{"id":247135,"date":"2025-12-23T06:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247135\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:23:21","slug":"james-gunn-debunks-the-batman-2-rumor-gives-casting-update-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247135\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Debunks The Batman 2 Rumor, Gives Casting Update – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Gunn has taken to social media to debunk yet another rumor, this time surrounding The Batman 2<\/strong><\/a> and its potential cast. <\/p>\n

What The Batman 2 rumor has James Gunn debunked? <\/p>\n

In a recent post on Threads, Gunn was asked about a rumor that suggested that Gunn stopped Matt Reeves from introducing a \u201crealistic version\u201d of the iconic Batman villain Clayface. According to the question, The Batman 2\u2019s script was rumored to be delayed due to this. <\/p>\n

Gunn laughed off the suggestion<\/a>, questioning where something like that might even come from. \u201cWhat? [laughing emoji] Where does this stuff come from? No it\u2019s the same exact script it has been from the beginning,\u201d said Gunn.<\/p>\n

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Gunn also explained why there haven\u2019t been any The Batman 2 casting updates. \u201cBatman Part II is a DC Studios film and Peter and I are producers. But generally we don\u2019t have a ton of announcements about any movie that isn\u2019t even in production yet. Things like the Lars as Brainiac announcement were because we knew it was going to get out there,\u201d explained Gunn.<\/p>\n

The development of The Batman Part II has been a long one. The original film was released three years ago in 2022 and was a massive hit. Starring Pattinson as the titular hero, the film made over $770 million at the box office.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0a\u00a0recent report<\/a>, The Batman 2 will begin production at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in London, United Kingdom, on January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

Pattinson will reprise his role as Batman in the movie, while the rest of the cast remains mostly unknown. Scarlett Johansson was recently reported to be involved in the film as well as Harvey Dent\u2019s wife. Other cast members from the original film, including Colin Farrell\u2019s Oz Cobb\/The Penguin,\u00a0Andy Serkis\u00a0as Alfred, and\u00a0Jeffrey Wright\u00a0as Commissioner Gordon, are likely to return for the sequel.<\/p>\n

Co-written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin, The Batman 2 is expected to see Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell reprise their respective roles as Jim Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, and the Penguin. Zoe Kravitz, meanwhile, is not expected to return as Catwoman\/Selina Kyle. Production on the film begins this coming spring.<\/p>\n

The Batman 2 will be released in the United States on October 1, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn has taken to social media to debunk yet another rumor, this time surrounding The Batman 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[1980,1981,18,117,19,17,927,11750,1892,327,45526,25131,43253],"class_list":{"0":"post-247135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dc","9":"tag-dc-studios","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-james-gunn","15":"tag-matt-reeves","16":"tag-movie-news","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-the-batman-2","19":"tag-warner-bros","20":"tag-warner-bros-pictures"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115767450522005172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}