Unto every generation, a Batman is born.
Your grandparents had Adam West‘s campy take in the 1960 s television series. Your moms and dads had Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney all worn in the ’80 s and ’90 s to differing degrees of success. We millennials were dealt with to Christian Bale’ s renowned voice in Christopher Nolan‘s genre-resetting Dark Knight trilogy, just to then be tortured by the guarantee of a Ben Affleck standalone film that never ever emerged after the guarantee he displayed in Zack Snyder‘s movies.
But from the very first teaser trailer that exposed Matthew Reeves‘ grungier handle the renowned character in The Batman– consisting of long, oily hair and more black eye liner than Taylor Momsen endured Gossip Girl– it was clear that Robert Pattinson was going to play a superhero for a brand-new period.
Instead of the debonair playboy variation of Bruce Wayne seen in previous movies, this billionaire orphan was a lot more in his sensations than Drake With Reeves sharing that he was influenced by Kurt Cobain while composing the film and Pattinson describing his character as freak, naturally, the Internet fasted to call him “Emo Batman.”
