We’ve some excellent news and (doubtlessly) unhealthy information referring to Warner Bros./DC’s long-awaited sequel to The Batman: The film is lastly anticipated to start filming subsequent March, however it appears there’s an opportunity director Matt Reeves might not return to take the helm.
As you possibly can see under, Reeves isn’t listed within the newest Manufacturing Weekly report.
This might merely be an oversight, however we do know that the filmmaker has been coping with some private points (we can’t get into the rumors) which may forestall him from committing to the film if the studio is set to forge forward with none additional delays.
We discover it laborious to consider that WB would substitute Reeves with one other director simply to get issues shifting, until he determined to step away and gave his blessing?
Jeff Sneider addressed the scenario on tonight’s episode of (*2*), and whereas he clarified that he does not know whether or not Reeves remains to be on board or not, he stated he “would not be shocked” if the following time we see the Darkish Knight on the massive display screen is within the DCU (he speculates that James Gunn is perhaps engaged on a new Superman/Batman film).
Little bizarre that the newest concern of Manufacturing Weekly doesn’t embody a director for THE BATMAN PART II… pic.twitter.com/faet5uHlF7
— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) May 7, 2025
The Batman: Half II begins manufacturing in March, 2026. Birthday month let’s go! #thebatman pic.twitter.com/nG6iIJUaxZ
— Robert Pattinson’s Oscar Marketing campaign Supervisor (@candykizzes24) May 7, 2025
Late final 12 months, we received the disappointing information that the film had been hit with one other delay and wouldn’t arrive till October 1, 2027. DC Studios co-head James Gunn claimed that the virtually year-long setback was merely all the way down to the truth that the script hasn’t been completed, however it sounds just like the filmmaker has now, on the very least, cracked the general story.
In a current interview, star Robert Pattinson revealed that he does know what The Batman sequel shall be about, whereas additionally addressing the information that the film has been pushed into 2027.
“Matt is a really cautious author [laughs]… however I lastly now know what it is about. It’s totally cool and I am very excited.”
Lots of followers and trade insiders stay satisfied that Pattinson will in the end keep on because the DCU’s Darkish Knight for the deliberate The Courageous and the Daring film. Folding the Batverse into the DCU may take advantage of sense, if for no different cause than to keep away from having two separate Batman franchises working alongside one another. By the point The Batman sequel truly hits theaters in 2027, there’s positive to have been no less than some progress on The Courageous and The Daring.
Gunn and Peter Safran refuted the Pattinson rumors through the current DCU slate replace, though it is perhaps telling that the Superman director would not outright state that the Mickey 17 actor wouldn’t play Batman in The Courageous and The Daring, merely noting that it was “not possible.”
Here is what Reeves needed to say concerning the sequel throughout January’s Golden Globes.
“I can inform you that we’ll be taking pictures this 12 months and that we’re enthusiastic about it. I am unable to actually inform you something about it besides that we’re actually excited. We’re persevering with the story. I am actually excited to be making it, to get our solid again collectively, to get new folks concerned, and we’re actually enthusiastic about it.”
“What I am enthusiastic about is I really feel like we’re doing one thing that completely continues the place the story got here from however is one thing that I hope individuals are going to be actually shocked by,” he added.
