Robert Pattinson Breaks Silence on ‘The Batman Part II' Shutdown: “We're Going To Figure It Out”

Robert Pattinson has offered his first comments since “The Batman Part II” shut down last week, and he's keeping it short.

“We’re pausing for a little bit and then we’re going to figure it all out,” Pattinson told the Official Pop Drop at the U.K. premiere of his new film, “Primetime.”

That’s it. No timeline, no details.

If you remember, on October 5, Warner Bros. confirmed that Matt Reeves had stepped away from the shoot, which has been “temporarily paused” while he focuses on a family matter. Cameras had been rolling in the U.K. since May. There’s still no word on whether the February 18, 2028 release date will hold.

As I wrote last week, this pause wasn’t a total shock to anyone who has followed this sequel. Back in 2025, I reported that Reeves was going through something serious in his private life, and that it was the main reason the film kept slipping. It has been ongoing since he started writing the script.

Pattinson’s comments, vague as they are, line up with the ongoing belief to let Reeves deal with this serious matter in private. Nobody on this production is going to rush him back, and nobody should.

Meanwhile, Sebastian Stan, who's playing Harvey Dent in the sequel, doesn’t sound too optimistic when asked about the pause. "We're in a very deep, deep winter on the Batman movie," he tells IndieWire. Read that however you want, but to me it sounds like a guy telling you, as politely as he can, that this thing is frozen.

So what's this pause actually costing? Nobody at Paramount, Warner Bros. or Skydance is going to cough up a number, and I'm not going to make one up. That being said, a movie this big, stalled mid-shoot, Pattinson, Johansson and Stan all sitting around, crews being paid to wait, stages sitting empty. You're easily looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, maybe more. Cue the internet deciding Reeves might get replaced. Please don't. This is Reeves' movie, and bringing in some replacement just to hit a release date would be a betrayal of the whole thing. Let the guy deal with his family. The movie's waited four years. It can wait a few more months.