The Batman Production Halted After Robert Pattinson Tests Positive For COVID-19?

According to Vanity Fair, a source confirmed that Pattinson was the actor who became sick. Earlier this year, the filming had begun in Glasgow but was halted for six months along with all the other projects in the entertainment industry, as the pandemic hit the world. The superhero drama was set to release in June 2021 but has been postponed to October 2021.

Earlier, Matt Reeves had revealed that the film will follow Batman who is in his second year of vigilantism while trying to solve a series of gruesome serial killings. The trailer also showed glimpses of other huge characters from the DC universe, like Paul Dano's The Riddler, Zoë Kravitz's Selina Kyle (before she becomes the criminal Catwoman), and the underworld figure Oswald Cobblepot, nicknamed The Penguin behind his back, played by Colin Farrell.

While unveiling the new trailer at the DC Fandome event, Matt had said, "It's a criminological experiment. He's trying to figure out what he can do to finally change this place. You see that he's charting what he's doing, and he's seeing he isn't having any of the effect that he wants to have yet. The murders start to happen, and the murders start to describe a history of Gotham. It only reinforces what he knows about Gotham, but opens up a whole world of corruption that went much further."

The film also stars Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner James Gordon, Andy Serkis plays Bruce Wayne's loyal butler Alfred, and John Turturro is the gangster Carmine Falcone.