptation where Wayne gradually falls into madness and abyss.

""You put me at a very Strange Time of My Life.""

It is not surprising that Reeves has focused on the palpable and human part of the DC superhero, so much the filmmaker has always been interested in traumas and emotional issues that cross his main characters - think of the consequences of the end ofworld of Cloverfield, to the tenderness of monsters in Let me enter, or even the vengeful quest of Caesar in the last part of the Planet of the Apes.

It will therefore be interesting to know how the director will have fun with the mythology of the bat man to make it sensitive and emotionally charged.To see what it will be, you still have to wait a few weeks on March 2, before discovering The Batman in a film hall in France.