Robert Pattinson talks to BBC Arabic News about The Batman

Rob talks to BBC Arabic News about The Batman – or as much as he can talk about The Batman.

Robert Pattinson interviews during The Lighthouse LA Press Junket

Here’s one of the first interviews from today. I’ll upload more as they become available.

Robert Pattinson gets another new castmate

It’s official – Paul Dano will play The Ridder alongside Robert Pattinson’s The Batman.

From THR;

Filmmaker Matt Reeves has found his Riddler for The Batman. Paul Dano has signed on as the classic villain, Warner Bros. announced Thursday.
Dano’s version of the character will be named Edward Nashton, the man who in the comics later goes by the name Edward Nygma and adopts the villainous persona. Frank Gorshin and John Astin played the villain on the 1960s TV series, while Jim Carrey played him in 1995’s Batman Forever, which was directed by Joel Schumacher.

And in other The Batman news THR also confirmed that Matt Reeves has chosen previous co-collaborator Michael Giacchino to compose the music for the film:

Composer Michael Giacchino has said yes to The Batman. Filmmaker Matt Reeves surprised the crowd Friday at an event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, where Giacchino and and fellow composer David Arnold were engaging in some friendly competition by comparing works they’ve done.

When Reeves took the stage, he got down on one knee in a mock proposal, asking Giacchinoto board his project, as captured in a video from an attendee, and reported by Empire journalist Chris Hewitt.

Robert Pattinson talks to Kyle Buchanan of The New York Times, below is an extract, but you can click on link to read the full interview:

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe interview with Esquire UK

Below is an extract from Rob’s interview with Esquire UK (click on the link to read the full interview/article) and enjoy the photos below. The interview is great and there’s some interesting comments:

Pattinson arrived early in Halifax, before his director and co-star, to psych himself into the role of the saturnine Ephraim. Having approached Eggers after seeing “The Witch”, in the hope that they might at some point work together, Pattinson had declined the director’s first suggestion, for a part in a more conventional, mainstream film that the director was then developing.

“He said he was only interested in doing weird things,” Eggers says. “So when The Lighthouse came around I said that if he doesn’t find this weird enough, I guess we’ll never work together”.

It’s true, Pattinson says, that at that time, in 2016, he wanted to do the weirdest stuff in the world. Mission accomplished, Rob!) Still, he spent a good deal of time agonising over whether or not to take the role in The Lighthouse. I remember reading it and I thought it was very funny, but I was also thinking, I don’t understand how the tone would work?

When Dafoe signed on, Pattinson was excited. I knew Willem could bring that kind of anarchic energy, he says, but I really didn’t know how I would do it at all. Dafoe, he says, in one of his many moments of self-effacement, has one of those faces where he can literally sit in any room in the world, doing almost nothing, and it’s fascinating to watch. Whereas I sort of blend in with the chair I’m sitting on

Robert Pattinson Talks #TheLighthouse #TheBatman and #ChristopherNolan with Variety

Rob talks The Lighthouse, The Batman and Christopher Nolan with Variety. It also has some great BTS from the photoshoot.