Spoiler Warning: Do not read if you have not seen “The Batman,” currently playing in theaters.
This story discusses a major spoiler at the end of the movie.When director Matt Reeves sat down to conceive his vision for “The Batman,” he wanted to embrace the idea from the comics that as Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson) found his footing as a costumed vigilante, he would inspire his eventual rogues gallery to take on their equally larger-than-life personas.
Over the course of the film, that transformation commences for both villains — Paul Dano’s Riddler and Colin Farrell’s Penguin — as well as Batman’s quasi-partner in crimefighting, Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz), as she becomes Catwoman.While Dano’s Riddler especially takes center stage in driving the story, Reeves also wanted to give audiences the feeling that other possible Batman villains could be lurking in the periphery, just out of the camera’s gaze.
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