The Batmanis vengeance in a newly released special look teaser trailer. Aired during the NBA’s All-Star weekend, the action-packed clip offers a few snippets of new footage fromThe Batman, as Bruce Wayne, played byTenetstar Robert Pattinson, embarks on a vendetta against crime in Gotham City. Released byNBA on TNT,The Batman soars over Gotham, no doubt on his way to batter more thugs to a pulp.
From Warner Bros. Pictures comes director Matt Reeves’The Batman. Starring Robert Pattinson in the dual role of Gotham City’s vigilante detective and his alter ego, reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, The Batman will introduce audiences to a version of The Dark Knight just two years into stalking the streets as the Batman. Striking fear into the hearts of criminals has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. With only a few trusted allies, including his loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth detective Lt. James Gordon, amongst the city’s corrupt network of officials and high-profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens.
Already questioning the efficacy of his methods, Batman faces his greatest threat when a killer begins targeting Gotham’s elite with a series of sadistic machinations. This trail of cryptic clues sends the World’s Greatest Detective on an investigation into the underworld, wherehe encounters such characters as Selina Kyle/aka Catwoman, Oswald Cobblepot/aka the Penguin, Carmine Falcone, and Edward Nashton/aka the Riddler. As the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator’s plans becomes clear, Batman must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit, and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued Gotham City.
Starring alongside Robert Pattinson (Tenet, The Lighthouse) as Gotham’s Dark Knight,The Batmanfeatures an all-star cast includingZoë Kravitz(Big Little Lies, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) as Selina Kyle AKA Catwoman; Paul Dano (Love & Mercy, 12 Years a Slave) as Edward Nashton AKA The Riddler; Jeffrey Wright (No Time to Die, Westworld) as the GCPD’s James Gordon; John Turturro (Transformers, The Plot Against America) as Carmine Falcone; Peter Sarsgaard (The Magnificent Seven, Interrogation) as Gotham D.A. Gil Colson; Jayme Lawson (Farewell Amor) as mayoral candidate Bella Reál; with Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Black Panther) as Alfred; and Colin Farrell (The Gentlemen, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as Oswald Cobblepot AKA The Penguin.
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The Riddler Will Take Inspiration from Real-Life Killers
The Batmanvillain, The Riddler,will take inspiration from real-life killers, including the mysterious Zodiac. “The premise of the movie is that the Riddler is kind of molded in an almost Zodiac Killer sort of mode, and is killing very prominent figures in Gotham, and they are the pillars of society,” said Reeves. “These are supposedly legitimate figures. It begins with the mayor, and then it escalates from there. And in the wake of the murders, he reveals the ways in which these people were not everything they said they were, and you start to realize there’s some kind of association. And so just like Woodward and Bernstein, you’ve got Gordon and Batman trying to follow the clues to try and make sense of this thing in a classic kind-of-detective story way.”
The Batmanis scheduled to premiere in New York City on July 29, 2025, and will be theatrically released on March 4.
