The Batman 2 Gets Release Date as DCU Reveals Its Larger Batman Plan - IGN

Matt Reeves' sequel to The Batman, present titled The Batman - Part II — officially has a merchandise date. The anticipated follow-up to the Robert Pattinson's noir-drenched crook arsenic the Caped Crusader volition beryllium retired October 3, 2025.

The announcement was portion of the uncover of Warner Bros. Discovery's broader program for the caller DC Universe and its assorted broadside projects, much than 1 of which features Batman. In summation to announcing the merchandise date, DCU architects James Gunn and Peter Safran besides confirmed that The Batman volition beryllium a trilogy.

"Matt is moving connected [The Batman - Part II], which helium thinks of arsenic a Batman transgression saga, which besides includes the Penguin TV series," Gunn explained. "And it is its ain happening and he's hard astatine enactment connected that. He came successful and pitched america immoderate amazing, truly chill worldly the different day. So our program is for that to continue."

"And Batman's not a stepchild. I mean, it's each nether DC," Safran added. "We are afloat invested successful the occurrence of the Batman, conscionable similar we are everything else."

Reeves had been reportedly funny successful turning The Batman into a trilogy since astatine slightest 2019, having antecedently discussed his ideas for a afloat Batman arc. Earlier this month, the movies were confirmed to beryllium separate from Gunn and Safran's caller DCU.

The Brave and the Bold

So what volition their ain mentation of Batman look like? According to Gunn and Safran, the DCU Batman volition beryllium based connected Grant Morrison's tally with the series, which featured Batman's lad Damian Wayne arsenic a deadly protége trained by the League of Assassins.

"So this is the instauration of the DCU's Batman. It is not Robert Pattinson. It is not Ben Affleck," Gunn said. "[T]his is simply a communicative of Damian Wayne, who is Batman's existent son, who we didn't cognize existed for the archetypal 8 to 10 years of his life. He was raised arsenic a small murderer and assassin. He's a small lad of a bitch. He's my favourite Robin. It's based connected the Grant Morrison comic publication run, which is 1 of my favourite Batman runs. And we are putting that each unneurotic close now."

"This is evidently a diagnostic film, and it's going to diagnostic different members of the extended Bat-Family," Safran continued. "Just due to the fact that we consciousness similar they've been near retired of the Batman stories successful the theatre for acold excessively long."

The Brave and the Bold is simply a comic publication bid with roots successful the mid-1950s, and has historically been a team-up publication featuring Batman. Grant Morrison's Batman and Son, meanwhile, debuted backmost successful 2006, and has been described arsenic 1 of the astir important stories successful Batman's caller history.

A broader roadmap for the DCU

It's each portion of a broader roadmap for the caller DCU, which volition diagnostic 5 caller films and 5 tv bid for a full of 10 projects. Titled Gods and Monsters, Safran said successful a prepared connection that it volition archer "cohesive stories that item love, compassion, and the innate goodness of the quality spirit." They see caller stories featuring Superman, Swamp Thing, and more.

As for The Batman, Reeves' task was 1 of DC's large originative agleam spots, earning highly affirmative reviews from fans and critics alike. Gunn, Safran, and Reeves volition question to clasp the momentum generated by past year's release, timing retired releases truthful they don't interfere with 1 another.

The process volition statesman with The Flash, which volition question to deed the reset fastener connected the DCU. Afterward, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom volition pb into Superman: Legacy, which is erstwhile the DCU volition genuinely statesman successful earnest.

The adjacent DC merchandise is Shazam: Fury of the Gods connected March 17, with The Flash pursuing connected June 16. You tin find tons much info connected everything announced during Gunn and Safran's property league right here.

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