BATTY ROB CHANNELS ROCKER KURT COBAIN

When it came to choosing the next bigscreen Batman, ROB PATTINSON rocked! Director MATT REEVES says the Twilight bloodsucker’s moody KURT COBAIN vibe is perfect for the Caped Crusader. Reeves explains: “It came to me that, rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version we’ve seen before, there’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse — the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor. He’s also got that Kurt Cobain thing, where he looks like a rock star, but you also feel like he could be a recluse.” As for Rob’s grungier Batsuit, the 35-year-old star explains: “He’s been out every single night for two years, getting beaten up and shot and stabbed and burnt, and it shows. There’s a bullet graze on the cowl, right at the beginning. I don’t think that’s been done before.” Sounds, well, bats! me and Andrew … I woke up and said, ‘Hey, Jonathan, I really could use you today … So, if you want this to be good, I think you should show up.” And PRESTO! “On set that day when we got to that scene, Andrew and I looked at each other, and it was like something entered the room … no one had to name it when it did. We could see in each other’s eyes; we’d get goose bumps and just keep working.”