The Batman/Trivia

The following are some trivia from the film The Batman.

Trivia

 * Robert Pattinson had to lie to Christopher Nolan about his audition because Robert Pattinson's audition/screentest took place while he was in rehearsals for shooting Tenet (2020) in Los Angeles in May 2019.
 * The Batman feature the first version of Batman to directly address the black eye makeup under the cowl.
 * Colin Farrell stated that he went to Starbucks to try out his prosthetics and makeup for the Penguin for the first time, and nobody recognized him despite getting a couple of stares from people.
 * Colin Farrell revealed his son was 'utterly horrified' at the sight of his transformation into Penguin during production.
 * Matt Reeves stated that his version of the Riddler was partly inspired by the infamous serial killer who operated in California in the late 1960s.
 * The last two punches in the train station scene where the victim is already unconscious when Batman says, "I'm vengeance!" were Robert Pattinson's idea and he improvised.
 * Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson received the same advice from the predecessors of their roles (Michelle Pfeiffer and Christian Bale respectively): make sure you can go to the bathroom while in costume.
 * In Wayne Manor, there is a pedestal with a bust on top. This is a reference to the original Batman (1966) series where a similar Shakespeare bust was used as a device to trigger the opening to the Batcave.
 * Robert Pattinson auditioned for The Batman using Val Kilmer's original Batsuit from Batman Forever (1995). But because Pattinson's head didn't fit into Kilmer's cowl, he wore the one George Clooney wore in Batman & Robin (1997). Oddly enough, the former Batman Christian Bale also auditioned for Batman Begins (2005) using Val Kilmer's original Batsuit from Batman Forever (1995), but including Kilmer's cowl.
 * When asked if he had taken anything from the set, Robert Pattinson revealed that he repeatedly took socks that his character wears and Warner Bros. noticed: "I did get a lot of socks [from set]... I kept getting a talking to from Warner Bros. They'd say, 'You know, it's fine to have a few, but you take them every day. How many socks do you need, cause we've been shooting for a year?'"
 * At one point in the movie, Falcone refers to the Batman as "Zorro." In many versions of Batman's origins, the Wayne family was leaving a theater showing of Zorro when they were murdered. Zorro was acknowledged by Bob Kane and Bill Finger as one of the main influences for Batman.
 * When Ben Affleck was set to star and direct, the villain of the film would have been Deathstroke played by Joe Manganiello and the screenplay would have prominently featured Arkham Asylum. Matt Reeves had actually enjoyed the original script that Ben Affleck had been preparing, comparing it to a James Bond film. However, he opted not to use it as he wanted to make a more noir, detective-driven story and bring his own, completely new version to life.