“(Reeves) wanted very specific things,” says one insider.
(Christian Bale, before landing Batman Begins, performed his test in the suit used by Val Kilmer in 1995’s Batman Forever, for instance.) Did they embody the character? How did their eyes look and act? Is there a specialness to them? Those were the questions Reeves and the studio wanted answered.
Pattinson and Hoult put on a suit from a previous Batman movie, as has become customary in the Bat-test process. Each had a pre-negotiated deal in place, ready to go into effect for whoever had the final contingency lifted, the screen test. The two actors in short order became the only contenders, and during the week of May 20, when Pattinson flew in from Cannes, both shot screen tests in costume on the Burbank lot. Hoult, too, had impressed the deliberate filmmaker, known for his thought-provoking work on the Planet of the Apes franchise, with The Favourite this winter. Pattinson has far more name recognition than Hoult, but it was his work in Good Time and High Life, among others, that Reeves kept on coming back to. Reeves is said to have spent hours poring over the two actors’ work and met with them in April. But Warners execs didn’t disqualify him because the X-Men flicks are not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, are ensemble in nature and Hoult spent large chunks of those movies unrecognizable as a furry blue mutant. Nicholas Hoult, 29, who became Pattinson’s chief rival later in the process, had been appearing as Hank McCoy, aka the Beast, in the X-Men movies. movies and vice versa, execs believe that cross-pollination dilutes both brands and can cause confusion for audiences, especially from a marketing point of view. While there are no contract provisions prohibiting Marvel actors from appearing in DC/Warner Bros. Specifically, Pattinson has not yet appeared in a Marvel Studios movie, and name-brand actors not working for the DC Comics rival are becoming few and far between. He has assiduously avoided big studio franchise films.īut that fact actually made him more attractive to Reeves and the executive team at Warner Bros. Since Pattinson shot to fame as a heartthrob vampire in the Twilight films, he has built a solid résumé in smaller, well-reviewed independent films like Good Time and Maps to the Stars. Reeves didn’t even know if the actor wanted the part. Reeves is said to have considered Pattinson, 33, early on in the process, says one source, even though no outreach was made.
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denied the recasting at the time because the actor, who had played the role in Batman v Superman and Justice League, was to have headlined his own stand-alone movie that was sidelined when the studio began rethinking its superhero strategy.) This, of course, eliminated Ben Affleck, as THR first reported back in July 2017. He is Bruce Wayne still trying to find his footing on his way to becoming the genius detective. He is written as around 30 years old, and the story is neither another rehashing of his origin nor the tale of a seasoned crimefighter ruling Gotham City. It helped that this new Batman needed to conform to a defined age bracket.
Reeves, who was hired to write and direct a new Batman movie in February 2017, was envisioning actors while penning the script, according to sources familiar with the filmmaker’s thinking. “It was quick,” says one Warners insider. As opposed to most superhero casting efforts, which often include far-and-wide searches and dozens of screen tests for the likes of Superman or more recently, Spider-Man, the Batman process was notably smooth. The decision was the culmination of an intense process that insiders describe as surprisingly quick. announced that Pattinson had won the role. That test was officially passed Friday, when Warner Bros.
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