Deadline is now reporting that Dance will play Christopher Dent, the imposing (and, if lore holds, abusive) father to Harvey Dent, who will be brought to screens this time by Sebastian Stan.
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And we now also know that Scarlett Johansson, whose part until recently has been a mystery, will be Dent’s wife.
Little is known officially about what Pattinson’s Caped Crusader will tackle, but we do know that Farrell is back as Oz Cobb, the villainous gangster nicknamed “The Penguin” while Jeffrey Wright (James Gordon) is also predicted to be back.
We can probably expect to see Batman tackle another menace from his rogues’ gallery, with Barry Keoghan teased as a potential Joker at the end of the original movie, but nothing confirmed about him actually playing the role.
When will ‘The Batman: Part II’ be in theaters?
Following a variety of release date shifts as Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin honed the script, the movie is currently set to land on screens on October 1, 2027.
Andy Serkis is returning for ‘The Batman: Part II.’
He’ll be back as Alfred Pennyworth.
Matt Reeves is once more directing.
While Andy Serkis already has one big movie job he’s busy with –– that would be preparing to direct and play Gollum once again in new ‘Lord of the Rings’ film ‘The Hunt for Gollum’, (not to mention promoting his animated ‘Animal Farm’) he’ll apparently find time in his schedule to revisit another previous gig.
“I’m pretty certain it’s all going to work out. Yeah, we’re working on it, but I think it’s all looking good. I won’t be joining them immediately, but by the end of the year, I will be”.
(L to R) Director Matt Reeves and actor Robert Pattinson on the set of ‘The Batman’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Little is known officially about what Pattinson’s Caped Crusader will tackle, but we do know that Colin Farrell is likely to return as Oz Cobb, the villainous gangster nicknamed “The Penguin” while Jeffrey Wright (James Gordon) is also predicted to be back.
We can probably expect to see Batman tackle another menace from his rogues’ gallery, with Barry Keoghan teased as a potential Joker at the end of the original movie, but nothing confirmed about him actually playing the role.
Following a variety of release date shifts as Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin honed the script, the movie is currently set to land on screens on October 1, 2027.
As with Johansson, Stan’s casting is neither confirmed, nor do we know what role he might play. Though if you ask us, he’s a possible candidate for Harvey Dent/Two-Face, assuming Reeves is even including the character.
Little is known officially about what Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader will tackle, but we do know that Colin Farrell is likely to return as Oz Cobb, the villainous gangster nicknamed “The Penguin” while ‘The Batman’ actors Andy Serkis (Alfred) and Jeffrey Wright (James Gordon) are also predicted to be back.
We can probably expect to see Batman tackle another menace from his rogues’ gallery, with Barry Keoghan teased as a potential Joker at the end of the original movie, but nothing confirmed about him actually playing the role.
And there had been chatter about Clayface, but with the character set to get his own movie within the main DC Studios universe (as opposed to ‘The Batman’, which falls under the ‘Elseworlds’ banner of movies/TV that don’t fit there), we’d expect someone else to threaten our hero.
Following a variety of release date shifts as Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin honed the script, the movie is currently set to land on screens on October 1, 2027.
Scarlett Johansson may be joining ‘The Batman: Part II.’
Her potential role is unknown for now.
Robert Pattinson will return as the Caped Crusader.
With a script in hand and filming set to kick off tomorrow, ‘The Batman: Part II’ writer/director Matt Reeves is building the ensemble around returning star Robert Pattinson (back as Bruce Wayne/Batman).
If Johansson –– who was famously part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Natasha “Black Widow” Romanoff –– does make the leap to DC, we’ll have to wait to learn which role she’ll take as there are no details yet.
Little is known officially about what Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader will tackle, but we do know that Colin Farrell is likely to return as Oz Cobb, the villainous gangster nicknamed “The Penguin” while ‘The Batman’ actors Andy Serkis (Alfred) and Jeffrey Wright (James Gordon) are also predicted to be back.
