Today is An Incredibly Sad Day For Batman Fans

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It’s no secret that the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Batman has had its fair share of hiccups, with Warner Bros. pushing the release date of the movie back by an entire year, back in 2024. The film has also been notoriously plagued by delays in the script from co-writer and director Matt Reeves.

Somewhere, in another quantum universe, fans are watching The Batman: Part II. Warner Bros. originally set the release date for the sequel to 2022’s The Batman for Oct. 3, 2025, per ComicBook.com. Fans have quite a bit longer to wait for the sequel to the gritty superhero movie starring Robert Pattinson as the titular Batman/Bruce Wayne, as the original premiere date has been delayed not once, but twice.

The Batman: Part II was set for an Oct. 2, 2025, which was already three-and-a-half years after The Batman hit theaters in 2022. But, due to the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes, Warner Bros. pushed the movie back to Oct. 3, 2026. The film was then hit with another blow when, in late 2024, Part II was once again delayed and pushed to an Oct. 1, 2027, release date. The writers’ strike is also a big reason why Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin were not able to work on a script. Following the strike, the team has been tweaking the script to get it just right.

In June 2025, Batman fans received an update from Reeves via Instagram. The writer/director shared a photo of what appeared to be a fully fleshed out screenplay for The Batman: Part II. In the background of the photo, Reeves is seen standing with Tomlin, and the photo was captioned: "Partners in Crime (Fighters).”

The first The Batman Film Was a Smash Hit

It’s been a long road for The Batman: Part II. The movie was first announced in April 2022 after the success of The Batman, which earned $772.3 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo. The first film was also well-received critically and by audiences. It boasts an 85% “Certified Fresh” critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and an 87% rating from more than 10,000 fan reviews on the site. The Batman also starred, in addition to Pattinson, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/The Riddler.

When The Batman: Part II finally hits theaters in two years, a familiar face will be there in the form of Colin Farrell’s “Oz Cobb,” aka, The Penguin. Farrell recently confirmed that he will return to Gotham in the sequel. “I’ve got an even smaller role in this one,” Farrell said via DCU Prime TV on X. “But I’m okay with that…I’ve read the script from start to finish, and I can’t say much about it. But it’s deeper, scarier, the stakes are bigger. I’m really excited to see it,” he said. Farrell is coming off his starring role in HBO’s The Penguin, for which he won a Golden Globe Award.

The Batman: Part II is set to begin filming at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in London on Jan. 1, 2026. Pre-production on the film has already begun. The movie will hit theaters on Oct. 1, 2027. The first film is available to stream on HBO Max.