The Batman: Watch the dark, brutal new trailer featuring Robert Pattinson

DC FanDome featured panels stacked with big names this weekend, inclusive Robert Pattinson and director Matt Reeves at The Batman barren. They deliver massively, showing The Batman’s first major trailer for the DC Comics movie shelf before the end of next year.

The new DC FanDome imagery is dark, brutal and, yes, mysterious. We see in one scene that Pattinson’s Dark Knight will bring a fierce, unrelenting fighting style. Trying to figure out what his role is in combating Gotham’s evil, he’s not sure how he fits in with Gotham PD.

“We’ll see Batman grow, make mistakes … and become flawed,” Reeves said during the panel. “We also see him as the greatest detective in the world.”

We also have glimpses of Zoe Kravitz playing Catwoman, John Turturro as Gotham mob boss Carmine Falcone, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth (well, we to hear his voice), Paul Dano as Riddler en Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon.

The cast also includes Colin Farrell as Penguin (a complete transformation turns out to be seen shortly in the trailer), Peter Sarsgaard as Gotham District Attorney Gil Colson and Jayme Lawson as Gotham Mayor candidate Bella Reál.

Reeves said during the panel that all the villains are just starting out so we will see Catwoman, Penguin and Riddler in the early stages of their criminal pursuit.

Plotwise, the pointer indicates that Batman will hunt down a shadowy hunter, after the noir-influenced comic strip of The Long Halloween that Falcone sees as he hires the Rogues Gallery of Batman villains, including Catwoman and Penguin, to take him down.

We will also find Batman in his young years – Year Two, to be exact. It is worth noting that the film will not take place on the same Earth as other DC films such as Justice League, Wonder Woman and Aquaman.

Reeves, best known from The Planet of the Apes films, fell a screen test of Pattinson rocking the cape earlier this year.

In the panel, Reeves also spoke briefly about the upcoming HBO Max spinoff series that centers on Year One when Gotham’s police department is embedded with corruption. The series will be from the point of view of a cop who wrestles with right and wrong while trying to save his own soul.