We got the first teaser for The Batman at last night’s DC Fandome, and what’s striking about it is how much it plays like the antithesis of a blockbuster movie. As such, when Batman returned in Batman Begins, the franchise had to both nurse the wounds of a disliked Batman & Robin and exist in a world where the mere idea of a Batman movie (sans marquee actors as marquee villains no less) was not an automatic event. However, the comparatively soft earnings for Batman Begins showed that the mere idea of a grounded and grimdark Batman movie, even one that played like a pulpy adventure movie, wasn’t automatically a top-tier tentpole event. And that The Batman, where the biggest action beat is Pattinson wailing on a random henchman, seems to be even less of a big-scale spectacle is either (pessimistically) an overconfidence in the IP or (optimistically) an admittance that audiences have had plenty of “blockbuster” Batman movies. It’s a Batman movie that’s explicitly selling itself as not the biggest movie of the year or even the post-summer/pre-Christmas season.

Source: Forbes August 23, 2020 18:00 UTC