Director and Writer Matt Reeves and Co-Writer Mattson Tomlin have finished their The Batman Part 2 script.
The highly anticipated update for the Robert Pattinson-led, long-in-development The Batman 2 arrived in the form of a new picture Reeves shared on X/Twitter. At first glance, the post looks like a simple black-and-white photo of the director sitting next to Tomlin. The DC duo is only part of the tease, though, with the real news being that it looks like there’s a script featuring a familiar bat-shaped logo placed on the table in front of them.
Partners in Crime (Fighters) @mattsontomlin pic.twitter.com/smItoTOdEQ
— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) June 27, 2025
Reeves and Tomlin stop short of confirming that The Batman 2 script is actually finished, but Variety was able to confirm that the script is indeed complete. Today’s update isn’t much of a surprise, as last week, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn told EW that he was expecting to see a script for the Pattinson-led sequel before the month was out.
“We feel really good about it,” Gunn said at the time. “Matt’s excited. I talk to Matt all the time. I’m totally excited about it. So we can’t wait to read the scripts, but we haven’t read it yet, if that’s your question.”
The Batman showed moviegoers a grittier take on Gotham City when it premiered in March 2022 and quickly became a favorite among comic book movie fans, new and old. It fared well with critics (we gave it a 10/10) and fans alike and performed well at the box office, too. Box Office Mojo reports that the 2022 Batman movie managed to glide away with a global total of $772,245,583.
After generating so much hype, it should come as no surprise to hear that fans have had a hard time waiting to see how it will continue. Even as Max spinoff show The Penguin helped with the wait by telling a side story centered on Colin Farrell’s Oswald Cobb, DC has had its hands full trying to find a suitable follow-up to that original story.
Gunn, meanwhile, has been happy to let Reeves and company take their time.
“People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs to write it,” he told EW. “That’s just the way it is. He doesn’t owe you something because you like his movie. I mean, you like his movie because of Matt. So let Matt do things the way he does.”
Following some lengthy delays, The Batman Part 2 is scheduled to drop into the theaters October 1, 2027. In other Caped Crusader news, we know that the upcoming Batman DCU film, The Brave and the Bold, won’t feature Pattinson’s take on Bruce Wayne and will instead feature a completely new version of the character. With two major Batman movies on the way and so many details yet to be fleshed out, Gunn has said that the character is his “biggest issue in all of DC right now.”
For more on the Gotham crime-fighter and The Batman Part 2, you can read about all of the other DC movies planned for the future. You can also check out our walkthrough for how you can watch every Batman movie in chronological order.
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