Last night, Matt Reeves used his Twitter and Vimeo accounts to unveil a brief first look of Robert Pattinson's Batman suit and while the choice of red lighting drew some comparisons to Daredevil of all things, the look is certainly interesting. From what we can see, it seems like Reeves might be drawing from the Arkham Knight games with this particular take on the Batsuit. In other news, it's also been confirmed that the movie, co-written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin will be set during the Caped Crusader's second year on the job. Oh and a shout out to the hints of Michael Giacchino's score music during this little camera test as well, which bodes well for the movie. Meanwhile as for more casting, here we go ....
Andy Serkis has been cast in the role of Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, replacing Jeremy Irons who previously played the role in both Batman V. Superman and Justice League. Serkis along with appearing as Alfred in this movie is also directing the sequel to Venom. It's a solid casting choice and makes a change from casting him as a villain, which the MCU already did.
John Turturro will take on the role of mafia crime boss, Carmine Falcone. This will be the third live action depiction of the character in recent year as we've seen Tom Wilkinson portray the character in Batman Begins and John Doman in Gotham. I do get the impression that Falcone will be an early casualty in this movie as Batman's rogues gallery continue to grow in numbers.
Meanwhile Peter Sarsgaard will be taking on the role of Gil Colson, the district attorney for Gotham. I've seen some speculate that this might be an alias before revealing him as Harvey Dent or that Colson will be later replaced by Dent and the latter seems the likely character. There was also a similarly named character who appeared in Batman: The Animated Series during the two parter which debuted Batgirl. Sarsgaard's wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal previously played Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight.
As for Oswald 'Oz' Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, it took for filming to begin for Colin Farrell to finally be confirmed for the role. It seems that we'll be seeing a slightly younger, thinner version of the character with whitish blond hair, possibly drawing from the Emperor Penguin storylines in the comics. As of now we still don't know for certain who the main antagonist of the movie.
Last but not no means we have Jayme Lawson who will be playing an original character in the movie named Bella Real. This character has been described as a mayoral candidate and not much else so far. Aside from Zoe Kravitz's Catwoman, Bella seems to be the only other prominent female character in this movie. I'm hoping there's a few more as filming continues and more casting details are unveiled in the coming months.
Batman Camera Test: https://twitter.com/mattreevesLA/status/1228093055103881216
The Batman is currently filming and will be released in cinemas June 25th 2021.
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