Robert Pattinson is delaying his return to Gotham.
The gritty comedian ebook sequel “The Batman Half II,” during which Pattinson will change into the Caped Crusader once more, has been postponed a yr, from Oct. 3, 2025 to its new date on Oct. 2, 2026.
Along with the transfer, Warner Bros., the studio behind the superhero tentpole, has shuffled round different titles on its launch calendar. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride,” starring Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley and Peter Sarsgaard, will take “The Batman” sequel’s outdated spot on Oct. 3, 2025. And “Alto Knights,” a mob drama starring Robert De Niro as two totally different mob bosses, has relocated from Nov. 15, 2024 to March 21, 2025.
The studio additionally added the most recent movie from director Paul Thomas Anderson to its schedule, slating it for Aug. 8, 2025. The film, labeled by Warner Bros. as “An Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Occasion Movie,” will likely be launched in Imax. Little is thought concerning the challenge, although it options the sprawling forged of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Corridor, Teyana Taylor and Alana Haim. Manufacturing on Anderson’s newest is underway in California, the place practically all the filmmaker’s motion pictures are set.
Matt Reeves returned to direct “The Batman Half II.” It’s unclear who, past Pattinson, will likely be again for the sequel. The primary movie, which took a grim (although PG-13) take a look at Bruce Wayne’s earlier days as “the world’s biggest detective,” starred Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth, Colin Farrell because the crime lord often known as Penguin and Jeffrey Wright as Gotham Metropolis’s police chief James Gordon. “The Batman” was a field workplace hit with $772 million globally.
