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 "This is bizarre to me,"
Pattinson, 35, said on the red carpet for a
London screening of "The Batman" on Wednesday.
"I'd be so curious what my childhood self would
think of this."
Pattinson, who rose to global fame with the
"Twilight" movies, follows in the footsteps of
Adam West, Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton, Christian
Bale and more recently Ben Affleck among others,
to play Bruce Wayne/Batman.
"I mean the legacy of the actors who played
(Batman), they've all been such massive parts of
my life and my interest in film and why I wanted
to be an actor in the first place," Pattinson
said.
"It's just incredible to be a part of the same
coterie," he said, noting that acting with a
mask on was "surprisingly difficult. "I grew up
on Adam West (playing Batman). I think my
costume when I was a kid was an Adam West one."
In the movie, Batman investigates corruption in
Gotham following the murders of several of
senior figures by sadistic serial killer, the
Riddler.
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 "There are great Batman movies
and it's a character that everyone loves ... so
for me you don't approach it without a heavy
dose of terror," director Matt Reeves said.
"In certain ways it's a psychological horror
movie, it's a thriller, it's a serial killer
movie and it's also a kind of a grand love
story."
The cast also includes Colin Farrell, Andy
Serkis and Paul Dano. Zoë Kravitz plays Selina
Kyle/Catwoman.
"Matt ... really wanted to explore Selina as a
three-dimensional human being and to meet her so
early in the story before she's Catwoman is
something we haven't necessarily seen before,"
Kravitz said.
"The Batman" begins its global rollout from
March 1.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Richard
Chang)
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