DCU Chief James Gunn Won't Have 2 Batman Movies Come Out in the Same Year, Tells Fans Not to Expect a Brave and the Bold Update Until After The Batman 2

DC Universe main James Gunn has suggested fans won’t get an update connected the Brave and the Bold Batman movie until aft The Batman 2 comes retired adjacent year.

The Batman 2, starring Robert Pattinson successful the rubric role, is acceptable to motorboat five-and-a-half years aft The Batman, connected October 1, 2027. Writer-director Matt Reeves has said helium acceptable retired to marque a trilogy of Batman films arsenic portion of his Batman Epic Crime Saga, and arsenic of 2024 that program was inactive on.

The Batman films beryllium successful a beingness abstracted to the ongoing DCU, and fixed Gunn has ruled retired Pattinson’s Batman crossing over, we’re acceptable for a caller histrion to play the Caped Crusader for the Brave and the Bold.

It’s a movie with a large woody of anticipation down it, but it seems a agelong mode away. Asked connected societal media erstwhile fans tin expect to spot a Brave and the Bold update, Gunn indicated that thing volition beryllium released until aft The Batman 2 is done and dusted.

“I'm babelike connected erstwhile there's an actionable publication acceptable truthful determination is nary mode of maine guessing this,” helium said. “Also, frankly, we're good into Batman 2, and I wouldn't privation to unreality the Batsphere until aft that.”

Given The Batman 2 comes retired October 2027, it looks similar we won't get an update connected The Brave and the Bold until aboriginal 2028 astatine the earliest.

Gunn past committed to ne'er releasing 2 Batman movies successful the aforesaid year. “I deliberation some Batman and WW [Wonder Woman] are incredibly important,” helium said successful effect to different fan. “But I'm besides not going to person 2 Batman movies travel retired successful the aforesaid year.”

Gunn finds himself having to navigate 2 takes connected Batman astatine the aforesaid time. If Reeves gets to marque his 3rd Batman film, we could spot The Brave and The Bold sandwiched betwixt a brace of Robert Pattinson Batman movies, perchance confusing the audience.

While promoting the rebooted DCU kickstarter Superman past year, Gunn admitted: "Batman's my biggest contented successful each of DC close now." As of February 2025, The Brave and the Bold was said to beryllium successful “very progressive development,” and the communicative was “coming unneurotic precise nicely.” But is The Flash manager Andy Muschietti inactive directing? At the time, Gunn and Safran were said to beryllium processing the script, and planned to amusement it to Muschietti "when we person it successful a spot wherever we deliberation it's acceptable to go... and spot if it's a acceptable for him.”

As for The Batman 2, successful an update past year, Reeves acknowledged however agelong it was taking to get the sequel successful a presumption to commencement filming. “It’s been a travel that is taking longer than I would’ve wanted for a batch of reasons, a batch of idiosyncratic reasons,” Reeves told The Hollywood Reporter. “But [the] astir important crushed is getting it to a spot wherever I conscionable felt similar it was the champion publication we could perchance write.”

Reeves besides spoke astir Pattinson’s effect to the publication — which, judge it oregon not, was mailed to him successful a privateness pouch implicit with coded introduction (that Pattinson astir couldn’t open, caput you) to support each of the breathtaking details wholly nether wraps.

“He’s Batman, and if helium doesn’t similar it, not good,” the Cloverfield manager said of Pattinson’s feelings connected the script. “I was ace excited. I thought that helium truly would [like it] due to the fact that the things that it does for his character, for Batman and for Bruce, person ne'er been done earlier successful this way. I had a feeling that helium would respond successful this way, but the information that helium did was incredibly encouraging.”

He added: “Obviously due to the fact that of what the archetypal movie was and what this movie is, which is truthful overmuch a detective story, the thought of trying to support the secrets of the movie is ace important due to the fact that it’s a mystery. It would beryllium an other level of heartbreak if that portion of it started getting out.”

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