Surely a culture must be in terminal strife when its fictional superheroes can barely see the point of going on.
suggested the world was in for a pretty odd reboot. The film’s running time would be three hours. The hero would be played by the lugubrious Englishman Robert Pattinson who revealed, in an interview, thatwas “a sad movie”, and that his character was “kind of a weirdo”, whom the writers had partly modelled on Kurt Cobain.
Because he’s the most human of superheroes, Batman has always been the most capable of moving with the times. He began life in DC Comics in 1939. He was conceived as a kind of rejoinder to Superman, who’d come on the scene a year earlier. The man of steel had superhuman powers; Batman didn’t. He was just a human vigilante who donned bat clothes to blend in with the night.
Schumacher’s Batman, successively played by Val Kilmer and George Clooney, looked like a leading man again. Robin was back, played by Chris O’Donnell. As the Riddler, Jim Carrey pranced around in a green bodysuit, just as Frank Gorshin had on TV. “It’s time for Batman to enjoy being Batman,” Clooney said.
Eschewing the traditional green tights, Dano’s Riddler wears a roomy black get-up that’s a palpable homage to the disguise worn by the Zodiac, the real-life serial killer who terrorised San Francisco in the late 1960s.
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