It’s carried out people. It. Is. Completed! 173 weeks after Matt Reeves’ The Batman swooped into cinemas and knocked our bat-socks off with its grungy tackle DC’s Caped Crusader, 1,157 days after we realized that Reeves and star Robert Pattinson could be again for a sequel, and fewer than 72 hours from DC Studios head honcho James Gunn’s oft-cited deadline for supply, the script for The Batman Half II is full. It is carried out and dusted. It is within the bat-bag. And should you do not imagine us (which actually, after a protracted three yr wait and two launch date pushbacks, we would not blame you), then simply feast your eyes on the person himself’s social media submit confirming the momentous information. Bat sign up:
Ét voila! The Batman Half II, written by Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin, as we reside and breathe. Now certain, we nonetheless have completely no concept what precisely The Batman Half II will likely be about, who will likely be in it past our man R-Battz, or why precisely it took Reeves and Tomlin so lengthy to make like Bane and break The Batman‘s again, however after months of whispers and rumours, seeing Reeves himself put all of the hypothesis surrounding his hotly anticipated superhero sequel to mattress is extremely gratifying. Not least as a result of it gave the blockbuster filmmaker an opportunity to flex just a little wordplay in his social announcement, dubbing himself and Tomlin ‘Companions in Crime (Fighters)’. It is also, in an odd means, type of excellent timing on Reeves’ half too when you consider it, as the approaching launch of James Gunn’s Superman on 11 July is certain to stoke fan dialog about when DC’s Man of Metal and Darkish Knight will cross paths, and in lieu of any information on Gunn’s personal bat-plans, having Reeves’ Elseworlds joint extra firmly plotted on the horizon will preserve the bat-fans at bay.
Whereas we have no additional particulars about The Batman Half II to share proper now, the *SPOILER ALERT* huge flood Bats narrowly averted on the finish of the primary movie might be teeing up a riff on the fêted Batman: No Man’s Land comedian arc, which equally follows the residents of Gotham as they get well from a citywide catastrophe — and introduces The Batman vibe becoming villains like Clayface, Mister Zsasz, and Ventriloquist. It is also an arc that prominently options the Joker, who you could recall confirmed up in Barry Keoghan kind in a deleted scene from the primary film.
We’ll discover out precisely what Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin have been cooking — and if it’s going to show definitely worth the five-and-a-half-year wait — when The Batman Half II flies into cinemas on 1 October, 2027.
