Anna Daniels
From our vantage point, it looks as though the film’s team may have been inspired by Batman: Arkham Knight, Arkham Origins, and/or Batman: Gotham Knight when coming up with the new suit’s design.
The short video shows a mechanical-looking Batman logo, and in the 2015 action-adventure game Batman: Arkham Knight, the Batsuit armor pieces (including the logo) would mechanically tighten, align, or separate depending on what Batman wanted to do. Arkham Origins featured several different shoulder armor options for the Batman suit that look similar to what’s shown in the camera test clip Reeves shared online. And in Batman: Gotham Knight, the 2008 anthology film comprised of animated superhero shorts, Batman rocked a popped collar (plus a chin guard not shown here), which appears to be what Pattinson’s hero will do in The Batman.
Regardless of how exactly the costume came together and what pieces of past Batman media the movie’s creatives might have referenced, the important thing is that Pattinson loves how it looks. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment in October 2019, Pattinson briefly gushed about his Batsuit: “Matt has got a really awesome idea about it. I think this thing is going to be very, very cool.”
Written by: Looper
