With a brand new onscreen DCU taking form in Metropolis, Matt Reeves‘ Batman remains to be lurking round within the shadows of Gotham Metropolis.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn lately assured followers that Robert Pattinson‘s iteration of the Darkish Knight “remains to be there” as author/director Reeves nears completion on a brand new draft of the sequel to 2022’s The Batman.
“What Matt’s doing remains to be actually essential, regardless of all tales on the contrary,” Gunn advised Leisure Weekly. “We’re purported to see that script shortly, and I can’t wait.”
In the identical interview, Gunn teased {that a} new Marvel Girl is “being written proper now” following Gal Gadot’s tenure because the superhero within the DCEU.
Premiering July 11 in theaters, Gunn’s Superman will launch a brand new DCU separate from Reeves’ ‘Batman Epic Crime Saga’, which incorporates The Batman (2022) and final 12 months’s Max sequence spin-off The Penguin.
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After Gunn beforehand defended the delays on The Batman Half II, which is set to premiere on Oct. 1, 2027 following a year-long postponement, Reeves stated in January that the sequel will movie this 12 months.
“We’re doing one thing the place the story continues from, however I hope that folks can be stunned by,” he advised Deadline.
Though Pattinson confirmed plans to begin taking pictures by “finish of the 12 months,” the actor later joked, “I began out as younger Batman and I’m going to be f—ing outdated Batman by the sequel… I’m 38, I’m outdated.”
