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Sebastian Stan called The Batman: Part II ambitious and a challenge as he prepares to play Harvey Dent in Matt Reeves’ London-shot sequel, opening October 2027.
Sebastian Stan, fresh off the Palme d’Or win for Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, is heading to London this summer to shoot The Batman: Part II, where he will play Harvey Dent opposite Robert Pattinson‘s Batman.
Stan has been cast as the Gotham district attorney whose disfigurement transforms him into Two-Face. The production, helmed by Matt Reeves, will begin filming in London over the summer ahead of a confirmed October 1, 2027 theatrical release.
Deadline’s exclusive interview at the Cannes closing ceremony, threading Fjord’s win with Stan’s upcoming Batman work captured the actor’s first substantive comments on the DC role. “It’s a challenge, like everything else,” Stan said. “I feel like it’s a really ambitious movie.”
His enthusiasm for working with Reeves is on the record. “I’m so excited about Matt Reeves because he’s been one of my favorites for a long, long time,” Stan said. “I really think it’s going to blow people away. It’s going to surprise a lot of people, I think, too.”
The casting marks Stan’s first DC project after years anchoring the MCU as Bucky Barnes, most recently in this year’s Thunderbolts*. He spent the past 18 months pivoting between studio properties and indie work, picking up a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Apprentice, his Donald Trump portrayal, and disappearing under prosthetics for A24’s A Different Man.
The Batman: Part II returns the principal cast from Reeves’ 2022 original. CinemaBlend’s unpack of Stan’s comments and how Dent fits into Reeves’ established Gotham notes that Pattinson is back as Bruce Wayne, with Zoë Kravitz returning as Selina Kyle, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred, and Colin Farrell as the Penguin.
London holds particular significance for Stan. He spent a year studying at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2003, well before the MCU run that built his name.
For now, the actor’s center of gravity is Fjord. He plays a Romanian father of five who relocates his family to his Norwegian wife’s small hometown, where the family’s Christian beliefs and parenting practices put them in conflict with local authorities. Their children are removed by social services.
Stan, who himself moved from Romania to the United States at age 12, told Deadline the film hit close. “All they want is to fit in and to be accepted,” he said of the children in the story. “But when you’re an immigrant and you’re a kid, and you’ve got society telling you one thing and your parents are telling you another thing, where’s room for you left in any of that?”
Fjord’s Palme d’Or win was presented Saturday night at the Grand Théâtre Lumière by Tilda Swinton, who pushed back during the ceremony on press takes that called the 79th festival a weak year. Times Now News’s summary of Stan’s Cannes appearances and Batman press track captures the actor as one of the few names who carried significant marquee weight across the festival.
Neon holds U.S. rights to Fjord. The film is now positioned for a late-year awards run with Stan and Renate Reinsve, who plays his wife, as the principal contenders.
The Batman: Part II shoots over the summer. Fjord opens in U.S. theaters later this year. The two halves of Stan’s 2026 plate are nothing alike.
