Robert Pattinson has provided an update on The Batman 2, teasing its “extraordinary” script and calling it “very, very different.”
The Batman 2, starring Robert Pattinson in the title role, is set to launch five-and-a-half years after The Batman, on October 1, 2027. Writer-director Matt Reeves has said he set out to make a trilogy of Batman films as part of his Batman Epic Crime Saga, and as of 2024 that plan was still on.
In an update last year, Reeves acknowledged how long it was taking to get The Batman 2 in a position to start filming. “It’s been a journey that is taking longer than I would’ve wanted for a lot of reasons, a lot of personal reasons,” Reeves told The Hollywood Reporter. “But [the] most important reason is getting it to a place where I just felt like it was the best script we could possibly write.”
Reeves also spoke about Pattinson’s response to the script — which was mailed to him in a privacy pouch complete with coded entry (that Pattinson almost couldn’t open) to keep all of the exciting details completely under wraps.
“He’s Batman, and if he doesn’t like it, not good,” the Cloverfield director said of Pattinson’s feelings on the script. “I was super excited. I thought that he really would [like it] because the things that it does for his character, for Batman and for Bruce, have never been done before in this way. I had a feeling that he would respond in this way, but the fact that he did was incredibly encouraging.”
He added: “Obviously because of what the first movie was and what this movie is, which is so much a detective story, the idea of trying to protect the secrets of the movie is super important because it’s a mystery. It would be an extra level of heartbreak if that part of it started getting out.”
Now, Pattinson has provided a further update, confirming production begins in a couple of months. “The script is extraordinary,” Pattinson told Deadline. “I think it’s going to be a really, really, really special movie. And very, very different to… even from the last one. I was reading it going like, ‘Oh wow! Okay!’ It’s going to be interesting seeing it come out. It’s taking some big swings.”
The Batman is a gritty, tense detective story that positions the Caped Crusader as someone who struggles to understand his quest for vengeance. What might we see in The Batman 2 that would justify Pattinson saying it will be so different? This isn’t a Joker: Folie à Deux situation (Pattinson isn’t going to start singing… I hope). Perhaps he tells a few jokes this time around?
Meanwhile, DC Universe boss James Gunn has confirmed that fans won’t get an update on the Brave and the Bold Batman movie until after The Batman 2 comes out next year. The Batman films exist in a universe separate to the ongoing DCU, and given Gunn has ruled out Pattinson’s Batman crossing over, we’re set for a new actor to play the Caped Crusader for the Brave and the Bold.
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