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Gotham gets its first real look at “The Batman,” and it’s darker than anyone expected.

Warner Bros. closed out the virtual DC FanDome event on October 16, 2021 by dropping the main trailer for Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” and the internet has not stopped talking about it since. Robert Pattinson’s take on the Caped Crusader trades spectacle for dread, framing the film as a noir detective story set in his character’s second year on the job. The studio confirmed the film opens in theaters March 4, 2022.

• The nearly three-minute trailer opens with police apprehending an obscured Riddler at a diner, leaving behind a coffee cup marked with a question mark in foam.
• Batman’s signature line — “It’s not just a call… It’s a warning” — anchors the trailer’s tone as he references the Bat-Signal amid brutal vigilante justice.
• A fiery car chase sees the muscle-car Batmobile ram Oswald Cobblepot’s vehicle before Batman walks through the flames toward the wreckage.

A Second-Year Detective, Not a Finished Hero

Reeves and co-writer Peter Craig set their story in Bruce Wayne’s second year fighting crime, and the trailer plays like a procedural more than an origin tale. Pattinson’s Batman isn’t polished — he’s grinding through Gotham’s rot, chasing a killer who leaves riddles behind rather than bodies alone. Jeffrey Wright’s James Gordon works alongside him as the one cop in the GCPD willing to trust a masked vigilante, while Andy Serkis’ Alfred Pennyworth grounds Bruce Wayne’s isolation at Wayne Manor.

The trailer’s most quoted action beat has Batman walking unimpeded through heavy automatic gunfire before erupting into close-quarters combat — a sequence that plays less like a superhero set piece and more like a home invasion scene shot from the monster’s point of view. That’s the register Reeves is aiming for throughout.

Paul Dano’s Riddler Sets the Tone

Where past screen versions of Edward Nashton leaned into camp, Paul Dano’s Riddler is presented as a methodical, sadistic serial killer targeting Gotham’s corrupt power structure. The diner arrest that opens the trailer, with the question-mark coffee cup left behind as a calling card, signals a character built more like a cipher-obsessed predator than a comic-book prankster.

It’s not just a call… It’s a warning.

That line, delivered by Pattinson over shots of the Bat-Signal cutting through Gotham’s rain, has become the trailer’s defining moment — turning a rescue beacon into a threat aimed squarely at the city’s criminal class.

Kravitz’s Catwoman and Farrell’s Unrecognizable Penguin

Zoë Kravitz’s Selina Kyle enters as an uneasy ally rather than a straightforward romantic foil, teaming with Batman against a common enemy while keeping her own agenda close. Colin Farrell, buried under prosthetics as Oswald Cobblepot, is nearly unrecognizable — his Penguin gets the trailer’s biggest action payoff when Batman’s Batmobile rams his car during the fiery chase sequence, ending with Batman striding through the wreckage’s flames.

John Turturro’s Carmine Falcone and Peter Sarsgaard’s district attorney Gil Colson round out a Gotham built on institutional rot rather than costumed villainy alone, while Jayme Lawson’s mayoral candidate Bella Reál hints at the political stakes running underneath the case.

The Craft Behind the Camera

Cinematographer Greig Fraser, fresh off “Dune,” shot the film with the same shadow-heavy, practical-lighting instincts he’s known for, and composer Michael Giacchino’s original score threads through the trailer’s quieter moments as much as its action beats. Editors William Hoy and Tyler Nelson cut the footage to emphasize dread over momentum — there’s barely a wide shot of Gotham that isn’t drenched in rain or smoke.

Warner Bros. has plenty of other DC and genre trailers circulating the same news cycle — fans comparing notes on “The Batman” alongside previews for Marvel Studios’ “Moon Knight” and Paramount+’s “Halo” series adaptation — but Reeves’ film is the one drawing comparisons to detective fiction rather than superhero spectacle.

With March 4, 2022 locked in as the release date, the next real test is whether Reeves can stretch this noir mood across nearly three hours without losing the tension the trailer built in under three minutes. That’s the bet Warner Bros. just made in front of the entire DC FanDome crowd.