Matt Reeves Adds 5 Names as The Batman Cast Starts Liverpool Shoot
The Batman cast has started filming in Liverpool, England, with Matt Reeves adding five new names as production moved into the city on Thursday 21 May. Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Charles Dance, Brian Tyree Henry and Sebastian Koch are now attached to the sequel, which has spent more time on delay notices than on set.
Liverpool on 21 May
Thursday 21 May is the first hard production marker for The Batman Part II after a long stretch of schedule changes. Reeves used posts on X last week to bring Johansson, Stan, Dance, Henry and Koch into the film, and he did not say which roles they will play.
Fans at the Liverpool location spotted a stunt double for Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne, a damaged and snow-covered Gotham City Police Department vehicle, and a new logo for the film on an Alexa265 camera. Those details point to a live set rather than another round of preproduction noise, which is the kind of signal the sequel needed after months of waiting.
Reeves on X
“Next exit, Gotham… Welcome.” Reeves wrote as he introduced Johansson. He used a second post to add Stan: “In a Gotham state of mind… Welcome.” The captions are doing the job the studio usually reserves for a formal cast list, and they leave the film’s character breakdown still open.
Johansson, Stan, Dance, Henry and Koch widen the cast around Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne, but the lack of role details keeps the marketing lane narrow for now. That is the friction point in this rollout: the movie has a start date on set, yet the production is still holding back the most basic casting map.
October 2027 Schedule
Friday 1st October 2027 is still the release date, after the film moved from October 2025 to October 2026 and then to October 2027. Two delays and a fresh start in Liverpool turn this into a patience test for the franchise, but filming now gives the sequel its first visible momentum in months.
For readers tracking the film as a business event, the takeaway is simple: principal photography in Liverpool means the project has finally advanced beyond calendar shuffling. The cast list is growing, the camera is rolling, and the next meaningful update will come from what Reeves chooses to show next, not from another date change.
