‘The Batman’ Star Robert Pattinson Jokingly Says He Won’t Be “Young Batman” For Too Much Longer: “I’m Going To Be F**king Old Batman By The Sequel”

This week sees the return of the director Bong Joon-ho (Best Director and Best Picture Oscar winner for his comedic Korean-language class thriller “Parasite”) with his new satirical sci-fi flick “Mickey 17” which sees star Robert Pattinson (“The Batman”) playing multiple versions of a character after he’s agreed to join a cloning program to help feel-out the dangers of colonizing off-world planets.

During an actor-on-actor interview with “Mickey 17” co-star Naomi Ackie for Hero Magazine, Pattinson jokingly commented on the extended delays on “The Batman” sequel (“The Batman Part II” expected to shoot later this year) by teasing that he might go from “young Batman” to “old Batman” given the five-year gap between installments.

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“I f**king hope so,” Pattinson said when Ackie asked about the status of his return as the Caped Crusader. “I started out as young Batman and I’m going to be fucking old Batman by the sequel…I’m 38, I’m old.” Pattinson then pulled back a bit on that sentiment, “I’m old, but I’m healthier. I think I’ve actually brought my biological age down a bit.”

Originally, director and co-writer Matt Reeves had stated he was aiming for a trilogy of Batman films with Pattinson but getting a script ready while Reeves had been developing some spinoff shows like the acclaimed “The Penguin” on HBO, a now abandoned Arkham Asylum series, and is also producing a newly announced animated film “The Dynamic Duo.”

Those DC Comics projects had been taking up Reeves’ attention and finding the right angle/villain for the follow-up script is surely the task, too. But things seem to be back on track for a theatrical release in October 2027.

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Pattinson’s next feature project will be Christopher Nolan‘s star-studded Greek myth event film, “The Odyssey,” which is currently filming in Morocco and is expected to be where he’ll be heading once the global promotional tour for “Mickey 17” wraps up.

“Mikey 17” opens on March 7 exclusively in theaters.