We can probably expect to see Batman tackle another menace from his rogues’ gallery, with Barry Keoghan teased as a potential Joker at the end of the original movie, but nothing confirmed about him actually playing the role.
And there had been chatter about Clayface, but with the character set to get his own movie within the main DC Studios universe (as opposed to ‘The Batman’, which falls under the ‘Elseworlds’ banner of movies/TV that don’t fit there), we’d expect someone else to threaten our hero.
Could that someone be Johansson?
Where else can we see Scarlett Johansson?
Scarlett Johansson as skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’, directed by Gareth Edwards. Photo: Universal Pictures.
Next up, Johansson will be seen in James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’ opposite Miles Teller and Adam Driver. She also has a variety of other projects in development or making their way towards production, including her potential role as Mother Gothel in the live-action ‘Tangled’ for Disney.
Following a variety of release date shifts as Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin honed the script, the movie is currently set to land on screens on October 1, 2027.
Colin Farrell attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix’s ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on October 9th, 2025 in London, England. Photo by StillMoving.Net for Netflix.
Preview:
Colin Farrell is playing a vengeful priest in ‘Ordained.’
‘John Wick’s Derek Kolstad adapted the script from a forthcoming comic title.
Joe and Anthony Russo will produce.
Can a movie where a priest delivers a touch of the ol’ ultraviolence be considered “faith based”? We’re not sure the target audience for movies with that descriptor would agree, but it makes us chuckle, nonetheless.
‘Ordained’ is based on an upcoming comic book by publisher Bad Idea, created by writer Robert Venditti, illustrator Trevor Hairsine and colorist Dave Stewart.
Farrell will star as Father Roy Craig, a priest who performs last rites on a mob boss who miraculously survives — but not before confessing his crimes to the father.
Soon after, Father Roy finds himself targeted by hitmen, corrupt cops and gangsters — all sent by the mob boss who wants to silence him. But Father Roy secretly has a violent past that makes him a more dangerous target than anyone imagines. (He does, however follow the commandment Thou Shall Not Kill, but we’re fairly sure he’s not above brutal maimings!)
Where else can we see Colin Farrell?
Colin Farrell attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix’s ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on October 9th, 2025 in London, England. Photo by StillMoving.Net for Netflix.
Farrell has had something of a mixed year so far –– he scored plenty of acclaim for 2024’s ‘The Batman’ TV spin-off ‘The Penguin,’ but his 2025 movie work hasn’t fared so well –– ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ got bad reviews and did little business at the box office.
Still, Farrell will likely have more luck (even if he has to get back into the prosthetics) when he reprises the role of Oz Cobb for ‘The Batman II’, which should finally begin shooting next year.
This one is a case of waiting to see which company picks it up. The movie is also without a director at the moment (Kolstad may do it, but that isn’t confirmed yet).
Colin Farrell attends ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ press conference.
‘Ballad Of A Small Player‘ follows a high-stakes gambler (Colin Farrell) whose luck starts to run out when his past and his debts start to catch up with him. While lying low in Macau, he encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation. Moviefone was in attendance at a press conference for the film, which featured Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, and director Edward Berger.
When asked about filming in Macau, Colin Farrell explained how the city itself is a character in ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ and reveals how much he enjoyed being there.
Colin Farrell: I’ve heard folks on our film talk about it being like Vegas on steroids. I found it to be a bit the other way around. The strip itself is brand new. It’s only less than 20 years. When I saw it, it’s really impressive. Don’t get me wrong. It’s so elaborate and ostentatious and it’s so bright and there’s fountains and Celine Dion is pumping through the speakers at all hours of the day. But it feels more family-oriented than Vegas does. There’s not a bunch of strip clubs. There’s no people walking around drinking hurricanes out of a straw. I didn’t see any drunkenness. They’re very, very focused on gambling. It’s really is, sounds obvious to say, but gambling-centric. I loved it. I found it really interesting. I found it to be a place of great contrast.
