It is done folks. It. Is. Done! 173 weeks after Matt Reeves' The Batman swooped into cinemas and knocked our bat-socks off with its grungy take on D
It is done folks. It. Is. Done! 173 weeks after Matt Reeves’ The Batman swooped into cinemas and knocked our bat-socks off with its grungy take on DC’s Caped Crusader, 1,157 days after we learned that Reeves and star Robert Pattinson would be back for a sequel, and less than 72 hours from DC Studios head honcho James Gunn’s oft-cited deadline for delivery, the script for The Batman Part II is complete. It’s done and dusted. It’s in the bat-bag. And if you don’t believe us (which honestly, after a long three year wait and two release date pushbacks, we wouldn’t blame you), then just feast your eyes on the man himself’s social media post confirming the momentous news. Bat signal up:
Ét voila! The Batman Part II, written by Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin, as we live and breathe. Now sure, we still have absolutely no idea what exactly The Batman Part II will be about, who will be in it beyond our man R-Battz, or why exactly it took Reeves and Tomlin so long to make like Bane and break The Batman‘s back, but after months of whispers and rumours, seeing Reeves himself put all the speculation surrounding his hotly anticipated superhero sequel to bed is incredibly gratifying. Not least because it gave the blockbuster filmmaker a chance to flex a little wordplay in his social announcement, dubbing himself and Tomlin ‘Partners in Crime (Fighters)’. It’s also, in an odd way, kind of perfect timing on Reeves’ part too when you think about it, as the imminent release of James Gunn’s Superman on 11 July is bound to stoke fan conversation about when DC’s Man of Steel and Dark Knight will cross paths, and in lieu of any news on Gunn’s own bat-plans, having Reeves’ Elseworlds joint more firmly plotted on the horizon will keep the bat-fans at bay.
While we don’t have any further details about The Batman Part II to share right now, the *SPOILER ALERT* massive flood Bats narrowly averted at the end of the first film could be teeing up a riff on the fêted Batman: No Man’s Land comic arc, which similarly follows the citizens of Gotham as they recover from a citywide disaster — and introduces The Batman vibe fitting villains like Clayface, Mister Zsasz, and Ventriloquist. It’s also an arc that prominently features the Joker, who you may recall showed up in Barry Keoghan form in a deleted scene from the first movie.
We’ll find out exactly what Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin have been cooking — and if it’ll prove worth the five-and-a-half-year wait — when The Batman Part II flies into cinemas on 1 October, 2027.
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