‘Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne is impressed by Kurt Cobain’: Matt Reeves
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The Batman trailer that dropped final 12 months left the viewers bedazzled of how nicely the music used a darker rendition of Nirvana’s Something In The Way. As it seems, director Matt Reeves had a deeper cause for the track choice.
In an interview with Empire, director Matt Reeves talked about how late Nirvana frontman and ’90s music icon Kurt Cobain impressed his adaptation of Batman’s alter ego Bruce Wayne.
“When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way,'” he mentioned, referring to the grunge rock group’s 1991 track, which Cobain wrote a couple of fictional individual residing beneath a bridge, and which seems within the trailers for The Batman.
It was inside the music that Reeves determined to forego the usual portrayal of Bruce Wayne as a playboy and go for one thing edgier.
“There’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days,’ and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor,” remarked Reeves.
Reeves’ determination to solid Robert Pattinson galvanised with having Kurt Cobain in his thoughts. “He’s also got that Kurt Cobain thing, where he looks like a rock star, but you also feel like he could be a recluse,” mentioned Reeves.
Pattinson drew Reeves’ consideration after the director watched his efficiency within the 2017 crime thriller Good Time. “In that movie, you could really feel his vulnerability and desperation, but you could also feel his power,” the director advised Empire.
Reeves’ cinematic influences for “The Batman” embrace Chinatown, The French Connection, and Taxi Driver. Reeves co-wrote the script with Mattson Tomlin and “The Batman” options cinematography from Oscar-nominated DP Greig Fraser.
The Batman releases on March 4, 2022, marking the sixth re-imagination of the character on the massive display.
