{"id":166678,"date":"2025-12-03T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/166678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:47:07","slug":"scarlett-johansson-joins-the-batman-part-ii-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/166678\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson Joins ‘The Batman Part II’ Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After spending almost a decade defending the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow, the bat signal may be calling Scarlett Johansson<\/a>, DC Studios\u2019 latest chapter in The Batman series. While it is unknown where things stand in the dealmaking process, sources tell Deadline that the Oscar-nominated Johansson is in final negotiations with the studio and director Matt Reeves for one of the new roles in The Batman Part II<\/a>. If a deal closes, she would join Robert Pattinson, who is set to reprise his role as the Caped Crusader in the upcoming sequel that Reeves is writing and directing.<\/p>\n

\n\tDC Studios had no comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson has been busy getting her affairs in order for her 2026 shooting schedule, most recently coming on to star in a new Exorcist film<\/a> for Blumhouse and director Mike Flanagan. Deadline was the first to break that news; at the time, insiders said her team at CAA was working out how she would be able to do both, and insiders now say that schedule has been settled.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to plot details and who Johansson might be playing, the film\u2019s secrets are harder to uncover then Bruce Wayne\u2019s Batcave. The Warner Bros-DC Studios pic is set to start production in the spring and will open in theaters on October 1, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tReeves\u2019\u00a0The Batman\u00a0was the first fire-breathing theatrical release for Warner Bros post-Covid after implementing a day-and-date release strategy on HBO Max. The movie starring Pattinson and Zo\u00eb Kravitz grossed $369.3 million at the domestic box office and $772M worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith her days in the MCU behind her, Johansson has been busy setting up multiple franchises that will keep her busy for the foreseeable future. Besides The Exorcist<\/a> and The Batman Part II, she recently helped relaunched the Jurassic World franchise with Jurassic World: Rebirth. That film, which hit theaters in July, went on to gross $868M worldwide and has a sequel in the works.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson recently\u00a0made her directorial debut<\/a>\u00a0with the Sony Pictures Classics drama\u00a0Eleanor the Great, which\u00a0world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/a>\u00a0Next up she can be seen in the James Gray pic\u00a0Paper Tiger opposite Miles Teller and Adam Driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides CAA, Johansson is also repped by Yorn Levine LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After spending almost a decade defending the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow, the bat signal may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,4347,17444,70862],"class_list":{"0":"post-166678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-scarlett-johansson","12":"tag-the-batman-part-ii","13":"tag-the-exorcist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}