Director Matt Reeves also reveals the surprising personal connection he has to one of the most popular Batman comics.
“I was trying to find a different angle on it.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, that hasn’t really been touched on.’
Robert Pattinson and Paul Dano in ‘The Batman’.Jonathan Olley/DC Comics/Warner Bros.
There’s a kind of mysticism to it.”
And in this one, it felt like it was such a shock how smoothly you could move.
You kind of end up moving like more of a wraith," he says.
The cover ‘Batman: Shaman’.DC Comics
And I really wanted [it to feel like] a sort of druid."
And I was thinking that Bruce kind of thinks that.
It clears his mind so much to be in that suit that it actually gives him extrasensory abilities.
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“I started thinking about Jekyll and Hyde and the idea of the shadow side,” says Reeves.
“Egoreally gets into this idea of the beast within him and that struggle.
So, that got into the really internal, psychological struggle of being Batman.”
Reeves even discovered he had a personal connection to those last two during his research.
And I never really separated the two.
And then I loved it."
The Batmanopens in theaters March 4.
