“The Batman II” is expected to be released this weekend. Why do we care?

In another life, we all talk about The Batman II part This weekend. The rest of the Matt Reeves hit in 2022 was designed for the first time for October 3, 2025, to be put off several times by Hollywood and other misfortunes. This is now happening on October 1, 2027, and whether or not it lands this release date, fans are waiting with a breath to learn everything they can on the film. Will he present Robin? Is the owl courtyard the villain, or is it Mr. Freeze? The powers that will make Robert Pattinson the Batman of the newly launched DC universe?

The request for answers degenerated to the point that the boss of the DC, James Gunn, played a handful of times, saying at one point to the people to leave the man alone while working on the script.

Ramy speculation and anticipation have always been part of the fandoms, especially for superheroes. But it is prudent to say that it has become a greater beast over the years thanks to the leaks and rumors of scoopers involving or by asidely indicating what they have learned on social networks, rarely with anyone who was rejecting on what comes out and the sharing of those who are eager to hear everything that concerns their favorite thing.

Some discoveries end up being true, others incredibly incorrect. Anyway, they do their job while keeping something in conversation when the official channels do not do what some would consider their reasonable diligence and provide a frequent update flow. Any silence that lasts more than a few days is a sign that the next project is washed and that its creators have lost their spark or that it was quietly canceled.

There is no need to pretend The Batman II part or insomniac Wolverine The game – which also took place without new years before being officially unveiled at the end of September, after the pirated studio in 2024 – would face silent purposes. WB and Sony are noisy companies, and if something of this stature had been emptied, we would have known it now.

But the fear they disappear thanks to the two companies (and much more) that kill projects like Batgirl, Naughty Dog multiplayer Last of us Spinoff, and too much to count. According to whom you ask, the fear of not knowing that something happens is worse than knowing that it will never come, as indicated by Hollow knight: Silksong Become a meme thanks to its dubious existence from 2018 to August last.

After years of what fans would consider a feast of great works of intellectual property – and occasional snack on sufficiently decent – this series of cancellations of recent years has left a feeling of resentment and betrayal in their wake. It is one thing to see Leslie Grace in Batgirl’s Burnside costume and hear that this film was made before its premature end. This is another thing to get waves of ideas for the developer of a game to the intention or to see the value of the minutes in a major window, as we have seen with Monolith Wonderful woman And the initiative Perfect Dark.

Between the films and the canceled games, the news of the latter prick so much more thanks to the layoffs which follow the immediate consequences and the new post-arcèlation revealing development rough In a form or form, or the mother’s mother company was not willing to see the project until the end. All fans love in the world can do wonders, but they can do nothing against “market conditions”, the crunch or the growing interest of companies for AI.

At the end of the 2010s, Io9 wrote about how fandoms have gradually become linked to companies that have the IP they love. Five years in the 1920s, and the Fandoms now see the backlash of this synthesis by being cursed in knowledge. Many fans have decided to know everything about a game, a film, a show or an artist and finish with the spiral if the news does not emerge or do not arrive with potentially disturbing implications. They should know who is involved in the project from top to bottom and how they progress so that they know what creatives to rally or disdain, or if they need it, shake these creators to life if their pulse begins to fade.

Fixing on the coming things, as The Batman II part And Wolverinewill not end. We already see this with an alleged journey from Tiktok Creator to Scotland to demand that Rockstar North gives more information, turn off a new trailer and say something Around May 2026 Grand Theft Auto 6: To be a fan of something is to want to constantly do something, so wait for what will happen.

In this regard, Reeves and the company should take as much time as they need it Batman II—Unless something catastrophic occurs, it is not as if this saga of epic crime is likely to really lose its momentum or its place in the landscape of the superhero.

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