Eager Robert Pattinson fans will have to wait even longer to see the actor reprise his role as the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves’s long-awaited The Batman sequel.
The Batman: Part 2 — the follow-up to Reeves’s acclaimed 2022 DC superhero noir, which starred Pattinson as the titular superhero opposite Zoë Kravitz as his lover Seline Kyle — was originally slated to release in theaters on October 3, 2025.
Its release ended up getting pushed back by a full year to October 2, 2026, due to the 2023 Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes. Instead, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, starring former Batman star Christian Bale, will open on the sequel’s initial October 2025 release date.
However, in a new update, Warner Bros. announced on Friday (December 27) that The Batman: Part 2 won’t be out in theaters until October 1, 2027.
The studio didn’t give a reason for the scheduling adjustment, though they revealed that the shift had left an opening for a new, untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise film to take the vacated October 2, 2026 opening Imax slot instead.
While details about director Iñárritu’s forthcoming movie remain under wraps, Warner Bros teased the film’s logline. Starring Cruise as “the most powerful man in the world,” the movie follows his character as he “embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”
Oscar-nominated German actor Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest), John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde and Riz Ahmed also feature in the star-studded movie.
Meanwhile, The Batman: Part 2 will welcome the return of Pattinson, Kravitz, Paul Dano as The Riddler and Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth.
It’s also expected to see an expanded role for Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, who was set up as a mysterious Arkham Asylum inmate who befriends The Riddler at the end of the first film and is expected to become some version of The Joker.
Warner Bros. has additionally switched around the premiere dates for Bong Joon-ho’s Pattinson-led sci-fi adventure Mickey 17 and Ryan Coogler’s horror movie Sinners with Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld.
Micky 17 will be out in theaters on March 7, 2025, and Sinners has been moved to open on April 18, 2025, to give Bong’s title a longer theatrical run at Imax, studio sources told Variety.