After two calendar years (2020 and 2021) decimated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2022 has seen Hollywood starting to rebound. The first legitimate blockbuster of 2022 came in March, when The Batman (Certified Fresh at 85%) opened to numbers that eventually totaled over $770 million worldwide. Director Matt Reeves delivered an alternate vision of Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson) and Gotham City, including new takes on Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz), The Penguin (Colin Farrell), The Riddler (Paul Dano), and not-yet-Commissioner Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), but Batman’s rogues gallery is massive, so there are many villains left for sequels. Unsurprisingly, that’s exactly what we’ll be getting within the next five years (so, by 2027). It’s also important to stress that as James Gunn and Peter Safran have been taking their new positions as the leaders of DC Studios, both Robert Pattinson’s The Batman sequel and Joaquin Phoenix’s sequel Joker: Folie a Deux (10/4/2024) have been confirmed as being separate from their new vision for DC, meaning that they won’t be cancelled or shelved (like Batgirl, for example).