Alejandro González Iñárritu and Tom Cruise are flying into the fall 2026 movie season. Their untitled feature will arrive on Oct. 2, 2026, Warner Bros. announced Friday.
That slides into the date previously occupied by Matt Reeves’ The Batman sequel, which is currently untitled (it was previously called The Batman: Part II). The DC Studios film is expected to go into production in the third quarter of 2025, and is now set for Oct. 1, 2027. The Batman sequel has sported multiple release dates since it was announced in 2022, with the methodical Reeves working to perfect the script.
“Matt is committed to making the best film he possibly can, and no one can accurately guess exactly how long a script will take to write,” DC Studios co-chief James Gunn wrote on Threads on Friday. “Once there is a finished script, there is around two years for pre-production, shooting and post-production on big films.”
Meanwhile, The Batman star Robert Pattinson and filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming Mickey 17 is swapping release dates with director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners. Mickey 17 now opens March 7, 2025, while Sinners bows on April 18, 2025.
Cruise and Iñárritu’s movie, from Warners and Legendary, marks Iñárritu’s first English-language film since the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer The Revenant nearly a decade ago. It is also the first film to emerge from Cruise’s new deal with Warners.
The untitled pic stars Cruise as the most powerful man in the world, who embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything. Iñárritu will direct from a script he wrote with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolás Giacobone. Legendary’s Mary Parent is producing alongside Iñárritu and Cruise.
Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde and Riz Ahmed co-star.
The decision to switch Mickey 17 and Sinners is due to delays in finishing Sinners because of Coogler’s desire to use film to shoot the movie, and the scarcity of labs that can assist in production and postproduction work, according to insiders.
