Batman will be returning to the big screen in 2026 as Robert Pattinson suits-up once more for the sequel to Matt Reeves’ hit Gotham thriller.
The Batman Part 2 will follow on from the events of the first film which saw the Riddler take explosive revenge on the city, bringing forth a biblical-like flood.
Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Reeves detailed how the upcoming sequel will see the Dark Knight struggle in the wake of Riddler’s destruction.
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Reeves revealed cinema-goers can expect to see the beloved DC vigilante wrestling with his views on justice in The Batman Part 2 as he reflects on the rights and wrongs in society.
“There’s a lot of unrest and there’s a lot of clamouring because of the revelations of what we find out at the end of the [first] movie,” he teased. “There’s unrest in the streets to say, ‘Well, how could this be?’. The idea that this corruption extends as deep as it extends.
“In the first movie, Batman views things very simplistically, he sees things in black and white. What he can represent and how he can affect that.”
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“As we enter into the next movie, there’s a lot more grey,” Reeves continued. “There’s a lot more people at odds. There’s a lot more division in the city. It’s a lot more like our world is now, there’s a lot of turmoil because people are in their camps and they’re not communicating.
“How does Batman fit into that? Where do you fit? It’s not as clear as going, ‘Oh yeah, bad guy, I go after bad guys’.
“And when things are in grey, it makes it very hard to be Batman, so this is part of the challenge as we enter it.”
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Reeves went on to explain how the chaos brewing on the streets of Gotham in HBO’s The Penguin will also “build into the conflict” in the next film.
The director previously explained why Batman didn’t intervene in The Penguin, despite the show being set directly after the events of the first film.
“[Batman’s] out there trying to grapple with the aftermath of everything that happened, which to some degree he blames himself for,” he said.
The Penguin airs on Max in the US, and NOW and Sky Atlantic in the UK. The Batman is available to buy now on 4K Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray and DVD.
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