Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin have completed their script for The Batman II over three years after the first film starring Robert Pattinson came out in theaters.
The pair shared a burred black and white photo of the script with a bat on the cover, under which the fuzzy title seems to say “The Batman: Part II.”
Reeves captioned the post, which is a collab share with cowriter Tomlin, “Partners in Crime (Fighters).” He also tweeted the photo and tagged Tomlin. The caption cleverly alludes to Robin, who did not appear in the first film.
The sequel film was first announced in April 2022 on the heels of the first filn’s March 4 theatrical release, which also starred Colin Farrell as Oz the Penguin, Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle, Jeffrey Wright as Lt. James Cordon, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Paul Dano as The Riddler, Andy Serkis as Alfred and more.
This news of the script’s completions comes just ahead of the arrival of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s Superman, which will herald in the new DC universe. Gunn responded to fans’ complaints online of the delay of the script, telling them to be patient, in different words.
“Listen, we’re supposed to get a script in June,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I hope that happens. We feel really good about it. Matt’s excited. I talk to Matt all the time. I’m totally excited about it. So we can’t wait to read the scripts, but we haven’t read it yet, if that’s your question.”
“People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs to write it,” Gunn continued. “That’s just the way it is. He doesn’t owe you something because you like his movie. I mean, you like his movie because of Matt. So let Matt do things the way he does.”
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The Batman: Part II will arrive in theaters Oct. 1, 2027. Reeves first film made $369.3M domestically and $772M worldwide at the box office.
The feature also led to HBO Max series, The Penguin, the third-most-watched HBO or Max debut season around the world following The House of the Dragon and The Last of Us.
See Reeves’ post below:
