Robert Pattinson is closing deal to play the new live-action Batman

[chamber-music]

Not impressed, mainly because I can’t see him being mentor to Robin or Batgirl. Which is a shame. Because I really want DCEU to give a try to Robins and then Nightwing, Red Hood, whatever-Tim-would-be-when-time-comes and Damian in the future. Pattinson, at least right now, also far way from being as impressive looking around Gal Gadot, Jason Mamoa and etc., like Ben used to look around them. In BvS trio looked so good.

WB has pretty much said their shared universe is dead for the foreseeable future so Pattison wouldn't be sharing the screen with the likes of Mamoa or Gadot.

[josai21]

Pattinson is more likely to face off against Joaquim Phoenix's joker.

I, for one, am very happy to give RP a chance. He's grow drastically as an actor since twilight. And lets be honest, he was pretty decent in Harry Potter. Plot can make or break a show. Hayden Christenson for example was horrible in the star wars prequels, but I consider him a very solid actor.

Furthermore, the focus of Reeve's batman as "World's greatest detective" is a much needed directional shift. I like it and look forward to seeing it.

[numberthirty]

Pattinson is more likely to face off against Joaquim Phoenix's joker.

I, for one, am very happy to give RP a chance. He's grow drastically as an actor since twilight. And lets be honest, he was pretty decent in Harry Potter. Plot can make or break a show. Hayden Christenson for example was horrible in the star wars prequels, but I consider him a very solid actor.

Furthermore, the focus of Reeve's batman as "World's greatest detective" is a much needed directional shift. I like it and look forward to seeing it.

I wouldn't put too much time into waiting around for this to happen.

[Yohei72]

WB has pretty much said their shared universe is dead for the foreseeable future...

Truly? That would be refreshing. I've enjoyed the MCU as much as the next good little consumer, but the massive shared universe approach can really creatively hamstring storytellers. Honestly, I'd like to see the comics move away from that approach, but I think I'm in the minority there and I know it's not gonna happen anytime soon. "Get good storytellers, give them good characters and get out of the way and let them do good work" is the right plan to follow at this point.

[mathew101281]

Truly? That would be refreshing. I've enjoyed the MCU as much as the next good little consumer, but the massive shared universe approach can really creatively hamstring storytellers. Honestly, I'd like to see the comics move away from that approach, but I think I'm in the minority there and I know it's not gonna happen anytime soon. "Get good storytellers, give them good characters and get out of the way and let them do good work" is the right plan to follow at this point.

I like shared universes, but like any story telling convention it has its weaknesses.

[Frontier]

Not impressed, mainly because I can’t see him being mentor to Robin or Batgirl. Which is a shame. Because I really want DCEU to give a try to Robins and then Nightwing, Red Hood, whatever-Tim-would-be-when-time-comes and Damian in the future. Pattinson, at least right now, also far way from being as impressive looking around Gal Gadot, Jason Mamoa and etc., like Ben used to look around them. In BvS trio looked so good.

Yeesh. I don't even wanna think about how long and how many Batman movies it would take to incorporate all five Robins (4 if we're not counting Stephanie...I like to count her) in a satisfying way. They'd have to make an MCU just for Batman characters XD

If we get any sidekicks it would probably be Batgirl and Robin. It's very rare an adaption ever goes past those two, and if it does it's usually just to make Dick Nightwing.

[byrd156]

If we get any sidekicks it would probably be Batgirl and Robin. It's very rare an adaption ever goes past those two, and if it does it's usually just to make Dick Nightwing.

I think we will see Dick grow from Robin to Nightwing, Reeves seems like the kind of director who respects the source material while doing something fresh and familiar. I'm hopeful but it just makes sense if DC/WB wants to make a bigger franchise out of Batman for their live action films.

[Frontier]

I think we will see Dick grow from Robin to Nightwing, Reeves seems like the kind of director who respects the source material while doing something fresh and familiar. I'm hopeful but it just makes sense if DC/WB wants to make a bigger franchise out of Batman for their live action films.

If we get sequential Batman movies with Pattinson, I could see it.

[Pohzee]

I don't watch Batman movies in the hopes that Robin 21 and 56 show up, so I just hope whoever is cast does a good job regardless of their age.

[Flash Gordon]

He has done a ton of things since Twilight, and they've all been great.

Plus Twilight was a cash out for him. Can't fault the man for his grind.

[byrd156]

If we get sequential Batman movies with Pattinson, I could see it.

I think we will see a trilogy with him at the very least. Reeves so far feels very put together from everything he's said about his plans for the character.

[Lee Stone]

It can't be all bad as long as Batman doesn't have more muscles than Superman and his costume doesn't have built-in nipples.

[Punisher007]

Pattinson himself couldn't be bothered to hide how much he thought that Twilight was crap (seriously there's some hilarious videos of him being passive-aggressive about it online). It was a paycheck for him, plus he was playing a crap character to begin with.

When he's given better material to work with, and I cannot imagine Reeve's NOT doing that, he's consistently great.

[chamber-music]

The Twilight movies actually had some very good actors in them good so I don't know why people would hold a grudge against Pattison for being in the films.

Lee Pace, Bryce Dallas Howard, Micheal Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Sarah Clarke, Anna Kendrick, Jack Huston and Wendell Pierce all appeared in the franchise.

Rami Malek was in a Twilight movie and he won a academy award this year.

[SiegePerilous02]

I have only watched the Twilight films with the Rifftrax on. I think it's about halfway through the second film where Pattinson stops giving a f*** lol. He and Stewart get lampooned the most because they are at the forefront, but they are both better actors than the material they are given. I'm willing to give him a chance on this, because he get positive word of mouth in other stuff.

Him being on the younger side means we are likely not going to see a full Bat-Family any time soon. Which I'm fine with, I'm not into the bloated cast and I'd rather they just focus on giving Dick-as-Robin some cinematic redemption.