‘The Batman Part II’ Adds a Slew of New Stars

The Batman Half II is including some heavy hitters to its forged.

As unveiled on social media by author and director Matt Reeves, the film will star excess of simply Robert Pattinson reprising his position because the younger Darkish Knight. (Possibly not so younger anymore; the primary film may have come out 5 years in the past by the point the sequel hits theaters.)

The most important new names are two Marvel stars: Scarlett Johansson, who used to play Black Widow, and Sebastian Stan, who nonetheless performs Bucky Barnes (AKA the Winter Soldier) and will probably be seen in Marvel’s upcoming Avengers sequel later this yr.

In a sequence of tweets, Reeves introduced their casting himself. Alongside a GIF of Sebastian Stan, for instance, he wrote “In a Gotham way of thinking … welcome.”

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For Johansson he wrote “Subsequent exit, Gotham … welcome.”

Reeves additionally posted GIFs of actors Sebastian Koch, Charles Dance, and Brian Tyree Henry (one other Marvel alum; he performs each Phastos of the Eternals and voices Miles Morales’ dad within the Spider-Verse animated motion pictures).

Though not confirmed by Reeves himself, the rumor going round on-line is that Stan will play Harvey Dent, the crusading Gotham Metropolis reporter who inevitably will get half his face scarred in a mob assault, goes insane, and turns into the Batman villain generally known as Two-Face. The character has beforehand been portrayed in motion pictures by Tommy Lee Jones (in Batman Perpetually) and Aaron Eckhart (in The Darkish Knight).

There’s not a lot data in the way in which of plot particulars for The Batman Half II, which continues the story of Pattinson’s Batman through the character’s early days as a Gotham Metropolis vigilante. Within the first movie, he battled Penguin (Colin Farrell) and the Riddler (Paul Dano).

The Batman Half II is presently scheduled to open in theaters on October 1, 2027.