How many different actors have played Batman?

Meet the new Batman. Robert Pattinson, known to play the vampire Edward Cullen in Dusk, will portray the Caped Crusader in the next movie The Batman, Deadline reported.

Matt Reeves will lead Pattinson in the film, which will focus on Bruce Wayne's formative years. The film will begin pre-production this summer and should be released on June 25, 2021.

Pattinson takes on the role of Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck is the newest actor to play Batman on the big screen. In 2017, Justice League. Initially, he would also play and lead The Batman. But after playing the character in three movies, he decided to leave the superhero franchise. (Affleck also appeared in Batman v. Superman: The Dawn of Justice and Suicide team.)

"I tried to make a version and worked with a very good scriptwriter, but I was unable to create a version, I could not decipher it," he said. Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier this year. "Then I thought it was time to let someone else try it again. They have very good people so I'm excited. "

Pattinson will be the ninth actor to play Batman in a real action movie

Batman made his cartoon debut in 1939, and he soon moved it from print to film. Pattinson is actually the ninth actor to have portrayed the character in a real action movie.

The first of many Batman movies arrived in 1943, with Lewis G. Wilson in the lead role of the millionaire turned crime fighter in a 15-episode series.

Robert Lowery was the second actor to respond to Bat Signal. He played in the 1949 series Batman and Robin. After that, there was a gap of nearly two decades before the public could see Bruce Wayne again in the poster.

In 1966, Adam West made Batman his when he started playing the character of the clbadic Batman TV shows. He also put his tights in the same year to Batman: The movie.

Batman since the 1960s

After West's turn as Caped Crusader, Batman was away for two decades. But he came back in 1989 with Tim Burton Batman, with Michael Keaton as the main character. Keaton took over the role in the 1992 sequel Batman returns.

When Joel Schumacher took over the franchise in 1995, the public also has a new Batman, Val Kilmer posing as Batman Forever. But his stay in Gotham City was short, and when 1997 Batman & Robin was released, George Clooney took the role. This widely criticized movie was a box office bomb and plans for a sequel were canceled.

Fortunately, the series restarted in 2005 with Batman begins. Christian Bale played the blockbuster Bruce Wayne then came back for The black Knight and The black knight stands up.

Four years after Bale hung up his cloak, Affleck made his debut with DC Universe in Batman v. Superman. Now, Pattinson is ready to play the role.

But before The Batman arrives in the theaters, another actor will play the character Bruce Wayne. Dante Pereira-Olson was chosen as a young Bruce Wayne in Joker (with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role). He is coming on October 4, 2019.

Other actors of Batman

Basel, Keaton and Affleck are just a few of the many men who brought Batman to life. Several other actors have played the character in animated films, television series and video games.

Will Arnett played Batman in The LEGO movie, The LEGO Batman movie, and The movie LEGO 2. Kevin Conroy expressed the character in Batman: The animated series in the mid-1990s and Rino Romano in The Batman, another series of animation. David Mazouz plays the young Bruce Wayne in the series of scenes of real action Gotham. And additional actors played the character in cartoons and additional video games.