Production has halted on The Batman Part II a few months after filming start in London.
The Batman Part II has halted filming as Matt Reeves has stepped back for personal reasons.
Production for the highly anticipated sequel has been underway in London since June, but work on the movie has been paused to allow the director to deal with a “family matter”.
A representative said in a statement: “Production on The Batman Part II has been temporarily paused while Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter. “Matt has the full support of DC Studios and we look forward to continuing the journey soon.”
The spokesperson did not given any more details about the situation, while source added to Deadline that it’s too early to comment on whether the stoppage could impact the movie’s planned release date of February 18, 2028.
Reeves is writing and directing the follow up to his 2022 movie The Batman, which introduced Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader.
The Twilight Saga star will be back for the sequel, but he has played down the idea of his Batman entering the wider DC Universe on the big screen.
He told LADBible: “I think it would be kind of tough to have this version of Bruce outside of Matt’s world.
“It’s one of the only characters I guess because of the length of the shoots but also it’s such a specific kind of [style], the tone of it gets inside you.”
Pattinson felt “strange” for some time after filming The Batman because he was constantly “in the dark”.
He said: “I remember that happened to me the last time I did it, it took a while. You’re just in the dark, the whole time.
“Both mood-wise and light-wise, I can’t see anything for like months. It does affect you like you feel strange afterwards.”
The Odyssey actor recently teased the upcoming sequel is a “real left turn” from the previous movie.
The 40-year-old star told Collider: “It’s so ambitious. I mean, I sort of said the other day on something that the first one was a different take on a Batman movie, and this one is another.
“It’s a real left turn from the first one, but somehow it keeps elements of the kind of feel of it.
“But it just feels really ambitious, and I’m excited to see how it turns out.”
In July, it was revealed that Warner Bros. has pushed the sequel’s release to 18 February 2028, having previously scheduled it for October 2026 before moving it to October 2027.
Director Matt Reeves announced the latest release date alongside the first camera test footage of Robert reprising his role as Batman.
The sequel reunites the filmmaker with co-writer Mattson Tomlin and will feature a cast including Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Charles Dance, Brian Tyree Henry and Sebastian Koch, although plot details and their character roles remain under wraps.
When the film’s previous delay was announced, DC Studios co-head James Gunn defended the lengthy gap between instalments.
He wrote on Threads: “To be fair, 5-year gap or more is fairly common in sequels.
“7 years between Alien and Aliens. 14 years between Incredibles. 7 years between the first two Terminators. 13 years between Avatars. 36 years between Top Guns. And, of course, six years between Guardians Vol 2 and Vol 3.”
The Batman Part II filming halted as Matt Reeves deals with ‘family matter’
