Inside Robert Pattinson’s Transformation Into “Emo Batman”

Unto each era, a Batman is born.

Your grandparents had Adam West‘s campy take within the 1960s TV collection. Your dad and mom had Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney all suited up within the ’80s and ’90s to various levels of success. We millennials have been handled to Christian Bale‘s iconic voice in Christopher Nolan‘s genre-resetting Darkish Knight trilogy, solely to then be tortured by the promise of a Ben Affleck standalone film that by no means materialized after the promise he confirmed in Zack Snyder‘s movies. 

However from the primary teaser trailer that exposed Matthew Reeves‘ grungier tackle the long-lasting character in The Batman—together with lengthy, greasy hair and extra black eyeliner than Taylor Momsen wore on Gossip Woman—it was clear that Robert Pattinson was going to play a superhero for a brand new period.

As a substitute of the debonair playboy model of Bruce Wayne seen in prior movies, this billionaire orphan was much more in his emotions than Drake. With Reeves sharing that he was impressed by Kurt Cobain whereas writing the film and Pattinson referring to his character as freak, naturally, the Web was fast to dub him “Emo Batman.”