With the DC franchise and films by Christopher Nolan, Robert Eggers, and the Safdie brothers under his belt, some people will always know Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen.
The actor who gave a breakout performance in the 2008 film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel twilightrecently had an encounter with someone who thought he had taken early retirement after the five-film series ended in 2012.
In an interview with New York TimesPattinson recalls that an airport employee recently asked him: “Hey, you're the guy from… twilight. Why did you stop acting?
“I was like…” I'm Batman? “He narrated.” “I just laughed.”
Pattinson and Kristen Stewart star as 104-year-old vampire Edward and his teenage girlfriend Bella Swan in the book-to-movie saga, which includes… New moon (2009), eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn – Part One (2011) and Breaking Dawn – Part Two (2012).
Robert Pattinson in Batman.
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After making his DC debut as Bruce Wayne Batman (2022), Pattinson is set to reunite with writer-director Matt Reeves for the sequel, which they plan to film in 2025.
Reeves previously provided an update on his plans for the transition Batman In a trilogy. “Yes, that's still the plan. I mean, it sticks very closely to the path that we envisioned,” he told Collider in September.
“Things kind of changed. So, when we came up with the idea of doing this Penguin“This was something I always intended to continue Penguin's story, and I wanted to tell this story of the beginning of his rise to power,” said Reeves of the Max spin-off series. “Because we know it was submitted Batman As a kind of mediocrity, a kind of overlooked and ridiculed figure, who has not yet become in anyone's eyes the leader we know in tradition.
Reeves added: “And so, that was intentional because I wanted to – while it wasn't a Batman origin story, I wanted the origin stories of these other characters, from the Rogues Gallery and that story was originally the entry into the next movie.”
