The Batman 2 Finally Begins Shooting Spring 2026 — 4 Years After Robert Pattinson's The Batman Hit Theaters

The Batman 2 yet begins shooting successful outpouring 2026, Warner Bros. has confirmed, portion committing to a 2027 release.

Matt Reeves’ self-contained DC beingness is called the ‘Batman Epic Crime Saga.’ This truthful acold includes 2022’s The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson arsenic the Caped Crusader, and HBO Max bid The Penguin, which sees Colin Farrell reprise his relation arsenic Oz Cobb.

In a fiscal report, Warner Bros. confirmed The Batman 2 is “preparing to statesman shooting adjacent spring,” and reiterated the 2027 merchandise window. The Batman II presently has an Oct 1, 2027 merchandise date.

The Penguin is acceptable 1 week aft The Batman and leads into the events of the upcoming The Batman 2, whose publication everyone and their canine (DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn included!) had been waiting connected with a large woody of anticipation. That publication is yet complete.

In the aforesaid fiscal report, Warner Bros. suggested The Penguin Season 2 is successful the works (“The 10-year imaginativeness for the DC beingness besides includes an breathtaking array of tv projects, including The Penguin…”). This comes contempt Colin Farrell precocious insisting Penguin Season 2 was not presently successful the works. But successful the aforesaid enactment helium pointed to The Batman 2 and adjacent namechecked the so-far unannounced Batman 3, truthful possibly helium was conscionable being coy.

Indeed, Reeves has said helium acceptable retired to marque a trilogy of Batman films, and arsenic of past twelvemonth that program was inactive on, but fixed however agelong it’s taken to get The Batman 2 going (if it does travel retired successful October 2027, it’ll get five-and-a-half years aft The Batman), the thought of The Batman 3 pursuing successful a timely manner feels tricky.

And past we person to instrumentality into information Gunn’s ain plans for the DC Universe’s Batman. While promoting the rebooted DCU kickstarter Superman earlier this year, Gunn admitted: "Batman's my biggest contented successful each of DC close now."

In February, Gunn and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran confirmed The Brave and the Bold volition present a caller Batman into the DCU, ruling retired Pattinson crossing the streams successful the process. At the time, Safran and Gunn said Pattinson would play Batman successful Reeves’ Batman Epic Crime Saga only.

So what does the imaginable of The Batman 2 successful 2027 and The Batman 3 coming retired aft mean for the timing of The Brave and the Bold? Gunn faces the perchance confusing concern of having 2 actors playing Batman successful movies crossed 2 antithetic DC universes.

As of February, The Brave and the Bold was said to beryllium successful “very progressive development,” and the communicative was “coming unneurotic precise nicely.” But is The Flash manager Andy Muschietti inactive directing? Gunn and Safran are processing the script, and volition amusement it to Muschietti "when we person it successful a spot wherever we deliberation it's acceptable to go... and spot if it's a acceptable for him," Safran said earlier this year. "I'm very, precise actively progressive successful that script," Gunn said, besides earlier this year.

Speaking much precocious connected Batman, Gunn said he’s not really penning The Brave and the Bold, but is moving with an unnamed writer to “get it right.”

“Batman’s my biggest contented successful each of DC close now, personally,” helium said. “And it’s not — I’m not penning Batman, but I americium moving with the writer of Batman and trying to get it right, due to the fact that he’s incredibly important to DC, arsenic is Wonder Woman.

“So extracurricular of the worldly that I’m doing successful the projects that are actively going, our 2 priorities are finishing our Wonder Woman and our Batman scripts.”

Gunn past discussed successful vague presumption the benignant of Batman he’s going for — or, possibly it would beryllium amended to accidental the benignant of Batman he's trying to avoid.

“Batman has to person a crushed for existing, right? So Batman can’t conscionable be, ‘Oh, we’re making a Batman movie due to the fact that Batman’s the biggest quality successful each of Warner Bros.,’ which helium is. But due to the fact that there’s a request for him successful the DCU and a request that he’s not precisely the aforesaid arsenic Matt’s Batman.

“But yet he’s not a campy Batman. I’m not funny successful that. I’m not funny successful a funny, campy Batman, really. So we’re dealing with that. I deliberation I person a mode in, by the way. I deliberation I truly cognize what it’s — I conscionable americium dealing with the writer to marque definite that we tin marque it a reality.”

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