It looks like a soldier's armor in some kind of strange parallel universe where you have to wear little ears on top of your head as well.'īut the damage details aren't the only key elements at work in the Pattinson suit. There's kind of grazes where it's been hit with bullets and kind of just the wear and tear of someone who's been out fighting every night,' Pattinson said. To that end, Crossman and Dillon imagined a Batsuit with its fair share of battle damage built right in. For The Batman, which tells the story of the Dark Knight a little more than a year into his crimefighting career, director Matt Reeves wanted something that looked rather homemade, assembled by a driven young man who might not necessarily know exactly what he's doing yet. It was kind of shocking.'Įvery Batsuit has its particular visual trademarks, from the iconic yellow chest oval of the Keaton era to the high tech body armor of the Bale years and, of course, the infamous nipples on both Kilmer and Clooney's chestpieces. It was so well-designed, so articulated on all the joints. 'I felt very different immediately,' Pattinson said.

As the actor told Entertainment Weekly, putting his own costume on for the first time after the restrictive experience of wearing an archival Batsuit was more than a little surprising. For Robert Pattinson, that meant squeezing into Val Kilmer's costume from Batman Forever and enduring the intense heat of wearing it as he tried to audition for the superhero role of a lifetime.įortunately, after he actually won the role, Pattinson got a new Batsuit of his very own for The Batman, designed by costume supervisor Dave Crossman and concept artist Glyn Dillon. that, when you're contending for the role of Batman, you must do a screen test in one of the costumes worn by a previous big-screen Caped Crusader.

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