{"id":929749,"date":"2026-10-16T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:18:09","slug":"the-batman-part-ii-steven-soderbergh-replacing-matt-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929749\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Batman Part II: Steven Soderbergh Replacing Matt Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Batman<\/a> Part II is preparing to return to filming under difficult and unusual circumstances.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatt Reeves<\/a>, the top tier filmmaker who has guided the franchise since being hired to direct<\/a> The Batman in 2017, will not return to the set as he continues to deal with a sensitive family matter.<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead, Steven Soderbergh will be brought in to help complete principal photography, working with Reeves from a distance for the final months of production as it heads toward its Feb. 18, 2028 release date. Soderbergh, the director behind Ocean\u2019s 11, Magic Mike and Traffic, approached Reeves with the offer of help.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJust to be clear, I am not leaving The Batman Part II. I am profoundly grateful to Steven for coming to my aid during this challenging time to help me finish principal photography. Thank you to all for your concern and well wishes,\u201d Reeves wrote<\/a> on X after the news broke Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tReeves remains a more-than-respected colleague by those at Warner Bros. and DC, and is a producer behind this weekend\u2019s Clayface and was a driving force on The Batman spinoff The Penguin for HBO. Indeed, the entire studio has coalesced around Reeves in this delicate moment. The plan is for Soderberg to work in London, while Reeves operates out of Los Angeles and then would be more hands-on during the movie\u2019s post-production in L.A. The film is said to be about two thirds done.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought Matt Reeves\u2019 work on The Batman was stunning; it was intentional, specific, and rigorously coherent,\u201d Soderbergh said in a statement. \u201cThe goal here is to work with Matt and his team to generate footage that will integrate seamlessly with what\u2019s already been shot so Matt can properly finish his film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time DC Studios, or parent Warner Bros., has seen an unexpected director change in one of their movies. Nine years ago, filmmaker Zack Snyder<\/a>, facing a personal family tragedy and the loss of confidence from the studio, was replaced by Joss Whedon during the making of 2017\u2019s Justice League.<\/p>\n

\n\tDC character Superman faced his own director tumult when Richard Donner was fired from 1980\u2019s Superman II after shooting part of the movie while making the first Superman. He was replaced by Richard Lester.<\/p>\n

\n\tRobert Pattinson stars in The Batman Part II as Bruce Wayne\/Batman, with new additions to the franchise including Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Batman Part II is preparing to return to filming under difficult and unusual circumstances. Matt Reeves, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,8861,134,67001,344,64876],"class_list":["post-929749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-batman","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-reeves","tag-movies","tag-zack-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}