You had a sense when DC gave a Batman villain film a release date weeks before an actual Batman movie something was changing. And now it has. The Batman Part II, directed by Matt Reeves and staring Robert Pattinson, has been pushed back another year. It’s now scheduled for release on October 1, 2027. It was previously scheduled for release October 2, 2026.
The release date news, reported by Deadline, also came with a few non-DC tidbits. That October 2026 date will now feature an upcoming project from director Alejandro González Iñárritu and star Tom Cruise while 2025 sees a few genre films shift around. Another Pattinson film, Mickey 17, is moving up a few weeks to March 7 while the Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan vampire film Sinners is shifting back to April 18.
Rumors about the delay spread recently with chatter that DC Studios co-president James Gunn had yet to see a finished draft from Reeves followed by Gunn and team dating Clayface, written by Mike Flanagan, for release September 11 2026, weeks before Batman. When io9 asked Gunn about the timing, he seemed unworried about Clayface and Reeves’ Batman are in different universes. But, now, his movie has a Batmanless path ahead as audiences have to wait even longer for the return of Batman
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