2) Fala Chen Shares A Trick She Used To Help Get In Character While Filming ‘Ballad Of A Small Player”
(L to R) Director Edward Berger, Fala Chen, and composer Volker Bertelmann attend ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ press conference.
During the press conference, Fala Chen revealed something that was even a surprise to director Edward Berger about how she helped get into character.
Fala Chen: I had Coca-Cola cans, because I couldn’t find sand bags. Last minute, I was like, I need something to weigh down my feet. So I asked Costume to get me something. The temple scene, when we walk, I wanted some weight on my feet that’s not noticeable, but it just helps me, so we had two Coca-Cola cans on my feet. These are things that I played with for Dao Ming’s emotions. When she’s on the island, it’s like floating on the houseboat, so there are a lot of light things going on in her body. Weight was something that I leaned on playing her.
3) Colin Farrell Says Director Edward Berger Has A Rare Energy When It Comes To Making Art
Colin Farrell speaks very highly of director Edward Berger, and his drive to create art.
Colin Farrell: I love to work with Edward. He’s an extraordinary storyteller and he has an attention to detail that is second to none. He’s got possibly the biggest engine. He’s got a huge engine. He can just go and go and go and doesn’t seem to let up. I mean, as is very clearly obvious by the amount of work that he’s doing now. He did ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and that was coming out and he was shooting ‘Conclave’ and then we went to shoot ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’. While we shot ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’, he was flying on his own to promote ‘Conclave’ and then back to ‘Ballad’ and he’s just relentless. He’s like that on the set as well. His curiosity is something that I feel propels him forward, with that energy that I speak of, that engine that I speak of. He’s super kind, really bright. I just think he’s an extraordinary storyteller and I loved working with him.
4) Edward Berger Reveals Why He Is Drawn To Darker Films
A lot of director Edward Berger’s films are on the darker side. Here, he reveals why he is drawn to stories like that.
Edward Berger: There’s nothing to hide, but there is, dark, descending into darkness and escaping from it or coming out of it alive, that makes for good films, I believe. When you throw characters into turmoil, just like we are thrown into turmoil sometimes and go through crises, but what makes us go on is that we get through those and have learned something and come out better in the end and learn to value life afterwards. So I want to do that with films, you know? I want to throw my characters, and they do that for me, so I don’t have to do it in life. They do it for us, for all of us.
5) Colin Farrell Recalls How Fun It Was To Work With Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton and Colin Farrell work very closely together in ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’. Here, Colin discusses how much he loves working with her and what a brilliant actress she is.
Colin Farrell: I had worked with Tilda in a very brief fashion many, many moons ago, like 25 years ago. So it was lovely to get in the sandbox with her and play around and have some more stuff to do this time. I had a blast working with Tilda. Let’s get that out of the way. She’s just magic. I mean, talk about just little micro changes, every take and she’s just so alive. And the dance. That was fun. Tilda was so up for it. She’s a great fun Tilda, she’s an amazing human being. That was fun for the third or fourth take. It was about 16 takes after that for start to finish. It was a lot of footage that day. I was banged up, but it was great. One loves getting banged up because then one has the illusion of doing a decent day’s work.
A high-stakes gambler decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him. Along the way he encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
Colin Farrell attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix’s ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on October 9th, 2025 in London, England. Photo by StillMoving.Net for Netflix.
(Left) Austin Butler stars in ‘Elvis.’ (Right) Don Johnson in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
Preview:
Austin Butler is in early talks for the new ‘Miami Vice’ movie.
Joseph Kosinski is directing.
If he does sign on, Butler would join Michael B. Jordan in the film.
Well, we were at least close with our guess.
Some context: you might recall that recently we brought word that Michael B. Jordan was in early talks to play Detective Ricardo Tubbs in ‘F1’ director Joseph Kosinski’s planned new movie based on iconic cop series ‘Miami Vice’.
