{"id":632219,"date":"2026-10-16T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632219\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:12:21","slug":"the-batman-part-ii-production-resumes-with-steven-soderbergh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632219\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Batman: Part II’ Production Resumes with Steven Soderbergh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Batman: Part II\u201d will soon resume production with Steven Soderbergh<\/a> stepping in to finish principal photography while director Matt Reeves continues to attend to a family matter, IndieWire has confirmed. <\/p>\n

Production on the Batman sequel at DC starring Robert Pattinson has been delayed for a little over a week as a result of Reeves\u2019 absence. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs Matt Reeves continues to attend to an ongoing family matter, Steven Soderbergh, as an admirer of Matt\u2019s work, approached Matt and will step in to help the writer-director complete the final weeks of principal photography on \u2018The Batman Part 2.\u2019 Matt and Steven will work closely together with the actors and crew to fulfill Matt\u2019s vision of the film<\/a>,\u201d the studio said in a statement to IndieWire. <\/p>\n

\"WEST<\/a> \"Danny<\/a> <\/p>\n

Soderbergh himself also added a statement: \u201cI thought Matt Reeves\u2019 work on \u2018The Batman\u2019 was stunning; it was intentional, specific, and rigorously coherent. The 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

\u201cThe Batman: Part II\u201d is dated for release on February 18, 2028<\/a>, and that date as of yet has not shifted amid the delay. There will be a six-year gap between the original \u201cThe Batman\u201d with Pattinson and the sequel after the original grossed $772 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

The new film sees Pattinson reprise his role as Bruce Wayne, alongside Colin Farrell returning as The Penguin<\/a> and Andy Serkis returning as Alfred, and newcomers Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Brian Tyree Henry, Jayme Lawson, Charles Dance, Gil Perez-Abraham, and Sebastian Koch. There\u2019s rumors that Stan is playing Harvey Dent, a.k.a. Two Face, but that\u2019s unclear. The only thing he had to say about the film to our Anne Thompson<\/a> is that the film is \u201cin a very deep, deep winter.\u201d <\/p>\n

Soderbergh is a fascinating name to work in a fill-in capacity, let alone on a tentpole superhero film. He obviously has history with Warner Bros. on the Ocean\u2019s movies and with HBO and HBO Max on films like \u201cNo Sudden Move.\u201d He is one of the quickest, most prolific directors working today<\/a>, but this would represent his biggest film in a while and his only studio film since 2023\u2019s \u201cMagic Mike\u2019s Last Dance.\u201d And though he\u2019s long been based in New York, he\u2019s now based in London where \u201cThe Batman: Part II\u201d is shooting. <\/p>\n

His last narrative film was this year\u2019s \u201cThe Christophers\u201d from Neon, and he also directed a documentary, \u201cJohn Lennon: The Last Interview,\u201d that premiered at Cannes but is currently without distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Batman: Part II\u201d will soon resume production with Steven Soderbergh stepping in to finish principal photography while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,593,409,111,139,69,12524,24591],"class_list":["post-632219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-steven-soderbergh","tag-the-batman-part-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632219","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=632219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}