{"id":477337,"date":"2026-02-15T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:45:08","slug":"the-batman-2s-working-title-revealed-writer-mattson-tomlin-says-sequel-feels-new-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477337\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BATMAN 2&#8217;s Working Title Revealed; Writer Mattson Tomlin Says Sequel &#8220;Feels New And Dangerous&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Batman Part II is quickly taking shape and is currently scheduled to begin filming in the UK this April. The sequel has been a long time coming, as The Batman was released in 2022. That&#8217;s a whopping 5+ year gap between sequels.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodnorthbuzz.com\/production-list-uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood North Buzz<\/a>, we now know that filmmaker Matt Reeves&#8217; DC return will shoot under the working title, &#8220;Vengeance 2.&#8221; And yes, The Batman&#8217;s working title was, as you&#8217;ve likely guessed, &#8220;Vengeance.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, around the same time this news came out, The Batman Part II writer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mattsontomlin\/with_replies\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mattson Tomlin<\/a> responded to a fan by writing, &#8220;We worked exceptionally hard to tell a story worthy of the character. Something that feels new and dangerous. The bar couldn&#8217;t be higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward to people seeing it and being able to talk about it at length,&#8221; Tomlin, who worked on the first movie but didn&#8217;t receive an official credit, added.\u00a0&#8220;Can&#8217;t begin to describe what this film means to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, he added, &#8220;We did our actual, literal, pushed beyond the limit best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to ask for more than that.\u00a0The Batman ended by setting the stage for what sounded like a team-up with The Joker and The Riddler. However,\u00a0many fans expressed disappointment that Reeves looked set to focus on two villains who have received plenty\u00a0of screentime over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Having the Clown Prince of Crime take\u00a0centre stage in\u00a0The Batman: Part II\u00a0also feels very reminiscent of\u00a0The Dark Knight\u00a0in 2008. It no longer looks like that&#8217;s the plan, but we are likely getting Two-Face, seeing as he, his father, and wife have all been cast in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Two-Face&#8217;s screentime in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s Batman Begins sequel was relatively minor. If Gilda Dent\u2014the &#8220;Holiday Killer&#8221; in the comics\u2014is also taking centre stage, there could be some big twists in store (Hush, Jeremiah Arkham, and Phantasm are all rumoured or theorised to appear).<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Matt Reeves from a script by him and Mattson Tomlin,\u00a0The Batman: Part II\u00a0stars Robert Pattinson (The Batman), Scarlett Johansson (Jurassic World Rebirth), Sebastian Stan (Avengers: Doomsday), Colin Farrell (The Penguin), Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings), and Jeffrey Wright (What If&#8230;?).<\/p>\n<p>The Batman Part II\u00a0is set to be released in theaters on October 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We worked exceptionally hard to tell a story worthy of the character. Something that feels new and dangerous. The bar couldn&#8217;t be higher. Looking forward to people seeing it and being able to talk about it at length. Can&#8217;t begin to describe what this film means to me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jL6ZhjzP6G\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/jL6ZhjzP6G<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAHhdJXyqp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LAHhdJXyqp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 mattson tomlin (@mattsontomlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattsontomlin\/status\/2023099930621939732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2026<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Batman Part II is quickly taking shape and is currently scheduled to begin filming in the UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,193543,337,2017,2020],"class_list":{"0":"post-477337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-mattson-tomlin","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-batman-2","14":"tag-the-batman-part-ii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}