UPDATE 2 9/27: Our Paramount insider now says the studio is expecting a mega hit from The Batman Part II, with Pattinson 100% locked in.
UPDATE 9/25: Pattinson breaks down The Batman for GQ, revealing the 1989 comic he built his Batman on and how he came up with the voice.
Robert Pattinson doesn’t see his Batman crossing over into other DC movies.
Some fans may have wanted Pattinson’s Dark Knight on screen with David Corenswet’s Superman since last year, but asked about it in a new interview with LADbible, Pattinson explained why he thinks it wouldn’t work.
“I think it would be kind of tough to have this version of Bruce outside of that world,” Pattinson said. “It’s one of the only characters I guess because of the length of the shoots but also it’s such a specific kind of [style], the tone of it gets inside you.”
While he called the idea “interesting,” he also said he just doesn’t see how this Bruce Wayne fits anywhere else.
Gotham Is A Shed In Watford
Pattinson did the interview alongside Primetime co-star Skyler Gisondo, who plays Jimmy Olsen in the DCU.
Asked how his Batman would hold up next to a lighter character like Gisondo’s Olsen, Pattinson joked he would just “make the other characters more serious.”
Then he got into what shooting in Matt Reeves’ Gotham actually does to him.
“It’s so funny, because Gotham is Watford. It’s a shed in Watford,” Pattinson said. “There’s something so destabilising about when you’re just, you’re in the dark the whole time.”
The shed in question is Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, where The Batman Part II is shooting now.
“I mean just for eight months in the dark and you literally have no conception of being connected to anything in the world,” Pattinson continued, adding it is “difficult to even maintain your sanity.”
The first movie left a mark too.
“I remember that happened to me the last time I did it, it took a while. You’re just in the dark, the whole time. Both mood-wise and light-wise, I can’t see anything for like months,” Pattinson said.
“It does affect you like you feel strange afterwards,” he added.
As for this Bruce Wayne getting dropped into a brighter DC movie, Pattinson joked he would be hiding behind his hands going “I can’t see.”
The Batman And Jimmy Olsen Crossover Is Primetime
The team-up is happening anyway, just not in Gotham or Metropolis.
Pattinson and Gisondo star together in Primetime, which opens in theaters September 25. Pattinson plays To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, with Gisondo as Dan Plum, a character based on the decoys who posed as kids on the show.
Gisondo joked he realized during auditions what the pairing meant: “Batman and Jimmy Olsen going after paedophiles.” He called it a “pretty cool idea.”
Gisondo’s DC schedule is full on its own. He returns as Jimmy Olsen in HBO Max’s The People v. Gorilla Grodd, which is filming now in Atlanta.
Under Ellison, DC Goes Project By Project
James Gunn has faced the Pattinson crossover question too, telling ET that “isn’t what’s happening right now.”
Pattinson’s answer also fits where our insiders say DC is headed once the Paramount merger closes.
On August 21, our sources laid out David Ellison’s plan, and it has no shared universe in it at all.
“SnyderVerse and other DC IPs will be totally separate. No shared universe. Every director gets their own,” the source told us.
Our original source confirmed it independently: “Exactly what I heard about project by project basis with focus on directors vision.”
Reeves’ Gotham gets its own track under that plan, with Ellison going all in on Batman and Reeves finishing his trilogy.
Pattinson says it would be tough to take this Bruce out of that world. Per our sources, the incoming regime has no plans to try.
Meanwhile, we’re told James Gunn’s DCU contract is set to expire next year, and he’ll be out.
As for the movie itself, Pattinson just called it “a real left turn” from the first one.
Pattinson suits back up in The Batman Part II, in theaters and IMAX February 18, 2028. All our coverage of the sequel lives in the The Batman Part II guide.
