The Batman Part II's release date has been pushed back to early 2028 and its latest delay is going to have a major impact on James Gunn's DC Universe

Date:
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:28:21 +0000

It's going to be another 18 months before we finally get to see The Batman
Part II .

The long in development comic book movie, whose release date had already been pushed back twice, is now not set to land in theaters until February 18, 2028. Anyone who had hoped to see The Batman Part II on its previously revised release date on October 1, 2027 , then, is going to be seriously
disappointed.

News of The Batman sequel's latest launch date came by
way of a new video that director Matt Reeves shared on his social media channels. The footage, which gives us our first look at the returning Robert Pattinson as the titular vigilante in Reeves' next Batman film, ends with the revelation of the adjusted release date.

By the time this DC comic book project lands on the big screen, then, almost six years will have passed since its predecessor make its own theatrical debut. That's a long time to make fans wait for the hotly-anticipated follow-up. It would be remiss of me not
to say that movie delays happen all of the time, so word of
The Batman Part II 's latest launch setback is, especially for a film that's taken a long time to get off the ground for myriad reasons, to be expected.

Nevertheless, it's going to have a huge impact on James Gunn and Peter Safran's nascent DC Universe ( DCU ), which is already reeling from its first major dud in Supergirl .

Indeed, Gunn has said time and again that the DCU's Batman and, by proxy,
his DCU Chapter One solo film in The Brave and the Bold won't see the light of day until The Batman Part II has premiered.

The reason? While Gunn says audiences are intelligent enough to understand that Reeves' Bat-Verse and the DCU are separate entities, he doesn't want two Batmans running amok in cinemas at the same time. Now that The Batman 2 won't come out until early 2028, though, we aren't likely to see the DCU's Dark Knight until 2029 at the very earliest. That doesn't mean Gunn, Safran, and company won't be working on The Brave and The Bold in the meantime. What it does mean, though, is that the wait for one of DC Comics' so-called Holy Trinity will not only drag on for ever longer, but DC Studios' co-heads will have to continue fielding questions about the timeline for the Caped Crusader's unveiling in their cinematic franchise. In that regard, can't say
I envy them.

Link to news story:

https://www.techradar.com/streaming/entertainment/the-batman-part-iis-release- date-has-been-pushed-back-to-early-2028-and-its-latest-delay-is-going-to-have- a-major-impact-on-james-gunns-dc-universe

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