This is from metro.co.uk
Colin Farrell is "excited" about the script for Matt Reeves' upcoming film The Batman.
The actor is set to play Batman villain the Penguin opposite Robert Pattinson as the titular character.
Colin has been talking up the script to SFX magazine, teasing that fans can expect something "unique and new" yet familiar at the same time.
Farrell: The whole prospect is really exciting. I'm ecstatic to be part of that universe. There are certain words that are part of my internal lexicon and those words are Gotham City, Penguin,
Joker, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent... all of those things.
I have been watching the Batman films with my kids, but this script is something that feels incredibly original. It leans into it but it doesn't borrow; it's born of the mythology of that
character, Bruce Wayne, Batman and Gotham. But it feels like a treatment and a version that I hadn't seen before.
Matt Reeves has done an incredible job of keeping it familiar and at the same time unique and new. It's really exciting to be a part of it.
He added that he has seen Danny DeVito's version of Penguin in the 1992 film Batman Returns, calling it "incredible".
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R-Pattz's co-stars have been talking up the man himself with Zoe Kravitz telling Variety: "First of all, he's just a really good actor. He started out as this kind of teen pop sensation, and then I think
we all kind of saw through his work that there was a lot more going on."
Farrell: He's a really interesting artist, and that is very much Batman in a way.
We have the illusion of Bruce Wayne, and then we have Batman in the shadows that has a lot more complicated things going on. So just in that, I think he's perfect for this role. He can relate in that way,
and he looks good in the suit, man.
The Batman is set for release in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic put a stop to production.
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