‘The Batman Part 2’ finished script teased by Matt Reeves after months of fan hoopla

The one thing DC Comics fans are obsessed with is the status of The Batman Part II. Not the film, necessarily. Just the script. After numerous release date delays and a general uncertainty around when the highly anticipated sequel could start production — even from star Robert Pattinson himself — those involved, namely DC Studios co-head James Gunn, have been dogged for months for a definitive status update.

In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, conducted in late May and published just over a week ago, Gunn said he was expected to receive the script sometime in June. Reeves, it would seem, has delivered.

The filmmaker shared a blurry photo on his social media channels of the front page of the Batman Part II script, as he and his screenwriting partner, Mattson Tomlin, sit on a couch in the background. “Partners in Crime (Fighters),” the caption reads.

EW has learned that the script is, indeed, now officially finished. (Tomlin also later confirmed as much on Twitter/X.)

Warner Bros. pushed back the release of The Batman Part II, the sequel to 2022’s The Batman, multiple times, now all the way to 2027. Gunn and DC always maintained that they wouldn’t start filming plans on a project until the script was in a good place.

While promoting his spinoff series on HBO, The Penguin, Reeves told EW he was almost finished with the script. “We’ve given big parts of what we’ve written so far to DC and they know what we’re doing,” he said at the time.

Gunn defended Reeves and the extended time needed to write the script, as diehard fans hounded him on social media, namely Threads, for months. “People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs to write it,” the filmmaker told EW, pegged to an exclusive Superman cover story. “That’s just the way it is. He doesn’t owe you something because you like his movie. I mean, you like his movie because of Matt. So let Matt do things the way he does.”

He confirmed Reeves doesn’t pay attention to a lot of the noise on social media, but mentioned, “He’s got a lot of other things happening, so I don’t think he lets it affect him. He’s fine. But I am irritated by people. I mean, it’s just that thing people don’t need to be entitled about. It’s going to come out when he feels good about the screenplay. And Matt’s not going to give me the screenplay until he feels good about the screenplay.”

Pattinson himself will be pleased to know that Reeves now apparently feels good about the screenplay. In a March interview for Hero Magazine, the Bruce Wayne actor joked with his Mickey 17 costar Naomi Ackie, “I started out as young Batman and I’m going to be f—ing old Batman by the sequel.”

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Details on what the script entails remain under wraps. The first film saw Pattinson’s Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City. The Batman spawned Reeves’ own mini-cinematic Bat-verse of interconnected movies and shows, called The Batman Epic Crime Saga, which remains separate from what Gunn is planning for the main DC Universe slate of projects.

Colin Farrell reprised his role as Oz Cobb in HBO’s The Penguin, which ties into the events of The Batman Part II. “We are the bridge between the two films,” showrunner Lauren LeFranc told EW. “We’re going almost directly into the second film Matt has planned.”

The season finale cliffhanger, in particular, revealed the Bat Signal lighting up the darkened sky. “We’re kind of flicking you at the end to say the story’s not over,” Reeves said. “The idea that Oz and these characters could be on a collision course at some point with Batman, that’s of course out there. So we wanted to leave you with a sense of that, without overshadowing that this is really the completion of the story.”

The Penguin star, Cristin Milioti, is hoping to reprise her role as Sofia Falcone after a critically adored performance on the series, which signaled a clash between her character and Zoe Kravitz’s The Batman femme fatale, Selena Kyle/Catwoman. “I would love to get to revisit her, for sure,” Milioti said of that possibility. “I mean, are you kidding?!”