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The Batman: Part II
Directed byMatt Reeves
Written by
Based onCharacters from DC
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyErik Messerschmidt
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • October 1, 2027 (2027-10-01)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Batman: Part II is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Directed by Matt Reeves from a screenplay he wrote with Mattson Tomlin, it is the sequel to The Batman (2022). Robert Pattinson stars as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell, Scarlett Johansson, and Sebastian Stan. The film sees Batman investigating further corruption following Gotham City's flooding. Reeves also produces the film with Dylan Clark and Lynn Harris for Warner Bros. Pictures, alongside Peter Safran and James Gunn of DC Studios.

A sequel to The Batman was announced in April 2022 with Reeves and Pattinson returning. Reeves and Tomlin were writing the script by January 2023, although the process was slow due to Reeves's meticulous approach. He had opted to keep his planned trilogy separate from DC Studios's main franchise, the DC Universe (DCU). The spin-off television series The Penguin (2024) helps set up the events of the film. After multiple delays to accommodate the lengthy writing process and the 2023 Hollywood strikes, the script was completed in June 2025. Pre-production commenced that August, and casting for new roles was underway by December. Filming is scheduled to start in early May 2026 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and Liverpool in England, as well as in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Batman: Part II is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on October 1, 2027, as part of the "DC Elseworlds" label.

Premise

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Following the flooding of Gotham City, Bruce Wayne / Batman investigates another case that further explores the corruption and division within the city.[1][2][3]

Cast

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Additionally, Barry Keoghan is expected to appear as the Joker, an enemy of Batman who is incarcerated in Arkham State Hospital,[13] alongside the characters Robin and Doctor Arkham.[14][15]

Production

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Development

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Interest and early work

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Warner Bros. Pictures intended for the standalone DC Comics–based film The Batman (2022) to begin a new trilogy of Batman films by May 2019.[16] Some cast members were signed on for future installments by November,[17] including Colin Farrell, who was attached to portray Oz Cobb / The Penguin in three Batman films.[8] By September 2021, The Batman director Matt Reeves and producer Dylan Clark planned for that film to establish a shared universe focused on the character Batman, which they referred to as the "Batman Epic Crime Saga", that would be separate from the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise.[18][19][20] Clark said The Batman would lay a foundation for future films to build upon while Batman actor Robert Pattinson had ideas for further developing his character.[21] Reeves had suggested to studio executives during production that a sequel could further explore the Penguin, but they instead wanted to use that idea for a spin-off series, The Penguin (2024),[22] which was expected to setup a sequel to that film.[18][23][24] Pattinson and Reeves expressed interest in introducing the character Robin as well as featuring the Court of Owls group or the characters Calendar Man, Mr. Freeze, and Hush as villains in a sequel.[25]

In April 2022, Discovery, Inc. merged with WarnerMedia, the owner of DC and Warner Bros., to form Warner Bros. Discovery, led by president and CEO David Zaslav. The new company was expected to restructure DC Entertainment, and Zaslav began searching for an equivalent to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to lead the new subsidiary.[26] A sequel to The Batman was announced to be in development at Warner Bros.' CinemaCon panel later that month, when Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich said the "entire team" would return from the first film, including Reeves as writer and director and Pattinson as the star.[4] Negotiations for Reeves's return had lasted longer than expected because a deal was not guaranteed under the new Warner Bros. Discovery leadership,[27] but he signed his production company 6th & Idaho Productions to an overall film production deal with Warner Bros. Pictures in August that included his work on the sequel to The Batman. This deal was seen as a reassurance that the studio was committed to supporting filmmakers, following the shelving of the nearly completed DCEU film Batgirl.[28][29] Clark and Mattson Tomlin, an uncredited writer on The Batman, returned to work with Reeves on the sequel as a producer and co-writer, respectively.[27][28] Reeves and Tomlin wanted to elevate the sequel from the first film and were expected to start writing in the following weeks.[30][27]

In October 2022, Reeves was meeting with writers and directors for several film and television series spin-offs from The Batman that were in early development alongside the sequel and centered on members of Batman's rogues gallery, such as Scarecrow, Clayface, and Professor Pyg.[31] Later that month, writer and director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran, who had both worked on multiple DCEU projects, were hired to serve as the co-chairmen and co-CEOs of the new subsidiary DC Studios. They began overseeing all DC Comics adaptations moving forward, including Reeves's The Batman sequel,[32][33] which was not expected to be released until 2025 at the earliest, while Reeves continued work on the script.[34] In November, Zaslav said there would not be multiple versions of Batman moving forward,[35] while Reeves, Gunn, and Safran subsequently discussed how they could avoid their plans from clashing.[36][37] The latter two briefly considered integrating Pattinson's Batman into DC Studio's main franchise, the DC Universe (DCU), which Gunn initially denied,[38][39][40] but they respected Reeves's decision to keep his plans separate from the DCU.[41][40]

