@Nebula - They started shooting The Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman 84 two years before release, and they started casting for Dune 2 and a half years before release; I think this is just how WB operates with their bigger films. They're not Pixar where they announce the movie's information & cast a year before release

"After he was cast as Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Ben Affleck began developing a DCEU Batman film with Geoff Johns, and was attached to direct, write, produce, and star. In January 2017, Affleck stepped down from directing and writing after struggling with the story and so he could focus on playing Batman. Reeves took over directorial and scripting duties the following month and reworked the story to focus on a younger Batman, hoping to emphasize the detective aspect of the character to a greater extent than previous films. Affleck stepped down from starring in January 2019, and Pattinson was cast the following May. Principal photography began in London, England in January 2020."
— Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(film).

We've had update after update after update ever since then. Remember the amount of articles on Ben's flip flopping in and out? At least now it's more focused.

@Nebula - you’re talking about a Batman movie? Batman and his characters have become the holy grail of character potential.

The production on these movies and the stakes of getting it correct are ridiculously higher after the amount of films that have succeeded and flopped. Especially after Warner Brothers embarrassed themselves and the Batman property again and forced a quick turn around to bank on a (for what it’s worth) highly disappointing Batman V Superman film.

So yeah I don’t blame them for wanting to take a few years to make sure they’ve got everything right this time. Not to mention by the sound of things, Reeves had to do an entire 180° curve ball with what sort of Batman film this was going to be. He had to convince the studio to reboot again, to scrap Academy Award Screenplay Winner Writer Ben Affleck’s script, convince them of his vision and not theirs, as well as probably persist to the studio to give him breathing room from anything to do with the DCEU Batman.

Wonder Woman 84 doesn’t need any of those factors for their production because it has the same director, the same cast, the same producers. The story was just to be written, then the checks were to be signed.

@WAKANDABATMANFOREVER - I fully agree there buddy!

@tmp3 - That's were I remember them from! The fun twins from S01. Good times.

@Repian - Exactly!

Plus the actor looks around the same age as Pattinson so I can see them being close friends as Bruce and Harvey.