Robert Pattinson's Return in The Batman: Part 2 Delayed Again, Now Arriving 2028

The Batman: Part 2 has suffered yet different delay, leaving Robert Pattinson's long-awaited instrumentality arsenic the Dark Knight present acceptable to motorboat successful 2028.

Having antecedently been owed to get successful theaters successful October 2027, The Batman: Part 2 volition present interaction down connected February 18, 2028. This latest alteration follows a drawstring of erstwhile delays to Matt Reeves' Batman sequel, which had primitively been acceptable to get backmost successful 2025.

According to Deadline, The Batman: Part 2's latest holdup tin beryllium blamed connected a cascade of changing merchandise dates implicit astatine Warner Bros., arsenic the company's impending merchantability to Paramount takes longer than archetypal anticipated. Paramount's $110.9 cardinal acquisition of the institution had been acceptable to beryllium finalized this fall, though is inactive to beryllium approved by regulators successful a drawstring of countries including the UK and Japan, arsenic good arsenic the European Union.

Today does astatine slightest bring a snippet of caller footage from manager Matt Reeves: a 35-second clip dubbed arsenic a camera test, showing Battinson dilatory turning to the camera portion wearing the iconic cowl.

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Batman's aged October 2027 day is present being filled by The Great Beyond, Warner Bros.' caller sci-fi movie from J.J. Abrams that stars Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega. Meanwhile, its caller February 2028 spot means it'll get during the four-day Presidents Day vacation weekend, which antecedently hosted Marvel tentpoles specified arsenic Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania, and Captain America: Brave New World. (Well... astatine slightest Black Panther was good.)

Marvel presently has thing announced for a akin merchandise window, with its existent tally of releases lone dated up to December 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars.

While today's day alteration volition mean Reeves has longer to enactment connected The Batman: Part 2 successful post-production, it is yet different holdup to a task that galore DC fans consciousness is already arriving excessively agelong aft Pattinson's Dark Knight debut. By the clip it launches successful 2028, astir six years volition person passed since The Batman launched backmost successful March 2022.

Since that time, Reeves' sequel has been postponed aggregate times, firstly owed to Hollywood strikes, and past aboriginal owed to the magnitude of clip Reeves took to meticulously implicit its script. The information that Pattinson's Batman is inactive waiting successful the wings has proven problematic to James Gunn's DCU, too, which is yet to present its ain incarnation of Batman — though plans to truthful are already successful motion, with enactment connected a publication for The Brave and the Bold already underway.

The Batman: Part 2 filming officially got underway past month, with Pattinson joined erstwhile again by Jeffrey Wright arsenic Jim Gordon and Andy Serkis arsenic Alfred Pennyworth. Sebastian Stan is rumored to beryllium playing Harvey Dent, with his chap MCU alum Scarlett Johansson rumored to beryllium playing Gilda Dent, portion Charles Dance is expected to beryllium playing Christopher Dent. Colin Farrell is besides back, though his Penguin quality volition lone amusement up for 2 scenes.

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