New The Batman trailer is everything you want from the Dark Knight’s return

A new trailer for The Batman has been revealed, as part of a panel for the movie at DC’s FanDome 2021 event. You can watch it below. The new trailer for The Batman dropped as part of a panel that featured Robert Pattinson (Bruce Wayne), Zoe Kravitz (Selina Kyle) and director Matt Reeves. With the movie’s release date set for March 4, 2022 – just under five months away – this is our most comprehensive look at the movie so far.

The trailer shows the arrest of Paul Dano’s Edward Nashton, aka The Riddler, and gives us our first look at Andy Serkis’ Alfred. We also see Batman chasing down Colin Farrell’s Penguin, who plays a minor role in the film. We get to see how this version of the Bat suit is essentially immune to gunfire, which is extremely cool. It looks terrific, and rather violent – if perhaps slightly familiar, with the Nolan films in mind.

“The first conversation I had with Matt about it, I just knew there was something radically different from anything we’d seen in the Batman movies before,” Pattinson said about the film during the panel. Reeves explained how the tone of the film and the early state of Batman’s career go hand-in-hand. “One place we haven’t been is grounding it the way Year One does,” Reeves said. “There’s a desperation to it, he’s working out this rage,” Pattinson added. The actor wore Val Kilmer’s Bat suit to costume test for the role. Pattinson explained how his version of the character doesn’t delineate between Bruce Wayne and Batman at this point in his life, and made the hero sound animalistic.

Kravitz explained how she tried to imbue Selina Kyle with a realistic core, to ground the character. Reeves explained that this realism is how she differs from the other on-screen versions of the antihero.