IndieWire has confirmed that production on “The Batman: Part II” will soon resume with Steven Soderbergh finishing principal photography while director Matt Reeves remains preoccupied with a family matter.
Production on DC’s Batman sequel starring Robert Pattinson has been delayed by more than a week as a result of Reeves’ absence.
“As Matt Reeves is attending to an ongoing family matter, Steven Soderbergh contacted Matt as a fan of Matt’s work and will step in to help the writer-director complete the final weeks of principal photography on ‘The Batman Part 2.’ Matt and Steven will work closely with the actors and crew to complete Matt’s vision of the film,” the studio said in a statement to IndieWire.
Soderbergh himself also gave a statement: “I thought Matt Reeves’ work on ‘The Batman’ was amazing; it was deliberate, specific, and strictly consistent. The goal here is to work with Matt and his team to create footage that integrates seamlessly with what’s already been shot so that Matt can properly complete his film.”
“The Batman: Part II” is scheduled to be released on February 18, 2028, and there has been no change to that date yet due to the delay. There will be a six-year gap between the original “The Batman” with Pattinson and the sequel after it grossed $772 million worldwide.
The new film sees Pattinson reprising his role as Bruce Wayne, with Colin Farrell returning as The Penguin and Andy Serkis returning as Alfred, and newcomers Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Brian Tyree Henry, Jaime Lawson, Charles Dance, Gil Pérez-Abrahams and Sebastian Koch. There are rumors that Stan is playing Harvey Dent aka Two Face, but it’s unclear. All she had to say to our Anne Thompson about the film was that the film “takes place in a very deep, deep winter.”
Soderbergh is a fascinating name to work with in a fill-in capacity, let alone a tentpole superhero film. Obviously he has a history with Warner Bros. on Ocean’s movies and with HBO and HBO Max on movies like “No Sudden Move.” He’s one of the sharpest, most prolific directors working today, but this will be his biggest film in some time and his only studio film since 2023’s “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” And although he’s lived in New York for a long time, he’s now in London shooting “The Batman: Part II.”
His last narrative film was this year’s Neon’s “The Christophers,” and he also directed a documentary, “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” which premiered at Cannes but is currently out of distribution.