Director Matt Reeves has created a dark and gritty Gotham that the fans have really responded to in his film The Batman, and its spinoff series The Penguin. We are all looking forward to the film’s sequel, The Batman: Part II, and it has been slow-going, but we are steadily inching toward the second film, and we have an update today. Reeves confirmed to Variety on the Emmy’s red carpet that the script for “Part II” is finally done and shooting is set to begin early next year.“We start shooting [the film] in spring, probably around the end of April or beginning of May. It’s been a long journey, but I am so incredibly excited. I’m really proud of the script me and Mattson [Tomlin] did, and we’ve started to share it with Robert [Pattinson].” Reeves revealed his excitement for coming back to the gritty world of Gotham and the lengths The Batman team had to go to keep the script under wraps. “We put [the script] into a secret pouch that literally has a lock on it with a code. [Pattinson] was in New York at the time, and everything is high security.” After finishing reading the script, Pattinson got to keep the script in the locked pouch: “We really trust Rob, because he’s the best.”Reeves served as an executive producer and a writing supervisor on HBO’s The Penguin. While Season 1 is labeled as a limited series, Reeves revealed that the team is actively thinking of a potential second season. “We’re in discussions. [Showrunner] Lauren [Lefranc] is thinking hard and we’re talking, so we’ll see. We love the show, and we think our cast is so incredible. The work that Lauren and the writers did was incredible. Our passion was in it, but never in our wildest dreams could we imagine it would have been received in the way that it was.”Stay tuned for updates on the sequel and the series.