Guess who’s bat, bat again. Matt Reeves is back, tell a friend. The long-awaited script for The Batman Part II has seemingly, finally, been completed in what must be the first-ever screenplay writing saga to involve the words “get off his nuts“. Reeves took to social media to reveal a completed script for the sequel to 2022’s The Batman, which is set to bring back Robert Pattinson as The Dark Knight himself, and ends an odyssey of conjecture, rumors, gossip, and whatever else you can imagine. It also confirmed what James Gunn, head of DC Studios, said just over a week ago to Rolling Stone when he said Reeves would finish the script when he was ready.
“God, people are mean,” Gunn said to Rolling Stone, clearly frustrated by the relentless tidal wave of rumors. “Let him do his thing, man.”
“The Batman Part II is not canceled. That’s the other thing I hear all the time — that Batman Part II is canceled. It’s not canceled. We don’t have a script. Matt’s slow. Let him take his time. Let him do what he’s doing.”
Was ‘The Batman’ a Success?
The Batman hit theaters in 2022, raking in over $770 million worldwide on a $185 million budget and earning both critical and audience acclaim. The film scored 85% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and an 87% audience score on the Popcornmeter, and it’s since become a consistent hit on Max during its many streaming runs. But with no official production start date in sight for The Batman Part II, questions had been piling up — and Gunn, now co-head of DC Studios, had to field many of them. However, he was steadfast in his support for giving Reeves the time and space to get it right.
“What Matt’s doing is still really important, despite all stories to the contrary,” Gunn recently told Entertainment Weekly. “We’re supposed to see that script shortly, and I can’t wait.” While The Batman Part II isn’t part of Gunn’s mainline DC Universe slate, it remains a key piece of the DC multiverse under the studio’s Elseworlds label, meaning it exists outside the continuity of projects like Superman (opening on July 11) and Supergirl.
via Collider