The Batman. Winter played Bill S. Preston, Esq. across from Keanu Reeves' Ted "Theodore" Logan in the 1989 sci-fi comedy, which became a significant hit and generated two sequels. Kravitz, meanwhile, will be the latest version of Selina Kyle's comic book villain in The Batman, which is scheduled to hit theaters on March 4, 2022.
Interest is high in the Matt Reeves-directed DC movie, which will introduce Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader in the early days of his vigilantism, a standalone interpretation that has no bearing on the DCEU continuity. The trailers released so far hint at an intensely dark take on the hero (which is really saying something), and though Kravitz's Catwoman is just one of many Batman villains set to appear, fans are wondering how the film will interpret her character. It doesn't sound like The Batman will be entirely shooting for realism, as Kravitz has said she studied the fighting styles of real cats as prep, indicating her Catwoman is no simple cat-burglar.
While it's possible her research ends up paying off in the final product, it is a little funny on the surface, and Winter found a hilarious way of pointing that out. Referencing his role in the Bill & Ted franchise, the actor and documentarian tweeted in apparent jealousy of the attention Kravitz's quote has received from the press. The research he did for his role as the time-travelling teen, Winter says, was unfairly overlooked. Check out his original post below:
Though Winter has been relatively out of the spotlight compared to his co-star Reeves, whose The Matrix Resurrections releases in theaters and on HBO Max today, the pair did reunite for a sequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music, just last year. The film revisits the characters' supposed destiny as the writers of music that becomes the foundation for humanity's future utopian society, and posits that, with Bill and Ted now firmly in middle-age, they still haven't managed to realize it. Belated sequels of once-loved properties don't always succeed in today's Hollywood, but this film was warmly received by critics, who considered it an improvement on 1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
Winter's playful Bill & Ted jab is certainly amusing, though DC fans are surely hoping Kravitz's performance won't be such an easy target. Comic book adaptations exist on a sliding-scale of the serious and the ridiculous, and while both approaches work when done well, the last time a Batman movie really embraced its silliness - 1997's Batman & Robin - wasn't exactly well-received. However, in a film like The Batman, which features a version of Riddler based on the real-life Zodiac Killer, audiences can hardly expect to see Kravitz go overboard with Selina Kyle's feline traits.
Source: Alex Winter
