With Ron Livingston inheriting the role of Barry's Dad, Henry, Kiersey Clemons back as Iris West and Andy Muschietti directing, The Flash will be in cinemas on 16 June. And that Kryptonian? That would be Sasha Calle as Kara Zor-El, AKA Supergirl. The "Batman", of course, is Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne (we can also expect to see Ben Affleck's Wayne as well, albeit probably less in Bat-mode). But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe? Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod ( Michael Shannon) has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. Prior to 'Batman: The Animated Series,' most peoples familiarity with Batman came from the Adam West-led TV show from the 1960s. Still haunted by the murder of his mother, Barry Allen (Miller) uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. ![]() ![]() The Riddler longs to kill Bruce Wayne.Released with all the hoopla you'd expect from a trailer during the Super Bowl, the new look at the movie sketches more of the story. The Riddler is obsessed above all with what he says is the most grotesquely crooked thing about Gotham City: the plutocrat Wayne family and Bruce’s late father who made fraud and crime the city’s foundation stone. So our antihero effectively joins forces with commissioner Gordon (Wright, lending his innate dignity and integrity to the role) to take down the Riddler, incidentally putting himself up against mob boss Carmine Falcone (Turturro) and his bloated sidekick Oswald “The Penguin” Cobblepot ( Colin Farrell) who don’t like questions being asked about who is doing the corrupting.īut wait. He sets out to whack the corrupt Gotham establishment one by one, including Mayor Don Mitchell (Rupert Penry-Jones) and district attorney Gil Colson ( Peter Sarsgaard), leaving quibbling questions for the Batman on Hallmark-type cards at the scene of each gruesome crime. Most exercised about this is the Riddler (Paul Dano), sporting a rubber gimp mask for his many social media appearances. But the city is still drenched in crime and addiction to a new narcotic called “drops”, to which law enforcement is clearly turning a blind eye. Gotham City’s political classes are complacently congratulating themselves on rooting out a major drug dealer, Sal Maroni. ![]() Joining forces … Robert Pattinson and Jeffrey Wright in The Batman. And this of course is happening in the sepulchral vastness of Gotham City, the brutal and murky world which Christopher Nolan thrillingly pioneered with his Dark Knight trilogy and made indispensable for imagining Batman on screen. You can imagine some growly voice saying “the Batman” – but not Tom Holland putting on a deep baritone to say he’s “the Spider-Man”, or Henry Cavill booming he’s “the Superman” (although maybe you could have Billy Joel stride into a dark Gotham City bar to raspingly confront “the Piano Man”).ĭirector and co-writer Matt Reeves has created a new Batman iteration in which Robert Pattinson reinvents billionaire Bruce Wayne as an elegantly wasted rock star recluse, willowy and dandyish in his black suit with tendrils of dark hair falling over his face but Wayne magically trebles in bulk when he reappears in costume and mask as the Dark Knight, his whole being weaponised into a slab-like impassivity. Adding “the” to Batman’s name has become a huge part of the brand identity, a sign of how elemental and atavistic this shadowy figure is supposed to be. T hat definite article means it’s the genuine article.
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