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Speaker 1 00:00:05 After 13 films and eight different actors taking on the classic role, Batman is back once again, but with a new twist directed by the famous Matt Reeves, the Batman delves into the caped Crusader second year of fighting crime. And Bruce Wayne's work as a detective uncovering corruption in Gotham city and going after the notorious villain, the Riddler, I was invited by Warner brothers to the Batman's press conference where Reeves had this to say about this new take on Bruce Wayne story.
Speaker 2 00:00:34 I knew that I wanted to take this iteration of a younger Batman who was early in his arc, that there was room for growth for growth room, for an awakening, and put him at the center of this mystery that would pull us into the path of all of these characters. And, you know, like the opening shot of the movie is something that I just saw when I started trying to think about like the Riddler and, and point of view and the idea of getting inside of his perspective for me, what I love when I go to the movies is I love that idea of putting the audience in this empathic relationship with characters that the audience isn't so that they can experience this, this kind of immersion into somebody else's perspective. It was more of the idea that led to the visual.
Speaker 1 00:01:18 I just wanted to explore more of Bruce Wayne's, detective side, Andrew, much inspiration from old films and comics from the seventies like Batman year one, an ego on a,
Speaker 2 00:01:27 Uh, front, you know, I did a deep dive and read so many comics. And I mean, there are a few, I would say totally that year one, there was something in the tone of that. It was grounded in a way, and also felt cinematic in a way that reminded me of like an American seventies movie or something. You know what I mean? I think, and then, you know, uh, ego by Darwin cook was really important because it was really dealing with the psychology of being Batman, the, the idea of, um, the beast within and him kind of in an internal struggle, which I thought was really captivating and informed it. Um, and I would say the long Halloween Jeph Loeb and Tim sail, that was super important because it was this idea of, uh, a kind of serial killer who was, who had a series of crimes.
Speaker 2 00:02:14 And the idea of Batman getting kind of caught up in that as the world's greatest detective, I felt like, okay. Drawing from those, I think on the comic book front, um, was really important. And then as far as the movie, uh, that were inspirational, I, I, you know, it was a lot of, um, to me, there's a way in which Gordon and Batman in this movie are Woodward and Bernstein. You know, I mean, this is the whole things that all this corruption and how high does it go. And so it's kind of like all the president's men and there's a bit of French connection and there's a bit of taxi driver and there's a bit of, you know, it's, it's a nano arts like Alan Pakula. It's like, uh, it's like Klute, you know, the relationship between Klute and Bree Daniels is very much informs the relationship between Batman and Selena.
Speaker 1 00:02:52 The film has a star-studded cast of Robert Pattinson is Bruce Wayne. So he Kravitz Paul Danoe, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy circus, and Colin Farrell, who people have been excited to see take on classic roles like Catwoman or the Riddler when asked about how they were able to have such great chemistry as Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle actors, Robert Pattinson, and Zoe Kravitz had this to say
Speaker 3 00:03:16 It was very easy. You know, me and Rob have been friends for a long time. And, um, I think, I think a lot of it was on the page. And I think a lot of it's really, you know, what Matt wrote right? Where the, the emotional states of both of these characters was so, so clear and the connection that they find in each other and why they connect with so-so clear. So I feel like it was kind of built in, you know, these people really, um, they've both felt alone their entire lives and to, to meet somebody who, um, has a similar way of thinking and that, um, grabs you the way that, that they kind of grab each other. I think it really is the heart of the story. And it's a really big deal for, for both these characters to feel this way. So, uh, you know, if you're, if you're attached to your character emotionally, it's really easy to, to play, to play that part of it.
Speaker 4 00:04:14 And on massive productions like this, I think it's quite easy to feel quite it can be quite easy to feel quite disconnected from the story because there's so many moving parts and to have another performer who's re can really see as putting everything into it, it kind of, you know, it's a reflective, um, experience where you kind of, you know, it makes you want to work harder and it kind of, and you can see that, you know, you can see, I could have looked at, so we all tell me, even when we were doing rehearsals, she was, you know, trained constantly all the time. And, you know, you occasionally come across actors who just wouldn't put that level of effort in, and then, you know, that there's kind of has a little, a little dent in the, uh, in the machine, but, uh, yeah, it kind of, you see someone working that hard and you kind of want to put as much work in as them.
Speaker 1 00:04:59 Baldino also takes on a new re-imagined version of the Radler who switches is flashing neon green suit for a new look that took viewers by surprise, a green military jacket and a us military extreme cold weather mask that was inspired by the real life Zodiac killer.
Speaker 5 00:05:14 I spent a lot of time thinking about the Batman. Um, and, uh, I love the idea that, uh, you can't really have Batman without, uh, his buildings or his rogues gallery. And, but I love that you couldn't have this Riddler without the Batman. And I think the dynamic between them, which I, I, you could tell just the way Matt talked about in, in the storytelling with the camera. Um, there's some boundary there that that is, uh, really, I think, beautifully explored and there's, uh, more murkiness to the morality. It's less just hero and villain and black and white, and they're not, there's not just protecting the status quo. Uh, there, there is something wrong in this city, and it's really complicated to have a villain who some of his, uh, ideas are, are not wrong. It's made me the execution is a little off. Um, uh, but, uh, I found that to be really complicated and compelling, and I thought that the, any bet it's Batman, it's Gotham, there's these incredible archetypes at work in this history. But I think the contact with reality in this character and to come from as emotional and psychological as place as possible, but the contact with reality, I think is also what makes it, I think potentially really scary.
Speaker 1 00:06:45 The film comes out on March 4th and we'll launch a new Batman universe. We can expect to see two sequels in the future. And two spin-off television series that are currently in development for HBO max for Dalia and Yara news. This was Mariaca Manu.
