The Batman: Part II is finally in production, and news about the sequel to the 2022 superhero hit has been flying like a winged mammal. Writer-director Matt Reeves is slowly revealing the film’s cast via social media, and he’s just announced a notable name who has yet to be connected to the franchise. The Batman: Part II will be released on October 1, 2027.
Reeves‘ Twitter account has been welcoming new and returning cast members to the long-awaited superhero sequel since yesterday, and the latest newcomer is Atlanta and Dope Thief star Brian Tyree Henry. It’s the latest role in a superhero project for Henry: he played Arkham Asylum clerk Carl in 2019’s Joker, lent his voice to Miles Morales’ father Jeff in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequels, and played the immortal engineer Phastos in the MCU film Eternals. There’s no indication of what role he’ll be playing in The Batman: Part II so far.
What Do We Know About ‘The Batman: Part II’?
Robert Pattinson will return as the Dark Knight in the film, which will pick up after the deluge unleashed by the Riddler in the climax of the first installment. Also returning from the first film are Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, Batman’s staunchest ally on the Gotham City police department; Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne’s faithful butler; Jayme Lawson as newly elected Gotham City mayor Bella Reál; Colin Farrell as grotesque Gotham gangster the Penguin; and Gil Perez-Abraham as Officer Martinez. New additions to the cast include Sebastian Stan, who will reportedly be playing District Attorney Harvey Dent, a noble prosecutor who is doomed to become the disfigured Two-Face, and in unspecified roles, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Koch, and Charles Dance. There’s no word yet on whether the Riddler (Paul Dano), Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), or the Joker (Barry Keoghan), who all appeared in the first film, will return for the second. What we do know, from the one snowy image that Reeves posted to kick off production, is that part of the film will apparently be set during the winter.
Up next for Henry is the Sam Esmail cyberthriller Panic Carefully, starring Julia Roberts and Elizabeth Olsen. He’s also set to return as Jeff Morales in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third and final part of the animated trilogy. He will also lend his voice to Bass X Machina, an animated science fiction Western that will debut on Netflix this fall.
The Batman: Part II will be released on October 1, 2027.
via Collider