Robert Pattinson Officially Weighs in on His Batman Joining James Gunn’s DCU

Published Sep 25, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT

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It’s safe to say 2026 is the year of Robert Pattinson, and he’s not slowing down anytime soon as he has even more projects coming out before the end of the year. Pattinson’s year began back in April when he teamed up with Zendaya for*** The Drama***, the underrated A24 rom-com that grossed $134 million at the box office before becoming a streaming smash on HBO Max. Pattinson and Zendaya reunited just a few months later for Christopher Nolan’s new movie, The Odyssey, which is finally coming to VOD this November after crushing dozens of box office records. The duo is teaming up once again at the end of the year for Dune: Part Three, which will be one of the first times in history that a pair of stars had three movies together in the same year.

Between promoting his many movies this year, Robert Pattinson has been hard at work this year shooting the highly anticipated sequel to his 2022 film, The Batman. After suffering several delays, the film is now scheduled to be released in theaters on February 18, 2028, nearly six years after the premiere of the original film. Many fans have speculated that these delays were due to the sequel now taking place in the DCU, but during a recent interview with LADbible to promote his new movie Primetime, Pattinson safely ruled this out: “I think it would be kind of tough to have this version of Bruce outside of that world… it’s such a specific kind of [style], the tone of it gets inside you.” Pattinson has seemingly ruled out his version of Bruce Wayne ever existing in another universe.

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an inconvenient side effect.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

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