Robert Pattinson Says The Batman 2 Is 'Very, Very Different,' Calls Script 'Extraordinary'

Robert Pattinson has provided an update connected The Batman 2, teasing its "extraordinary" publication and calling it “very, precise different.”

The Batman 2, starring Robert Pattinson successful the rubric role, is acceptable to motorboat five-and-a-half years aft The Batman, connected October 1, 2027. Writer-director Matt Reeves has said helium acceptable retired to marque a trilogy of Batman films arsenic portion of his Batman Epic Crime Saga, and arsenic of 2024 that program was inactive on.

In an update past year, Reeves acknowledged however agelong it was taking to get The Batman 2 successful a presumption to commencement filming. “It’s been a travel that is taking longer than I would’ve wanted for a batch of reasons, a batch of idiosyncratic reasons,” Reeves told The Hollywood Reporter. “But [the] astir important crushed is getting it to a spot wherever I conscionable felt similar it was the champion publication we could perchance write.”

Reeves besides spoke astir Pattinson’s effect to the publication — which was mailed to him successful a privateness pouch implicit with coded introduction (that Pattinson astir couldn’t open) to support each of the breathtaking details wholly nether wraps.

“He’s Batman, and if helium doesn’t similar it, not good,” the Cloverfield manager said of Pattinson’s feelings connected the script. “I was ace excited. I thought that helium truly would [like it] due to the fact that the things that it does for his character, for Batman and for Bruce, person ne'er been done earlier successful this way. I had a feeling that helium would respond successful this way, but the information that helium did was incredibly encouraging.”

He added: “Obviously due to the fact that of what the archetypal movie was and what this movie is, which is truthful overmuch a detective story, the thought of trying to support the secrets of the movie is ace important due to the fact that it’s a mystery. It would beryllium an other level of heartbreak if that portion of it started getting out.”

Now, Pattinson has provided a further update, confirming accumulation begins successful a mates of months. “The publication is extraordinary,” Pattinson told Deadline. “I deliberation it’s going to beryllium a really, really, truly peculiar movie. And very, precise antithetic to… adjacent from the past one. I was speechmaking it going like, ‘Oh wow! Okay!’ It’s going to beryllium absorbing seeing it travel out. It’s taking immoderate large swings.”

The Batman is simply a gritty, tense detective communicative that positions the Caped Crusader arsenic idiosyncratic who struggles to recognize his quest for vengeance. What mightiness we spot successful The Batman 2 that would warrant Pattinson saying it volition beryllium truthful different? This isn’t a Joker: Folie à Deux concern (Pattinson isn’t going to commencement singing… I hope). Perhaps helium tells a fewer jokes this clip around?

Meanwhile, DC Universe brag James Gunn has confirmed that fans won’t get an update connected the Brave and the Bold Batman movie until aft The Batman 2 comes retired adjacent year. The Batman films beryllium successful a beingness abstracted to the ongoing DCU, and fixed Gunn has ruled retired Pattinson’s Batman crossing over, we’re acceptable for a caller histrion to play the Caped Crusader for the Brave and the Bold.

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