James Gunn Wants You to Chill About The Batman Part II’s Delay

On Friday, WB revealed it was shuffling astir immoderate of its movies, chiefly The Batman’s sequel. Matt Reeves’ sequel was primitively meant to deed connected October 2, 2026 is present arriving October 1, 2027. And fans are taking it…not well.

Since quality of The Batman Part II’s delay, societal media’s been filled with jokes and concerns astir what the heck is going on. Why’s it taking 5 years to bash a movie, is the entire TBECS enterprise washed—folks conscionable privation immoderate answers. On Threads, James Gunn explained the film’s publication hadn’t been completed, and that director/co-writer Matt Reeves was “committed to making the champion movie helium perchance can.” He further argued it’s “fairly common” for a franchise to person 5 oregon much years betwixt installments, and cited respective arsenic proof: Incredibles (14 years), the archetypal 2 Alien films (7 years), Avatar (13 years), and adjacent his ain Guardians of the Galaxy (6 years, albeit not by choice).

It didn’t instrumentality agelong for commenters to hone successful connected that and reason there’ve been other franchises with little clip betwixt installments: your Marvel movies, your Star Wars (at least, originally), and truthful on. Still, Gunn’s wide constituent is basically, “yeah, there’s a delay, conscionable relax.” It’s easier asked than done, particularly fixed immoderate further context: Reeves’ archetypal Batman was primitively meant to deed successful June 2021, and got pushed backmost doubly owed to COVID. This quality besides comes not agelong aft Sony announced the directors for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, which would’ve been out this year, and is coming in…TBD. What’s more, Andy Muschietti, manager of the different large Batman movie, the previously-announced Brave & the Bold, precocious indicated that was enactment connected the backburner for undisclosed reasons. For fans acceptable to gobble up immoderate accusation connected these movies, not knowing thing astir Spider-Verse or either Batflick—and not knowing when they’ll know—pisses them off.

Unfortunately for them, they’ll conscionable person to deal. The Batman Part II‘s not the lone superhero movie to get delayed, and respective blockbusters person utilized that agelong hold betwixt sequels to their advantage. (Case successful point: the mode the net lit up for the trailer to the first Superman movie successful implicit a decade.) Corny arsenic it is to accidental “let Reeves cook,” that’s truly each we tin do. There’ll beryllium different movies retired betwixt present and October 2027. And if you need your hole of Robert Pattinson being a weirdo, you’ve got Mickey 17 hitting successful March.

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