Via Deadline, in a series of posts on X, The Batman: Part II director Matt Reeves has confirmed Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, and Charles Dance are joining the cast of the sequel, while also revealing Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, Eternals) and German actor Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others) will appear in undisclosed roles.
While Reeves did not share who any of these actors are playing, it has been widely reported by many outlets that Stan has been cast as district attorney Harvey Dent (aka Two-Face), while Johansson is playing his wife Gilda, and Dance is portraying his abusive father, Charles (Christopher, and then Harvey Sr. in the comics).
Assuming these reports are accurate, the film will present a more comics-accurate take on Dent’s transformation into Two-Face than 2008’s The Dark Knight, which eschewed the coin-tossing villain’s traditional portrayal as someone with dissociative identity disorder, in favor of simply having him turn mad from grief, and a desire for revenge.
Stan, Johansson, and Henry are all MCU veterans, who respectively play or portrayed Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, and the Eternal Phastos. Henry also voices Miles Morales’s father Jefferson in the Spider-Verse films, and portrayed D-16/Megatron in 2024’s Transformers One, opposite Johansson as Elita-1. This will actually mark his second DC credit, as he played the Arkham clerk Carl in 2019’s Joker.
What little else Reeves has confirmed about The Batman: Part II is that it will take place during winter, with the director revealing test shots of the Batmobile driving through snow. The film will be released on October 1, 2027, and see the return of Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Andy Serkis as Alfred, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb/The Penguin, Jayme Lawson as Mayor Bella Reál, and Gil Perez-Abraham as Officer Martinez.
The film will remain in its own world with The Penguin TV series, and not be folded into the wider DC Studios universe of Superman, Peacemaker et al. However, Reeves remains heavily involved in other Batman-related projects at the company, and serves as a producer on the upcoming horror release Clayface (set in the DCU instead of The Batman universe), due out in theaters on October 22, 2026.
