{"id":668086,"date":"2026-05-14T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:29:11","slug":"reeves-confirms-returning-the-batman-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668086\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves Confirms Returning &#8220;The Batman&#8221; Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reeves-confirms-returning-the-batman-cast.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reeves-confirms-returning-the-batman-cast.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"reeves-confirms-returning-the-batman-cast\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Matt Reeves is readying his \u201cThe Batman Part II\u201d to shoot imminently.  Ahead of that, he\u2019s started officially unveiling the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, in a series of postings on X, Reeves confirmed the core cast of returnees \u2013 Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne\/Batman, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, Colin Farrell as The Penguin and Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also confirmed two other returnees \u2013 Jayme Lawson will return as Mayor Bella Re\u00e1l, while Gil Perez-Abraham is back as Officer Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves also confirms more announcements tomorrow, those are expected to put the focus on the new cast members for the film like Sebastian Stan as Harvey Dent, Scarlett Johansson as Gilda Dent, and Charles Dance as Christopher Dent, among others.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected that both Paul Dano and Barry Keoghan will return as The Riddler and The Joker respectively, but that hasn\u2019t been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Batman: Part II\u201d is currently on track for an October 1st 2027 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures Filmmaker Matt Reeves is readying his \u201cThe Batman Part II\u201d to shoot imminently. Ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-668086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668086","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=668086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}