Los Angeles,(IANS)| The first trailer for “The Batman,” directed by Matt Reeves of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise and Robert Pattinson (recently seen in Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet”) showed Gotham’s “Capped Crusader” on Saturday night on a DC Fandom was released at a virtual event. In a Gotham City saturated in rain and gloom, Pattinson’s ‘Batman’, just a year into his reign as a costumed vigilante, reports Variety.com, describing the film as ‘Dark and Gritty’. , attacks his enemies without cruelty.”
It has been speculated that the film pits Batman against the Riddler, played by Paul Dano (“12 Years a Slave”), but the trailer, however, begins with his arrest by Gotham City police. It centers around the characters of Catwoman, played by Kravitz (“Big Little Lies”) and an unfamiliar Colin Farrell, replaced by prosthetics to become Oswald Cobblespot aka Penguin, previously essayed most memorably by Danny DeVito.
Jeffrey Wright, who was seen in action in ‘No Time to Die’, appears as the chief of the Gotham City Police Department, James Falcone and James Tuturro as Carmine Falcone in ‘The Transformers’ films. The film is scheduled for release in US theaters on March 4, 2022.