Bad news, Dark Knight fans: batman part 2 After all, it won't be released until the end of 2025.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has announced in a press release (as spotted by Deadline) that the 2022 sequel the batman has been bumped from its previously confirmed release date of October 3, 2025. The highly anticipated comic book movie starring Robert Pattinson was set to sneak into theaters before Halloween 2025, but its release was delayed a year to October 2, 2026. Deadline suggests the shakeup is an aftereffect of the 2023 Hollywood writers' strike.
Going from being 15 years old watching the first trailer for The Batman to being 21 years old when Part 2 comes out pic.twitter.com/x1JyMIfONwMarch 12, 2024
the batmanDirector Matt Reeves confirmed that the sequel was in development at CinemaCon 2022, which wasn't a surprise to anyone who saw that movie. In our review of the batmanwe call it “an incredibly meticulous, tension-filled DCEU [DC Extended Universe] film that doesn't lose sight of the iconic vigilante's comic book roots” and said it was “another standout entry in the ever-expanding Caped Crusader film franchise.” Based on its 85% reviews and 87% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Many viewers agreed with our sentiments.
Although it has been in development for almost two years, we actually know very little about batman part 2. We know Reeves will direct the film, that Pattinson will return as DC's iconic vigilante, and that fanatic sleuths might have discovered the batman villain of the sequel long before his time. However, those bits of information aside, the film is shrouded in a veil of mystery. Read our guide at the batman The ending is also explained to see what it sets up before the eventual release of its successor.
Speaking recently to French publication comicsblog.fr, Matt Tomlin, who co-wrote the first film and worked on the sequel's script, suggested that a sequel script was in the works. In light of last year's strike, this is not a surprise, and is likely the reason why the WBD has delayed batman 2Release for 12 months. However, with filming rumored to begin in August (according to Production Weekly), the script might be further along than we think.
Looking for some room to breathe
batman part 2The revised release date is good news for its cast and crew, who won't have to rush development to meet the originally planned release date of late 2025. But they face another potentially complicated problem: causing confusion, with the possible arrival of two bat Man movies very close to each other.
You see, Reeves bat Man universe – which includes its eventual the batman trilogy, plus two television spin-offs in The Penguin and a series set in Arkham Asylum (both will air on Max in the US), exist independently of James Gunn's rebooted DC Cinematic Universe (DCU). Essentially, Gunn's line of movies and TV shows will replace the now-defunct DCEU. Meanwhile, Reeves bat ManThe DC-based projects will fall under the umbrella of DC Elseworlds, a collection of DC superhero productions, including the one starring Joaquin Phoenix. joker 2that will exist outside of the DCU.
Well, what's the problem? There's the small matter that one of Gunn's DCU Chapter One films will, perhaps unsurprisingly given his popularity, have Batman as its protagonist. Is called The brave and the Brave (one of the four DCU projects we're most excited about), and will be inspired by the comic book series starring Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin, which ran from 2006 to 2013. The film will reportedly be directed by Andy Muschietti , who directed 2023 The flash movie.
Now, it is very unlikely that batman part 2 and The brave and the Brave Both will hit theaters in 2026; After all, the latter still has no scriptwriter or confirmed cast. filming in The brave and the BraveSo it's not likely to start filming until 2025, and I'm wildly optimistic.
However, if these films were released within 12 to 18 months of each other, they would surely leave moviegoers perplexed. Will people realize that they exist in separate universes? If they do, will viewers remember which version is in each one? A similar issue was raised when Pattinson was confirmed as a new version of Bruce Wayne/the Dark Knight, even though Ben Affleck was still playing the same character in the DCEU when that announcement was made in mid-2019. However , with Affleck's time as Batman ending, there was a clear distinction between the two properties. That won't be the case here, with Pattinson's Batman and the DCU's own Caped Crusader coexisting in different universes.
So Gunn and Reeves must overcome a very real dilemma. Once both movies are released, I think it will be easier to tell which is which. Until then, there's a murky gray area between the DCU and Reeves' Bat-Verse that general audiences might have a hard time adjusting to. My solution to all this? Give batman part 2 some breathing room releasing The brave and the Brave after 2028. Sure, that means we're in for a long wait for the DCU's Batman, but it's a price worth paying if it means fans aren't baffled by the simultaneous existence of two Batmen.
the batman is available to stream right now on Max (US), Netflix (UK) and Foxtel (Australia).
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