Reeves and Tomlin were writing the script by January 2023,[42] when DC Studios announced that the sequel was titled The Batman – Part II and gave it a release date of October 3, 2025. It was set under the "DC Elseworlds" label, which is for projects that do not fit into the main DCU continuity. At the same time, a separate DCU Batman film was announced as The Brave and the Bold.[43] In February 2023, filming was scheduled to start that November at DC Studios's production hub at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in England,[44][45] and Reeves confirmed that Andy Serkis would reprise his role as Alfred Pennyworth.[7] By March, Clayface was expected to appear in the film,[46] which Gunn later denied;[47] Reeves was subsequently attached to produce DC Studios projects for the "Crime Saga" and the DCU, including the DCU film Clayface (2026).[48][49] Barry Keoghan was also expected to reprise his role as the Joker, after briefly appearing in The Batman, but he later denied this.[50][51]

Writing and production delays

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Picture of writer and director Matt Reeves at the 2014 WonderCon, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Director and co-writer Matt Reeves was meticulously committed to perfecting the script, which contributed to the film's delays.

By June 2023, the start of filming was delayed until March 2024 due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, but the release date was not expected to be affected.[52] Reeves and The Batman cinematographer Greig Fraser had discussed working on the sequel,[30] but pre-production was put on hold until the writers' strike ended in late September, when work was expected to resume imminently.[53] Gunn heard a pitch for the film by December,[41] and Reeves was expected to turn in a draft of the script by early February 2024, ahead of casting and a filming start scheduled between August and October 2024.[54][55] In early 2024, Jeffrey Wright said he would reprise his role as Jim Gordon and indicated that the character would be elevated from a Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) lieutenant.[56][6] In March, the film's release date was delayed to October 2, 2026, due to two concurrent strikes in Hollywood during 2023,[57] which had caused several central sound stages intended for the production to be reserved through the end of 2024. As a result, filming was not expected to begin until April 2025, but the delay gave Reeves more time to write.[58][55] In July, Reeves confirmed that Farrell would return as the Penguin,[9] to appear in five or six scenes.[8]

As a meticulous filmmaker, Reeves was committed to perfecting the script and described the writing process as slow as a result.[59][60] He had shared parts of the script with DC Studios between the middle and end of 2024, but would not submit a first draft or full script until he believed it was ready.[47][61][1][62] Reeves said the sequel would follow Batman investigating another case that further explores the corruption and division within Gotham City following the events of The Batman and The Penguin,[1][2] amidst the city's slow recovery from its flooding by the Riddler in the former;[3] Part II occurs a few weeks after The Penguin.[63] In September, Reeves stated that he was finishing the script and that he was unsure if Fraser would return due to his busy schedule.[64][1] Production was still expected to start in 2025.[65][1][66][67] At the end of December 2024, the film's release date was delayed to October 1, 2027, to allow more time for writing the full script.[60][68] The film was reportedly left untitled,[60] but Reeves and DC Studios still referred to it as The Batman Part II.[69][70][71] At that time, filming was expected to start in the third quarter of 2025 and rely heavily on visual effects,[72][60] while Fraser had chosen to return for Reeves's sequel after passing on Dune: Part Three (2026) due to the films' conflicting production schedules.[66] Zoë Kravitz was also indicated to be reprising her role as Catwoman,[59] but she was later not expected to return.[73] Following rumors that Pattinson's portrayal of Batman could be integrated into the DCU, Reeves stated in January 2025 that this was not planned and that he was focused on making Part II and his "Crime Saga", but was receptive to the idea if it was reasonable to do.[69] Gunn stated that such an integration had not been seriously discussed and was unlikely to happen,[70][40] and he did not expect Reeves's sequel to be released in the same calendar year as The Brave and the Bold.[74] That film's director Andy Muschietti said DC Studios had a strategy to ensure that the two films did not conflict with each other.[75]

