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Robert Pattinson in character as Batman, standing in a dimly lit scene from Matt Reeves' film.Photo via Variety

Robert Pattinson Says His Batman Doesn't Fit Gunn's DCU

The actor tells LADbible that the mood of Matt Reeves' films made the shoot itself hard to shake off, long after cameras stopped rolling.

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Robert Pattinson has more or less answered a question DC fans have been arguing over since James Gunn's Superman landed last year: no, his Batman probably doesn't belong in that world.

Talking to LADbible, Pattinson said it would be "kind of tough" to fit his version of Bruce Wayne into Gunn's connected DC Universe. His reasoning wasn't about plot logistics or timelines. It was about mood.

"The tone of it gets inside you," Pattinson said of shooting Matt Reeves' Batman films. "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. It does affect you, like you feel strange afterwards."

That's not a small thing to say about a job. Months on a set built for shadow, not sunlight, apparently leaves a mark that doesn't come off the day the schedule wraps.

Two DCs, two temperatures

The split has been baked in from the start. Reeves' 2022 film went the opposite direction from anything Gunn has attempted. Variety critic Peter Debruge described it at the time as an attempt to go "darker than The Dark Knight, deadlier than No Time to Die and longer than Dune."

Gunn's Superman, released in 2025, sits nowhere near that register. Variety's Owen Gleiberman called it a "loopy, spinning, multifaceted story with genuine emotional stakes," a film built on hope rather than gloom.

Put those two descriptions side by side and Pattinson's point makes itself. You can't really drop a character shaped by months of literal darkness into a universe designed to feel light on its feet, not without breaking one of them.

That doesn't mean DC Studios has made any formal call on how, or whether, Reeves' Batman corner ever intersects with Gunn's main universe on paper. Pattinson was talking about his own experience playing the role, not laying out studio policy. But as far as the actor closest to the role is concerned, the door isn't exactly open.

What's confirmed is the calendar. The Batman Part II hits theatres on February 18, 2028, still under Reeves, still — by every account so far, staying in its own lane rather than reporting in to Gunn's DCU. Whether that stays true once the sequel actually starts rolling out marketing is the next thing worth watching.

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