Robert Pattinson Opens Up About Batman’s “No Killing” Rule

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Batman is one of the best-known fictional characters of all time. Ever since Bob Kane and Bill Finger created the character back in 1939, the character became one of the biggest symbols of justice. And even though all the supervillains he encountered in his long history never really played by any rules, every fan of Caped Crusader knows that Batman has that one special rule — Batman does NOT kill!

Yeah, we know, you heard that like a zillion times. Of course, did Batman always strictly follow that rule? Hmmm not quite. Still, Christopher Nolan strictly focused on Batman’s no-killing rule in his The Dark Knight trilogy where Christian Bale played Batman, and it seems like Matt Reeves might follow the same example.

Robert Pattinson will play the titular character in Matt Reeves’ upcoming movie The Batman, which is the newest reboot of the Batman franchise. Reeves promised us a very dark movie that will walk on the thin line between a superhero movie and a horror movie, but Batman’s question of morality and cautiousness for human life will still maintain. Robert Pattinson now also opened up about that eternal question: Should Batman allow himself to intentionally take human life?

“There is this rule with Batman: he must not kill. It can be interpreted in two ways. Either he only wants to inflict the appropriate punishment, or he wants to kill and his self-control prevents him from doing so.” — Robert Pattinson for Premiere

The Batman is set to open in theaters on March 4. Directed by Matt Reeves, the movie is also starring Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell, and Paul Dano, who will play the movie’s main villain — The Riddler.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.