By February 2025, filming for Part II was expected to start at the end of 2025,[76][77] but was soon moved until January or March 2026,[78][79][80][3] after Pattinson's commitments to The Odyssey (2026) and Dune: Part Three.[81][80] Reeves had submitted several pages of the script for over half a year by the middle of May, when the first full draft was reportedly expected to be delivered by the end of that month.[82] Shortly after, the script was expected by late June, over a year after Gunn and Safran's original expectation.[80][71] Gunn defended the delays, citing Reeves's meticulous writing process and the sufficient time provided, similar to The Batman.[80][83][71] Gunn also debunked further rumors of the sequel being canceled and reaffirmed that Reeves's "Crime Saga" was important to DC Studios.[83][71][40] Matthew Belloni of Puck reported that the film's delays had frustrated some executives, including Zaslav, but he debunked rumors that the studio was prepared to "move on" from Reeves if he did not soon finish writing. Belloni noted that Reeves had been dealing with personal issues during the sequel's development, but that the film was still intended to make its release date, as long as production proceeded smoothly.[80] Reeves and Tomlin announced that the script was completed at the end of June,[84] when the film was titled The Batman: Part II.[85][86] The script was submitted to DC Studios by the middle of July.[87] Reeves soon explained that the production of Part II took longer than he wanted due to various factors, including personal reasons, and to ensure that the script had gotten to a point where he and Tomlin were proud of it. Because Reeves sought to ensure the film's mystery plot remained secret, he sent the script to the cast and crew in a highly secure locked pouch that was only accessible via a code.[88][89]

Pre-production

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In August 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that pre-production had begun on The Batman: Part II and that filming would commence within the first few months of 2026.[90][3] Production design, costume design, and visual effects preparations were underway, while casting was scheduled to start in late 2025.[3][91] Journalist Jeff Sneider reported that the character Robin was featured in the script,[14] which Gunn denied.[92] Reeves stated in September that he expected to start filming around the end of April or the beginning of May 2026.[89] He added that while The Batman was focused on Batman's vigilante identity, Part II would center on his Bruce Wayne alter ego more than prior Batman films because of the mystery and detective story, for which Reeves decided to feature an antagonist that had not been used in previous live-action feature films.[93][88] Production designer Luke Hull was hired at the end of October.[94] By late November, he was scouting locations, including Glasgow Cathedral and Anderston railway station in Glasgow, Scotland.[95] Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, who previously shot an advertisement for the virtual reality game Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024), was hired in early December, after Fraser was unable to return due to his commitments to The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event (2028).[96][97] Filming was slated to start in May 2026,[98] with Gunn, Safran, and Reeves's 6th & Idaho partner, Lynn Harris, also producing.[99][100]

Scarlett Johansson in 2025
Sebastian Stan in 2024
Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan were the first new additions to the cast.

Scarlett Johansson entered final negotiations to join the cast in early December 2025.[10] Her role was reported by Sneider to be Gilda Gold, the wife of Harvey Dent, and was expected to be a love interest or an antagonist of Batman.[99][15] Sneider added that Johansson had been looking for a darker role after portraying typically heroic characters—such as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in the rivaling Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise from 2010 to 2021—and that she began vigorously pursuing the part after Emma Stone declined an offer, but first adjusted her earlier commitments to a new Exorcist film (2027) to accommodate the schedule for The Batman: Part II;[99] this caused Johansson to pass on the live-action Tangled film.[101] Sneider further reported that Johansson had potentially agreed to a reduced salary upfront in exchange for back-end compensation based on the film's performance;[99] the character Doctor Arkham would have a small role; and that casting was underway for the major roles of Harvey Dent and his abusive and alcoholic father Christopher Dent, whom Reeves had approached Brad Pitt to portray before a scheduling conflict arose with his role in the film The Riders.[15] Johansson's MCU co-star Sebastian Stan entered negotiations to portray Harvey Dent in January 2026,[11][12] when Keoghan was reaffirmed for an expected appearance as the Joker.[13]

Filming

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Filming was initially planned to start in November 2023,[44] but this was delayed multiple times while Reeves committed to perfecting the script,[85][88] in part due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes.[53] Principal photography is scheduled to start at the beginning of May 2026,[89][98] with Erik Messerschmidt as the cinematographer.[96] Filming will primarily take place at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden as well as in Liverpool, England, and Glasgow, Scotland, for exterior shots.[95]

Post-production

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Planning for the visual effects work during post-production began by the start of pre-production in August 2025.[3]

Release

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The Batman: Part II is scheduled to be theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on October 1, 2027, in IMAX,[72][85] as part of the "DC Elseworlds" label.[43] The film was originally scheduled to be released on October 3, 2025,[43] before it was delayed to October 2, 2026, due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes,[57] followed by a further delay to the 2027 release date to allow more time for writing.[60][68]

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