{"id":145401,"date":"2025-09-18T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145401\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:04:07","slug":"the-batman-2-director-teases-new-villain-who-hasnt-really-been-done-in-a-movie-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145401\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Batman 2\u2019 director teases new villain who \u201chasn\u2019t really been done in a movie before\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sequel to The Batman<\/a> is set to feature a new villain who \u201chasn\u2019t really been done in a movie before\u201d.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: \u2018The Batman\u2019 review: down in the dumps with Robert Pattinson\u2019s dark knight<\/a><\/p>\n

Director Matt Reeves teased that he is veering away from the franchise\u2019s conventional baddies in a red carpet interview with Josh Horowitz.<\/p>\n

He also said the sequel will focus more on the character of Bruce Wayne since \u201cthe first is so focused on Batman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reeves pointed out that in previous films, the origin story is often the meat of Wayne\u2019s background, but with The Batman 2, fans will see the man behind the mask in new ways.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He added: \u201c[In] a lot of the other films, which I love, once you get past the origin tale, which we didn\u2019t quite do, but we did something that referred to his origins, then you start telling the Rogues Gallery story and that character\u2019s sort of arch.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I never wanted to lose [Robert Pattinson<\/a>] at the centre of these stories, and so that is really what we set our aim on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sequel is in pre-production now, with the script having been completed by Matt Reeves and Matson Tomlin. Production is expected to begin in the spring of 2026, with a release date set for October 1, 2027.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, James Gunn<\/a> recently shot down rumours that Robin will appear in The Batman 2, telling fans to \u201cstop believing this nonsense\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gunn previously defended the \u201cslow\u201d progress of the sequel<\/a>, arguing that fans \u201cdon\u2019t need to be entitled about it\u201d.<\/p>\n

The first film, which along with Pattinson also starred Paul Dano and Colin Farrell<\/a>, was a box office and critical success in 2022. In a four-star review<\/a>, NME wrote: \u201cThere\u2019s no tired retreading of Bruce Wayne\u2019s origin story in\u00a0The Batman. Instead, it finds him post-induction \u2013 beaten-down, lonely and isolated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Batman and its sequel exist on a separate timeline from the new DC Universe<\/a> that launched this summer with Gunn\u2019s Superman<\/a>, starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan.<\/p>\n

However, Gunn recently discussed the possibility of Corenswet\u2019s Superman and Pattinson\u2019s Batman coming together in a future film<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked about it before,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not what\u2019s happening right now. Everything is in flux, so we\u2019ll figure out what we\u2019re doing next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sequel to The Batman is set to feature a new villain who \u201chasn\u2019t really been done in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-145401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}