{"id":168366,"date":"2025-12-04T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:59:07","slug":"scarlett-johansson-drops-out-of-2-movies-because-of-the-batman-2-casting-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168366\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson Drops Out of 2 Movies Because of The Batman 2 Casting – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scarlett Johansson<\/a>\u2019s casting in The Batman 2<\/a> means she will no longer be starring in two other movies.<\/p>\n

Johansson has been cast in a mystery role in Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman 2, also known as The Batman Part II<\/a>. Arriving in 2027, the DC Studios<\/a> and Warner Bros. Pictures<\/a> sequel to The Batman<\/a> will see Robert Pattinson reprise his role as Bruce Wayne. There\u2019s speculation that Johansson could be playing a villainous love interest to Bruce Wayne in the film, though this has yet to be officially confirmed.<\/p>\n

What movies won\u2019t Scarlett Johansson star in because of The Batman 2?<\/p>\n

Given her commitments to The Batman 2 and Mike Flanagan\u2019s new The Exorcist<\/a> movie, both of which will be filming in 2026, Johansson has had to drop out of two other projects due to her busy schedule.<\/p>\n

According to Jeff Sneider\u2019s The InSneider<\/a>, Johansson will no longer be playing Mother Gothel in the live-action Tangled<\/a> movie. It was reported in October 2025 that she was circling the role in the remake, which is now once again in the works after development on the project was paused earlier this year. The Greatest Showman and Better Man\u2019s Michael Gracey is directing the movie.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Johansson has dropped out of an indie movie called Featherwood. It was announced in 2024 that the actress would play a heroin addict who becomes an FBI informant in the true-crime thriller that was to be directed by Andrea Arnold. According to Sneider, Arnold left the project this past September, \u201cand the chance to work with Arnold was a big reason why Johansson signed on to that project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither the live-action Tangled remake nor Leatherwood has a release date at this time. Meanwhile, The Batman Part II, which is co-written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin, arrives in United States theaters on October 1, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson\u2019s casting in The Batman 2 means she will no longer be starring in two other movies.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4793,156,3130,409,111,139,69,12656,54834,5531,23549,109389,24591,101259,4798],"class_list":["post-168366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dc-studios","tag-entertainment","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-tangled","tag-the-batman","tag-the-batman-2","tag-the-batman-part-2","tag-the-batman-part-ii","tag-the-exorcist","tag-warner-bros-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}