Beware The Batman (film)

Batman: A Long Halloween is a 2023 American superhero film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Matt Reeves and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Based on the DC comics character Batman, the film serves as the sequel to the 2022 film The Batman, and the second instalment in the Batman Trilogy. It stars Robert Pattinson supported by Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Jeffrey Wright, Jon Hamm, Jonathan Groff, LaKeith Stanfield, and Colin Farrell. Set seven months after the first film, Batman (Pattinson), and Police Captain James Gordon (Wright) form an unlikely alliance in order to collapse organized crime in Gotham City, but are stopped in their tracks by the unexpected murder of John Viti, the nephew of deceased mob boss Carmine Falcone. The murder of Viti and the looming threat of a greater conspiracy at hand plunges the recovering city of Gotham into chaos.

Development began around one month after the theatrical release of the first film.

Plot
In June, Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent is attacked by members of the Cobblepot crime family outside of a party attended by Billionaire Bruce Wayne and his on-off girlfriend Selina Kyle. As Wayne and Kyle begin to leave the party they hear Dent being brutalized in a nearby alley way; and help him escape. Bruce now disguise as the vigilante Batman investigates the murder of John Viti, nephew of crime boss Carmine Falcone alongside both the Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) Captain Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent. During the probe Batman and Dent discover a pistol using the nipple of a baby's bottle as a silencer.

Cast

 * Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne / Batman: Pattinson returns as a now gregarious billionaire and socialite who continues to obsessively protects Gotham City as the masked vigilante Batman. Bruce is approximately 30 years old and started his vigilantism around 2017, and serves as a less-seasoned more violent Batman.  Reeves described Batman as an insomniac who cannot delineate between the Batman persona and his "extroverted rockstar" personality as Bruce, opposing Wayne's recluse nature in the first film. Pattinson and Reeves said the film would delve deeper into Batman as a heroic symbol of hope "rather than the dark and brooding vigilante he was portrayed as in the initial half of the first movie.
 * Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle / Catwoman:
 * Jon Hamm as Harvey Dent:
 * Jonathan Groff as Dr. Thomas Elliot / Hush
 * Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon:
 * LaKeith Stanfield as Dr. Jonathan Crane:
 * Colin Farrell as Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot / Penguin:

Additionally, Paul Dano returns as Edward Nashton (now going by Nygma) / Riddler, and Barry Keoghan makes a cameo appearance as the Joker (credited as "Jack"). Twins Charlie and Max Carver return as Iceberg Lounge bouncers (credited as "The Twins"). Other cast members include, Luke Roberts and Stella Stocker as Thomas and Martha Wayne, and (WIP) as Edward Elliot.