Earlier this month, we reported that Matt Reeves grew to become scheduled to satisfy with DC Studios’ new co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran about the way forward for the BatVerse—and it looks as if that meeting became a success. The sequel to The Batman is formally on the calendar, alongside the excellent slate of DCU movies and sequence that have been introduced at a wonderful-secret meeting with the press this week. Robert Pattinson’s caped crusader will return on October three, 2025.
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Along with revealing the discharge date for the notably anticipated sequel, Gunn moreover confirmed that Reeves is actively engaged on his “Batman Crime Saga,” which contains the Colin Farrell spin-off assortment The Penguin, which is about to start out filming subsequent month. As Reeves beforehand shared with Collider, The Penguin will directly tie into The Batman — Half II, and primarily lay the inspiration for the place issues are while audiences reunite with Bruce Wayne inside the movie. Beforehand, Reeves knowledgeable us that the sequel will keep Bruce Wayne on the coronary coronary heart of the story, sharing:
“To me, the factor that I actually really feel is that I additionally consider that Rob [Pattinson] is so particular within the function. My objective has all the time been to do these point-of-view tales that enable the character to all the time be the emotional heart of the story. As a result of a number of instances what occurs is, after you do the primary one, then all of the sudden different Rogues Gallery characters are available, and so they form of take over, after which Batman takes a backseat form of character-wise, or emotionally.”
Within the wake of the Gunn-Safran appointment, the sequel become already eyeing a 2025 launch date, so it’s a treatment to look that issues appear to be closing on target. Gunn appears more than happy with what Reeves has deliberate, saying, “Matt is working on [The Batman sequel], which he thinks of as a Batman Crime Saga, which additionally consists of [The Penguin] sequence, and it is its personal subject. He is troublesome at work on that. He bought right here in and pitched us some extraordinarily good, nearly cool stuff the choice day. So our plan is for that to carry.”
Safran moreover reaffirmed that The Batman is not going to be pushed apart in need of anyplace they plan to go along with their different Batman-centric tales, explaining that, “The Batman is not all the time a stepchild. It is all beneath DC, we’re completely invested contained in the success of The Batman, identical to we’re every part else.”
It could be a protracted means away, however The Batman — Half II will convey vengeance again to the silver show display screen on October three, 2025.
