'The Batman Part II' Has Been Delayed A Year
'The Batman Part II' Has Been Delayed A Year
It turns out when the Dark Knight strikes, he gets delayed
The Batman Part II, the sequel to 2022’s The Batman starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader directed by Matt Reeves, will no longer be opening on October 3, 2025. Instead, attributed to the production delays resulting from the strike, it’s keeping the weekend for the following year, October 2, 2026.
Made an ur-example of the Elseworlds of the new DC Universe announced the January following its release, it is the equivalent weekend that the other ur-example, Joker: Folie á Deux, releases this year, on October 4. Both will coexist with the main DC Universe’s Batman, set to debut in or at least headline a film titled The Brave and the Bold. So far only a director, The Flash’s Andy Muschietti, has been found. It is within the main universe that Reeves’s Arkham Asylum-based series is set, having developed from a Gotham Police Department series set within the The Batman elseworld. As for the first film, it grossed over $772 million worldwide, with an impressive $134 million domestic opening and reportedly has done very well in its lifetime on Max and had non-exclusive stays on Prime Video and Netflix. While it’s now more than 4 and a half years between films, the world will still be explored with the miniseries The Penguin starring a reprising Colin Farrell in the title role premiering later this year.
Warner Bros. has dated and moved a few other films, including the film assuming The Batman Part II’s vacated 2025 spot. That is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! which stars Christian Bale, Jesse Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening and Penelope Cruz. Gyllenhaal also produces the film with several others. Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie has been set for August 8, 2025, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall, among others. Alto Knights, the Robert De Niro twin mobster movie directed by Barry Levinson has been pushed again from November 15, 2024 to March 21, 2025. It was originally scheduled to release this past February 2, but was moved to November when they pushed Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom to the Friday in December from the Wednesday it was previously positioned in. Each film has also been scheduled for IMAX access.
Source: Deadline