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Today Jay and Sean are putting together a Batman puzzle. Anyone else take up puzzling during lockdown? We almost always do movie-inspired puzzles of course because what else are we going to talk about???
Puzzle specs: 1000 pieces
brand: Aquarius
actual time spent: 4 hours, 17 minutes (relatively straight through, a couple of pee breaks, some dog petting breaks, and flipping the record over every 20 minutes or so)
The Batman
expected release date Expected March 4, 2022
Directed by Matt Reeves
Written by Peter Craig, Matt Reeves, Mattson Tomlin
Batman created by Bill Finger & Bob Kane
Starring
Robert Pattinson... Bruce Wayne / Batman
Colin Farrell... Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin
Zoë Kravitz... Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Andy Serkis... Alfred Pennyworth
Paul Dano... Edward Nashton / The Riddler
Peter Sarsgaard... District Attorney Gil Colson
Barry Keoghan... Officer Stanley Merkel
John Turturro... Carmine Falcone
Jeffrey Wright ... James Gordon
Robert Pattinson's screentest took place while he was shooting Tenet. Pattinson had to lie to Tenet director Christopher Nolan about it, but Nolan figured it out. "It's funny because Chris is so secretive about everything to do with his movies and then I had to be really secretive about Batman stuff. So I had to lie to Chris about having to go for a screen test; I said I had a family emergency. And as soon as I said 'it's a family emergency' he said: 'You're doing the Batman audition, aren't you?'"
The Batmobile is a customized muscle car, influenced by the 1970s Batman comics by Neal Adams when the Batmobile was a fairly normal-looking car that Batman drove for stealth purposes
Matt Reeves cites the Batman comics Batman: Ego & The Long Halloween as influences on the film.
Matt Reeves cites the work of Batman artist Francesco Francavilla as an influence on the film's design (film-noirish, distinctly low-tech).
The Batman is set during Batman's second year of fighting crime and follows him as he explores Gotham City's corruption and faces the Riddler, a riddle-obsessed serial killer. Two sequels are planned, while a spin-off prequel television series is in development for HBO Max.
Robert Pattinson said his Batman voice was inspired by co-star Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse.
Pattinson trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu with instructor and John Wick alumnus Rigan Machado, and said that he wanted to learn and achieve something new with the role and to undergo physical change.
In The Batman, Riddler is portrayed as a serial killer, drawing comparisons to the Zodiac Killer. According to Reeves, the Riddler will serve as the film's primary antagonist.
Matt Reeves confirmed that The Batman would be an original, noir-driven story and not an origin story. He also revealed that the film's connections to the DCEU would be minimal.
Justice League's post-credits scene, in which Deathstroke meets with Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), was intended to set up Ben Affleck's The Batman's plot, but Eisenberg's dialogue was rewritten during post-production to make it seem as if the characters were talking about the Injustice League rather than Batman.
Matt Reeves stated in an interview that The Batman would feature "an almost-noir driven, detective version of Batman" emphasizing the heart and mind of the character and taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock. Reeves stated that he aimed to make a film that seemed believable, and said that Chinatown, The French Connection, and Taxi Driver were sources of inspiration.
Scenes at a cemetery were filmed at the Glasgow Necropolis in mid-February 2020. In March, Warner Bros. decided to move production to Liverpool, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Warner Bros. did not plan to suspend shooting on The Batman but eventually did so for two weeks on March 14. On March 25, Reeves announced that filming had been suspended indefinitely, with plans to resume once it was safe to do so. Shortly afterward, the production's dialect coach, Andrew Jack, died from COVID-19. Reeves stated that around a quarter of the film had been shot prior to suspension, and that he had been taking time to look over what had already been shot and think about "what's to come." By September 3, filming had resumed for three days at Leavesden Studios, only to be put on pause again after Pattinson tested positive for COVID. The film crew entered a 2 week quarantine while construction on sets and props continued. Filming resumed on September 17, after Pattinson was cleared to return and should wrap in March 2021.
HBO Max began developing a spin-off police procedural series that would be written by Reeves and Terence Winter and centered on the Gotham City Police Department, sharing continuity with the film. The series was intended to build on the film's examination of the anatomy of corruption in Gotham City, set during Batman's first year of crime-fighting, from the perspective of a corrupt GCPD officer.