We’re going to have to wait a good while longer to see Robert Pattinson’s emo Bruce Wayne return to the big screen…
Warner Bros. have announced an amended release date for the next instalment of The Batman (which was previously called The Batman: Part II but is now apparently untitled according to The Hollywood Reporter).
Via Deadline, the sequel to 2022’s The Batman will hit cinemas on October 1, 2027, with production on the Matt Reeves movie beginning at some point this year.
DC Studios co-head honcho James Gunn has offered his thoughts and reasoning for why we won’t get to see Robert Pattinson going emo for another couple of years, explaining on Instagram Threads that long gaps between sequels are “fairly common”.
“7 years between Alien and Aliens. 14 years between Incredibles. 7 years between the first two Terminators. 13 years between Avatars. 36 years between Top Guns. And, of course, 6 years between Guardians Vol 2 and Vol 3.”
James also confirmed that this particular delay is down to the fact that “there isn’t a full script” just yet.
“Matt is committed to making the best film he possibly can, and no-one can accurately guess exactly how long a script will take to write. Once there is a finished script, there is around two years for pre-production, shooting and post-production on big films.”
In a November 2024 interview with THR, Matt said of the forthcoming film and if it’s going to be impacted at all by the recent The Penguin TV series: “The movie is very much a Batman movie, so its focus is on Batman and Bruce. It’s very much taking Rob Pattinson through this this next leg and how the Rogues Gallery fits into that. So a lot of that was already in place by the time we were getting the dailies.
“But there are absolutely certain ways in which it has affected it. It gave us ideas and we’re going, ‘Oh, we could do this.’ But we’re still talking about the bigger picture and the future and what a second season of The Penguin might look like. You go through a process where you do something and have feelings about them, and then you see it go into the world and it’s no longer your baby. It belongs to the audience. To see them connect to Sofia [Falcone, played by Cristin Milioti], of course, makes us think, ‘There’s more there.’ So again, I can’t tell you what it is. We don’t know yet. We’re just starting to figure that out.”
