Matt Reeves has shed light on The Batman II, offering promising updates about the film’s filming schedule, direction and more.
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The director spoke to SFX Magazine for its October issue and revealed new details about the anticipated Robert Pattinson-led sequel. He confirmed (as transcribed by Deadline) that filming for The Batman II is set to begin filming next year, and that he is “finishing up the script now”.
The spinoff TV series The Penguin starring Colin Farrell will tie into The Batman II, with Reeves confirming that it serves as an “entry point” to the second film. “It’s absolutely connected to where we leave things in the series. There are details that actually connect right into the way the next movie begins, and the way that Oz enters that world as we hand the baton back to Batman, and Batman is on another case.”
The director also added that The Batman II is “going to dig into the epic story about deeper corruption, and it goes into places that he couldn’t anticipate in the first one. The seeds of where this goes are all in the first movie, and it expands in a way that will show you aspects of the character you never got to see.”
“Batman is constantly battling these forces. But those forces can’t be entirely exorcised. So the next movie delves deeper into that,” he continued.
The Batman II was originally scheduled for an October 2025 release, but delays reportedly caused by last year’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have meant that the movie won’t be hitting screens until October 2 2026, pushing its release back a whole year.
The Batman scored a four-star review from NME, with Alex Flood writing: “If there’s one criticism to be made, it’s that The Batman is too long. No film five minutes shy of three hours can avoid dragging occasionally, and there’s a lot of leads to chase down and clues to unravel in this case. Fortunately, the writers know to break up each exposition session with enough action. It’s all shot beautifully too, against a shadowy urban backdrop lit by sudden bursts of neon red and blue.”