The Batman trailer: First look at Robert Pattinson as caped crusader

Robert Pattinson as The Batman. Photo / Supplied

The trailer for The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, has been released.

The film is also set to star Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as Riddler, Colin Farrell as Penguin and Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon.

The trailer for The Batman was released today despite the fact only 30 per cent of the film has been shot.

Production had to shut down in March due to Covid-19 and isn't expected to resume until September.

The movie is being directed by Matt Reeves who said at DC FanDome that the upcoming film won't be an origin tale.

"You're meeting him in the early days," he said about Batman in the new film. "And, for me, what's really important about this iteration is that, you know, a lot of the other stories are very much about how he had to master his fear, and master himself, in order to become Batman. And that in that Batman state, he's sort of in his best self.

"I think, for me, what was exciting was not doing that — not doing the origin, not doing what we'd seen done so beautifully in other movies, but instead to meet him in the middle of this criminological experiment, to see him in the becoming of Batman, and to see him make mistakes as Batman, and see him grow and fail and be heroic, do all of the things that we associate with Batman, but in a way that felt very human and very flawed."

The Batman is slated for release in October, 2021.