Robert Pattinson Returning to Gotham: “The Batman Part II” Confirmed for 2027
Happy days are here again for fans of Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson’s The Batman, and we are legion.
The Batman Part II will begin filming early next year, with Reeves’ script for the sequel completed this past June. The goal is to get The Batman Part II into theaters on October 1, 2027. The news was revealed in a letter to shareholders on Thursday, and it included information about the upcoming DC Studios slate, both in and outside of Gotham.
Reeves and Pattinson’s original The Batman bowed in 2022 and was a critical and commercial hit, grossing over $770 million worldwide. It also spawned HBO’s Emmy-winning The Penguin, which continued the story of Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb that first began in The Batman. The series gobbled up 24 Emmy nominations.
Pattinson’s got a lot of meaty roles on the books right now—he re-teamed with Christopher Nolan, after co-starring in Tenet, for Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, and he’ll be a major part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Messiah. Yet for fans of Pattinson’s portrayal of Bruce Wayne, they’ve been waiting—not altogether patiently—for official confirmation that The Batman sequel was in the works, and now, three years after Pattinson’s last swing through Gotham, they’ve got it.
As for those DC Studios projects set outside of Gotham, the shareholder letter confirmed that Superman writer/director and co-chief of DC Studios, James Gunn, is working on Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2026), Clayface (2026), and the next Wonder Woman. Gunn and DC are currently flying high after Superman wowed audiences and critics alike.
And Gunn has been a vocal supporter of Reeves when frustrated fans protested the gap between The Batman and the pending sequel. As Gunn reminded them on social media, sequels often take a long time to write when you want to get them right.
“To be fair, a 5-year gap or more is fairly common in sequels,” Gunn wrote online. “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.”
Gunn went on:
“Let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs to write it. That’s just the way it is. He doesn’t owe you something because you like his movie. I mean, you like his movie because of Matt. So let Matt do things the way he does.”
Amen.
Featured image: Caption: ROBERT PATTINSON as Batman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “THE BATMAN,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Jonathan Olley/™ & © DC Comics
