The Batman: Part II (2027) — Robert Pattinson returns and the script is “extraordinary” as Matt Reeves takes BIG SWINGS! After The Batman grossed $772 million worldwide and HBO’s The Penguin won 24 Emmy nominations, Gotham’s Dark Knight is back October 1, 2027 for a sequel Pattinson calls “very, very different.” The script surprised even Batman himself — and filming starts in just a couple months!
In this breaking DC Studios news update, we reveal everything confirmed about The Batman: Part II — Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated sequel continuing the “Batman Epic Crime Saga” separate from James Gunn’s main DCU continuity. Robert Pattinson officially returns as Bruce Wayne/Batman for what he describes as an “extraordinary” and “special” film that’s “taking some big swings” creatively. Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan have reportedly joined the cast in undisclosed roles, while Colin Farrell returns as Oz Cobb/The Penguin, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner James Gordon, and Barry Keoghan rumored to reprise his role as The Joker from the first film’s chilling final scene.
We cover all the confirmed announcements: Warner Bros. Pictures’ official October 1, 2027 theatrical release date (the same weekend Joker opened to $96.2M in 2019), Matt Reeves returning to direct and co-write the screenplay with Mattson Tomlin after completing the script in June 2025, production scheduled to begin May 29, 2026 in London with filming at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, and the film being part of DC’s standalone “DC Elseworlds” label operating separately from the main DCU (James Gunn confirmed “What Matt’s doing is still really important” and can’t wait to see the script). The cast is reportedly fully assembled with one final major role left to fill.
Plus, we discuss Robert Pattinson’s shocking reaction to the script (“I was reading it, and I got like, ‘Oh wow, okay!'”), Colin Farrell calling it a “masterwork” and “contemporary genre masterwork” that’s “dense, really really intelligent, so deep and detailed,” widespread speculation that Two-Face/Harvey Dent will be a major villain (with reports suggesting his wife Gilda Dent could be the main antagonist possibly as a mashup of the Halloween Killer and Phantasm), how The Penguin HBO series bridged the five-year gap and sets up the sequel’s Gotham underworld, the multiple release date delays (originally October 2025, then October 2026, now October 2027), and whether Reeves will complete his planned Batman trilogy before James Gunn casts the DCU’s separate Batman for The Brave and the Bold.