Announced during the Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon tonight, The Batman 2 is getting ready to take flight, and Robert Pattinson will be back as Batman/Bruce Wayne!
Additionally, Matt Reeves will return to write and direct the sequel.
“Matt Reeves, Rob Pattinson and the entire team will be taking audiences back to Gotham with The Batman 2,” WB’s Toby Emmerich said at CinemaCon, THR reports tonight.
The Batman is now playing on HBO Max after making $759 million in theaters worldwide, so it’s no big surprise that this new iteration of Batman is a top priority for WB & DC.
Additionally, a Penguin spinoff series is in the works for HBO Max, with Colin Farrell reprising the role. Another small screen The Batman spinoff project is also taking shape.
No plot details for The Batman 2 are available at this time, but a deleted scene from the first movie suggests we could be seeing more of Barry Keoghan‘s Joker down the road.
In this year’s The Batman…
“Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman (Robert Pattinson), striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. With only a few trusted allies — Alfred Pennyworth (Andy Serkis), Lt. James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) — amongst the city’s corrupt network of officials and high-profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens.
“When a killer targets Gotham’s elite with a series of sadistic machinations, a trail of cryptic clues sends the World’s Greatest Detective on an investigation into the underworld, where he encounters such characters as Selina Kyle/aka Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), Oswald Cobblepot/aka the Penguin (Colin Farrell), Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), and Edward Nashton/aka the Riddler (Paul Dano). As the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator’s plans becomes clear, Batman must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit, and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued Gotham City.”
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