The Batman: Part II has added several major new names to its cast, with Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Brian Tyree Henry, Charles Dance and Sebastian Koch all confirmed for Matt Reeves’ return to Gotham. The Bat-Signal is going to be busy.
Reeves confirmed the additions in a series of posts on X, welcoming each actor into The Batman universe. Johansson’s role remains under wraps, while Stan is set to play Harvey Dent, the Gotham district attorney known to DC fans as the future Two-Face. Dance is believed to be playing Harvey’s father, Charles Dent.
Robert Pattinson will return as Bruce Wayne/Batman, with Colin Farrell also back as Oz Cobb, better known as the Penguin. Jeffrey Wright returns as James Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Jayme Lawson as Mayor Bella Reál and Gil Perez-Abraham as Officer Martinez.
Plot details are still being closely guarded, because Gotham does love making us work for it. Reeves has teased that the sequel will dig further into Bruce Wayne himself, after the first film focused so heavily on Batman and the city’s criminal underworld. The director co-wrote the script with Mattson Tomlin.
The sequel follows 2022’s The Batman, which introduced Pattinson’s darker, more detective-led take on the character and went on to gross $772 million worldwide. The film also expanded into HBO’s The Penguin, led by Farrell, which helped keep Reeves’ version of Gotham alive between big-screen instalments.
For CultureCues, this is exactly the kind of casting news that makes a return to Gotham feel even bigger. Johansson moving from Marvel to DC is already a headline-grabber, Stan as Harvey Dent gives the sequel a properly loaded character to play with, and adding actors like Brian Tyree Henry and Charles Dance only raises the stakes further. Gotham just got very interesting.
The Batman: Part II is currently set to open in cinemas on 1 October 2027.
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