Thus far, December 2025 has been pretty great for comic book movie fans. Just this past weekend, James Gunn announced the casting of Lars Eidinger in the role of Brainiac for his upcoming Superman sequel Man Of Tomorrow, and that news came on the heels of the first full Supergirl trailer arriving online plus Avengers: Doomsday teasers playing in theaters. Unfortunately, however, you can’t please every section of the fan community: if you are presently holding your breath for some kind of official reveal for writer/director Matt Reeves’ The Batman: Part II before the start of 2026, you want to just go ahead and exhale now.
As he has been known to do, James Gunn spent some recent hours on Threads responding to questions and comments from social media followers excited about what’s currently in the works at DC Studios. He addressed a number of rumors in his posts, and one specifically explains why we just got that new Man Of Tomorrow news over the weekend while things have been quiet on the Batman: Part II front. In short, he was confident that the casting was going to leak anyway, and there isn’t presently anything to announce about the next blockbuster about the Caped Crusader. The filmmaker/executive wrote,
