“The Batman” sequel delayed again, now set for 2027 release

Give the Bat Signal a rest because the wait for the next Batman movie just got a little longer. Coming off this year's The Penguin series, DC movie fans are likely even more excited than they were previously for the next movie in The Batman saga. Unfortunately, they'll have to wait another year longer to see Robert Pattinson in the Batsuit again.

Having previously been pushed back from 2025 to 2026, The Batman sequel has been delayed again and is now looking at a 2027 release date, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed. It still does not have an official title from Warner Bros.

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That will be five years after The Batman first hit theaters in 2022. Like the previous film, it is still set to be directed by Matt Reeves and star Pattinson as the Dark Knight. Colin Farrell will also likely be reprising his role as Oz Cobb/The Penguin, with The Penguin finale directly setting up a conflict between the two characters down the road.

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Responding to the news on Threads, James Gunn, co-head of DC Studios alongside Peter Safran, wrote, "The only reason for the delay is there isn’t a full script (those of you who follow me here probably know that already). Matt is committed to making the best film he possibly can, and no one can accurately guess exactly how long a script will take to write. Once there is a finished script, there is around two years for pre-production, shooting and post-production on big films."

The Batman was released before Gunn and Safran took charge of the studio, and the relationship between their new interconnected universe and these Reeves projects remains a little unclear. Gunn has previously said that The Batman and its sequels/spinoffs are part of the "Elseworlds" brand and, therefore, not part of his new continuity. The Flash director Andy Muschietti has even been hired to make a new Batman movie that will be part of Gunn's universe, though the filmmaker hinted that the project has hit some road bumps in a recent interview.

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But will audiences really be able to comprehend two different movie Batmans existing at once? This 2027 delay will allow time to see how fans and critics respond to next year's Superman, the first flagship movie from Gunn's project. If that movie is successful, maybe Gunn and Reeves will try harder to make Pattinson's Dark Knight fit in alongside David Corenswet's Man of Steel. If not, perhaps Reeves and Pattinson will continue to blaze their own path independent of larger franchise concerns.

The Batman sequel isn't WB's only scheduling change-up, either. Bong Joon Ho's upcoming film Mickey-17, which also stars Pattinson, has been moved up from April 18, 2025, to a new release date of March 7, which might come as a surprise to movie audiences seeing the Mickey-17 trailer ahead of this year's Christmas releases still sporting the April date. The sci-fi film is switching places with Michael B. Jordan's Sinners, which will vacate its original date of March 7 in favor of April 18. Additionally, an untitled project from director Alejandro Iñárritu and Tom Cruise is slated for October 2, 2026.

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