
Warner Bros.
- The Batman has been a massive success both critically and commercially.
- Given the money it’s made and the praise it’s received, a sequel to the film is inevitable.
- Batman fans have taken to Twitter to hilariously name the sequel.
With The Batman racking up $134 million domestically and $248 million globally, and boasting a healthy 86% critics score and 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, Warner Bros. greenlighting a sequel to Matt Reeves’ crime epic is a lock.
Given that The Batman was the first film in a new franchise, naming the project was quite a simple task. Figuring out a title for the sequel, though, will prove to be a bit more complicated as the studio attempts to market it as widely as they can while maintaining Matt Reeves’ creative integrity.
Take The Dark Knight, for example: did you know that’s the first Batman movie to not have the word Batman in it? With that in mind, could the sequel to The Batman possibly be titled The Caped Crusader? Only time will tell.
In the meantime, though, we posed the question to social media — “What do you think the sequel to The Batman will be called? — and the responses have ranged from genuine (The Batman and the Catwoman is my guess, for example) to the goofy, such as 2 Bat 2 Man and Batman 2: Electric Bugaloo.
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A Batman https://t.co/kdmQGZWQur
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) March 9, 2022
BATMAN 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO https://t.co/AcpkEAAZLo
— Count Mysterioso (@MysteriosoX) March 9, 2022
The Empire Strikes Bat https://t.co/490laIudzG
— Fuck off (@Get_effed) March 9, 2022
The Batmen https://t.co/f1K0vIdaKM
— Finlay Robertson (@iamfinlay) March 9, 2022
https://t.co/1Hm7WUiiNa pic.twitter.com/RqH8o1Rc2e
— Ben Mekler (@benmekler) March 9, 2022
THE BATMAN$ https://t.co/8pwlfxV5n6
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) March 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/amermalik12/status/1501593766955782144
https://twitter.com/heavyspoilers/status/1501517728124964869
https://twitter.com/awaisissdead/status/1501547959854501889
https://twitter.com/teaforpterosaur/status/1501541529848061959
All The Batmans And That https://t.co/z594680TFT
— Dan Carney (@AstronautHeart) March 9, 2022
The Batmans https://t.co/IdJh43PRTI
— Simon Thompson (@ShowbizSimon) March 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/DankAckroyd/status/1501488788987691009
Some suggestions=
The Batman 2 – Bat harder
The Batman 2 – Quantum of Bat
The Batman 2 – Gotham Drift
The Batman 2 – Batman v Predator
The Batman 2 – I know what you did in the last Batman #TheBatman https://t.co/68T0CvWVUz— Lee 💙 (@billbo1977) March 9, 2022
2 Bat 2 Man or The Batman Reloaded https://t.co/MWQqsZ0IzR
— Jay 🪐🇨🇩 (@J_Onaka) March 9, 2022
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The Batman — which stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/Riddler, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Jeffrey Wright as Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and Peter Sarsgaard as Gotham District Attorney Gil Colson — is now playing in theaters.
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