Warners Delays The Batman Part II To 2026

Not Quite The Dark Knight Returns Yet

Over at the Hollywood Reporter, they have just confirmed that Matt Reeves’ The Batman Part II has been put back to 2026…

The Batman Part II is flying off to a new date. The film will now open Oct. 2, 2026. That’s back a full year from its previous date.

Batman 2 wasn’t the only notable change made to Warner Bros. release calendar on Tuesday: The Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed The Bride!, starring Christian Bale, will take Batman 2‘s old date of Oct. 3, 2025; Barry Levinson’s gangster pic Alto Nights is being delayed from Nov. 24, 2024 to March 21, 2025; and Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled, star-studded event pic has landed an Aug. 8, 2025, release date. All of the titles will be offered in Imax.

The sequel to Matt Reeves‘ The Batman was first announced at CinemaCon in April 2022. In August of that year, Mattson Tomlin boarded to co-write with Reeves, and in late January 2023, DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran gave the film a title and date of Oct. 3, 2025. DC insiders say the delay is related to last year’s strikes.

The Batman enjoyed the second best opening of the pandemic with $134 million domestically, on its way to a global haul of $770.3 million. It launched a new franchise, with Colin Farrell’s Penguin getting his own Max series and Reeves developing an Arkham Asylum-focused show that morphed out of an earlier idea for a series focused on the Gotham Police Department.

The sprawling cast also included Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as The Riddler and Andy Serkis as Alfred. The film also featured Barry Keoghan as a mysterious Arkham Asylum inmate who befriends Riddler, with the character set up as a version of The Joker.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-batman-ii-delayed-a-year-1235108760/