The only other option I had would take a lot more time to make work, but it WOULD work. Then, when I went to take the suit off, the foam started peeling off.īack to the drawing board I went. I even had two layers of shirts under it and it went through it all. Strapped it on with belts to keep it tight. In order to really have the pieces glued in the right place, I would need to be wearing it and waiting. The setting time for most fabric glues is at least an hour, usually more like 4. As can be seen in the picture, it didn't really work. As Halloween approached I got more and more worried that I wasn't going to be able to make this project work. Many people were saying to glue it directly to the suit, though there wasn't a lot of agreement on which type of glue was best. I got on many different costuming websites to see what others had done to attach foam to the fabric. Again, it's one of the endless reasons why The Batman is showing up on many critics and fans “Top 10 Films” list this year.This was the biggest challenge of the project. Dillon and Crossman knocked it out of the Bat-park with this epic, rugged feeling, costume. It retains the black and gray color scheme from Batman’s 80-plus-year history, but at the same time, it looks like it could have been made from the GCPD's weapons stash. This Batsuit is the perfect marriage between the comics and our real scary world. Dillon finished by saying, “but we liked the idea that he would use stuff that cops would use, leather ammo packs and handcuff holders etc… it feels much closer to ‘Special Forces’ than Spandex.” “For instance, his utility belt in the comics is yellow or gold and that’s carried through to most of the films,” he said. Dillon points to the utility belt as a prime example. RELATED: 'The Batman': Falcone & Maroni Crime Families Explainedįinally, while the suit was inspired by the comics, the main focus of this version was, again, practicality. “Because printing and molding the stitches didn’t look good enough, so the tiny stitch holes were sculpted in the computer, and then we had the amazing team in Jenny Alford’s workshop putting the stitches in by hand.” If that wasn’t enough, the suit was made with nylon to give a Kevlar bulletproof look to it and the cape was made from Japanese faux leather for a fierce weighty appearance. However, Dillon adds “It was sewed by hand. “It was important to have a more neutral expression on the cowl,” Dillon explained and continued to say, “I thought it would be cool if the cowl had the stillness of a skull, and that meant Robert was free to do more with his eyes.” The suit looked like leather, but like past Batsuits it was 3D-printed molded rubber. Due to this, the pair didn’t want the hero’s cape and cowl to be a distraction. That means our favorite hero does a lot of standing around, solving clues and Riddles with his partner in crime Commissioner Gordon. The Batman brings the character back to his "Detective Comics" roots. Refocusing back on the film’s unique detective angle and Riddler-centric puzzles, Batman does more than fight in the latest film. However, The Batman took the practicality even further with the cape turning into a wingsuit, similar to Nolan’s Batman’s “memory cloth” cape, and his classic bat emblem doubling as a removable blade. Like Nolan’s Dark Knight suit, the separate Cowl and neck pieces help Pattinson’s “World’s Greatest Detective” standout in the shadows. Practicality and mobility were the main concerns.” Batman in the past has had trouble “backing out of the driveway”. He continued on, “and importantly, it had to be a suit that Robert could move and fight in. “Matt definitely wanted the suit to be utilitarian,” Dillon said. Everything on the suit needed to have a purpose. That’s definitely reflected in Pattinson’s look. They started off by going into the keys of every Batman design.“There are four crucial ingredients to a Batsuit,” says Dillon and continued, “The cape, the cowl, the utility belt and the all-important insignia, or bat symbol.” The Batman, more so than even Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, was the most grounded take on the character fans have seen on the big screen to date. Now in a larger piece by Deadline detailing all of 2022’s best supersuits, costume designers Glyn Dillon and David Crossman talked about what went into redesigning The Dark Knight’s classic look. This includes the iconic Batsuit worn by Robert Pattinson. There are many reasons why, but one of the visual keys was all the amazing costumes seen throughout the rainy streets of Gotham. Even though The Batman came out early this year in March, the Matt Reeves’ directed crime epic remains one of the very best cinematic experiences of the year.
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