We speculated then that Glen Powell might take on the role of fellow cop Sonny Crockett, but it appears Kosinski is looking to hire a different young rising star.
(L to R) Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
‘Miami Vice’ began life in the early 1980s as a TV show created by ‘Hill Street Blues’ writer Anthony Yerkovich, after NBC president Brandon Tartikoff requested a program that combined the style of MTV with a cop series. The result, produced by Michael Mann, starred Don Johnson as Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Tubbs, two detectives working undercover in Miami. The show, which ran for five seasons from 1984 to 1990, became known for its groundbreaking visual style, its hip needle drops, and the fashions worn by its characters, arguably revolutionizing the look of TV crime drama for decades to come.
After Mann moved into directing feature films with ‘The Last of the Mohicans,’ ‘Heat,’ and others, he rebooted ‘Miami Vice’ as a 2006 movie starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs. While not initially a hit with either critics or audiences, the film has since been reappraised and is now considered a cult classic.
(Left) Michael B. Jordan directs and stars as Adonis Creed in ‘Creed III.’ (Right) Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
Preview:
Michael B. Jordan is in early talks for the new ‘Miami Vice’ movie.
Joseph Kosinski is directing.
Universal is behind the new effort.
It may not be at sweltering Miami city levels just yet, but ‘F1’ director Joseph Kosinski’s development of a new movie based on cult detective series ‘Miami Vice’ is certainly heating up.
Kosinski will be working from a script written by Eric Warren Singer and Dan Gilroy, and assuming Jordan’s deal comes together (he’s reportedly very interested), the search will intensify for someone to play Tubbs’ partner Sonny Crockett.
Our guess? Glen Powell. But let’s see where things land.
(L to R) Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
‘Miami Vice’ began life in the early 1980s as a TV show created by ‘Hill Street Blues’ writer Anthony Yerkovich, after NBC president Brandon Tartikoff requested a program that combined the style of MTV with a cop series. The result, produced by Michael Mann, starred Don Johnson as Crockett and Thomas as Rico Tubbs, two detectives working undercover in Miami. The show, which ran for five seasons from 1984 to 1990, became known for its groundbreaking visual style, its hip needle drops, and the fashions worn by its characters, arguably revolutionizing the look of TV crime drama for decades to come.
After Mann moved into directing feature films with ‘The Last of the Mohicans,’ ‘Heat,’ and others, he rebooted ‘Miami Vice’ as a 2006 movie starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs. While not initially a hit with either critics or audiences, the film has since been reappraised and is now considered a cult classic.
What else is Michael B. Jordan working on?
Michael B. Jordan announces ‘Creed’ spin-off ‘Delphi’ at the Amazon Upfront on May 13th, 2025. Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Amazon
Part of the reason for Jordan’s deal not yet being closed is scheduling; the actor is busy directing and starring in his own new version of an older property –– ‘The Thomas Crown Affair.’
He’ll need time to finish editing that movie before he can truly commit to ‘Miami Vice.’
When will the new ‘Miami Vice’ be on our screens?
The movie is currently dated for August 6, 2027.
(L to R) Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
(Left) Director-Producer Joseph Kosinski attends a Press Conference in Mexico City on June 10th, 2025 for Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films ‘F1’. Photo Credit: Chino Lemus. Copyright: Chino Lemus 2022. (Right) Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
Preview:
Universal has dated the new ‘Miami Vice’ for 2027.
Joseph Kosinski is directing.
No casting has been announced yet.
First there was ‘Miami Vice’, the iconic 1980s detective drama. In 2006, Michael Mann brought us Movie Vice (okay, it was still just called ‘Miami Vice’ on the big screen, but go with us here).
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And, back in April, word landed that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘F1’ director Joseph Kosinski was going to take his own crack at the concept for Universal.
It would appear that the success of ‘F1’ ($624 million worldwide so far on an admittedly hefty budget) has spurred the studio to truly commit to Kosinski’s version, with the company handing down a 2027 release slot.
