James Gunn Desires You to Chill About The Batman Half II’s Delay

On Friday, WB revealed it was shuffling round a few of its films, primarily The Batman’s sequel. Matt Reeves’ sequel was initially meant to hit on October 2, 2026 is now arriving October 1, 2027. And followers are taking it…not effectively.

Since information of The Batman Half II’s delay, social media’s been crammed with jokes and issues about what the heck is happening. Why’s it taking 5 years to do a film, is the entire TBECS enterprise washed—of us simply need some solutions. On Threads, James Gunn defined the movie’s script hadn’t been accomplished, and that director/co-writer Matt Reeves was “dedicated to creating the most effective movie he probably can.” He additional argued it’s “pretty frequent” for a franchise to have 5 or extra years between installments, and cited a number of as proof: Incredibles (14 years), the primary two Alien movies (7 years), Avatar (13 years), and even his personal Guardians of the Galaxy (6 years, albeit not by choice).

It didn’t take lengthy for commenters to hone in on that and argue there’ve been different franchises with much less time between installments: your Marvel films, your Star Wars (a minimum of, initially), and so forth. Nonetheless, Gunn’s general level is principally, “yeah, there’s a delay, simply calm down.” It’s simpler requested than performed, particularly given some extra context: Reeves’ first Batman was initially meant to hit in June 2021, and acquired pushed again twice on account of COVID. This information additionally comes not lengthy after Sony introduced the directors for Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse, which would’ve been out this 12 months, and is coming in…TBD. What’s extra, Andy Muschietti, director of the opposite main Batman film, the previously-announced Brave & the Bold, lately indicated that was placed on the backburner for undisclosed causes. For followers able to gobble up any info on these films, not figuring out something about Spider-Verse or both Batflick—and never figuring out when they’ll know—pisses them off.

Sadly for them, they’ll simply must deal. The Batman Half II‘s not the one superhero film to get delayed, and several other blockbusters have used that lengthy wait between sequels to their benefit. (Living proof: the best way the web lit up for the trailer to the first Superman movie in over a decade.) Corny as it’s to say “let Reeves prepare dinner,” that’s actually all we will do. There’ll be different films out between now and October 2027. And when you want your repair of Robert Pattinson being a weirdo, you’ve acquired Mickey 17 hitting in March.

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