{"id":110522,"date":"2019-10-15T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=110522"},"modified":"2023-02-23T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:07:27","slug":"the-batman-casts-zoe-kravitz-as-catwoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-batman-casts-zoe-kravitz-as-catwoman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Batman casts Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a particularly juicy piece of casting news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/zoe-kravitz-catwoman-matt-reeves-the-batman-robert-pattinson\/\">The Wrap<\/a> brings word this week at Matt Reeves&#8217; upcoming film\u00a0<em><strong>The Batman\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>has cast Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman.<\/p>\n<p>Kravitz is known for her roles in films like\u00a0<em><strong>X-Men: First Class<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>The Divergent Series\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/strong><\/em>. More recently, she portrayed Leta Lestrange in both<em><strong> Fantastic Beasts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>films and Bonnie Carlson in hit HBO series\u00a0<em><strong>Big Little Lies<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Batman\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>won&#8217;t be the first time Kravitz has played Catwoman though: the actress provided the voice of Catwoman\/Selina Kyle in 2017 animation <em><strong>The Lego Batman Movie<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/source.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/source.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kravitz will be joining Robert Pattinson (<em><strong>Twilight<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>The Lighthouse<\/strong><\/em>) as Bruce Wayne\/Batman. Jonah Hill (<em><strong>Superbad<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>The Wolf Of Wall Street<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0was recently rumoured to be in talks for the role of villain The Riddler, while Jeffrey Wright (<em><strong>Westworld<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Marvel&#8217;s What If&#8230;?<\/strong><\/em>) is believed to be in negotiations for Commissioner Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be directed by Matt Reeves, who boarded the project following former director\/star Ben Affleck stepped away. Reeves is co-writing the screenplay with Mattson Tomlin, and Greig Fraser is serving as cinematographer.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Batman\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>will be in cinemas from 25 June 2021. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Kravitz has been cast as Catwoman opposite Robert Pattinson in The Batman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5414],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-16-at-5.28.18-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127647,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110522\/revisions\/127647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}