(L to R) Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.
‘Miami Vice’ began life in the early 1980s as a TV show created by ‘Hill Street Blues’ writer Anthony Yerkovich, after NBC president Brandon Tartikoff requested a program that combined the style of MTV with a cop series. The result, produced by Michael Mann, starred Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Rico Tubbs, two detectives working undercover in Miami. The show, which ran for five seasons from 1984 to 1990, became known for its groundbreaking visual style, its hip needle drops, and the fashions worn by its characters, arguably revolutionizing the look of TV crime drama for decades to come.
After Mann moved into directing feature films with ‘The Last of the Mohicans,’ ‘Heat,’ and others, he rebooted ‘Miami Vice’ as a 2006 movie starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs. While not initially a hit with either critics or audiences, the film has since been reappraised and is now considered a cult classic.
Filmmaker Kogonada’s first two films, ‘Columbus’ (2017) and ‘After Yang’ (2021) were, respectively, an unconventionally low-key romance built around architecture and a melancholic meditation on what it means to be human in a high-tech society. ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,’ his third feature and first production for a major Hollywood studio (Sony), attempts to combine whimsy and fantasy with themes of love, regret, and loss, only on a much bigger canvas.
But despite the presence of two of our most charismatic actors, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, the visually lovely film is let down by a treacly, frequently dull script (by Seth Reiss) that trades real emotions and characters for pre-programmed mannequins and faux sentimentality. It’s one of those movies that reveals all in its trailer (which has been playing for months) and offers nothing beyond its superficial gloss.
Robbie and Farrell play Sarah and David, two people who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and strike up an immediate attraction, despite both attempting to wave it off (“I’m afraid of hating you,” says Sarah) and insisting they’re not in the market, despite clearly being two lonely, somewhat lost people. What neither knows is that they both rented cars for the occasion from the same mysterious agency, located in a vast warehouse in a narrow alley in the nameless city in which they both live.
The film slides into the fantastical from the start with David’s visit to the agency, where he’s served by a foul-mouthed, German-accented, overly enthusiastic cashier (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and the more elderly, gruff mechanic (Kevin Kline), who rent him a long-discontinued 1994 Saturn SL with a special GPS that offers to take him – and Sarah – on the title trip, which they end up taking together after Sarah’s vehicle breaks down.
That trip takes David and Sarah to a series of doors in unusual places (like the middle of a forest), with each door leading to a moment in one or the other’s past that has defined their attitude toward life and love. In other words, the film offers up the kind of cheap Hollywood excuse for therapy and self-reflection which claims that if you can go back and confront that one thing that’s been hanging you up your whole life, everything else will sort itself out. Not only is that not true, but each major moment in both Sarah and David’s lives is the kind of trite cliché we’ve seen before: getting one last moment with a deceased parent, confronting a lost love, and so on.
The problem is that we don’t really know anything about either Sarah or David from the start, so they simply feel like automatons going through the motions as they take 109 minutes to arrive at the predetermined outcome of their journey. There’s no real emotion at play here, and no real chemistry either between the stars. When one finally confesses their love for the other, it seems almost comical – they literally just met a day or two before.
Kogonada has a great eye, and he and cinematographer Benjamin Loeb shoot the hell out of ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,’ bathing everything in warm hues and glowing light. But the heart of the movie is hollow, the plot points overly stylized and self-consciously theatrical (Sarah and David actually end up on an empty stage at one point, like they’ve stumbled into a Lars von Trier movie), and the needle drops become increasingly heavy-handed, culminating in ‘Let My Love Open the Door’ playing as someone literally opens a door.
In her first screen role since 2023’s ‘Barbie,’ a luminous Margot Robbie does the best she can with a role that is severely underwritten. Sarah keeps telling David that she’s horrible; she tells her mother that she’s bad with men; and yet we never get any real sense of why that is except for what she tells us. Farrell also looks terrific in the film (Kogonada is certainly kind to his actors) and, like his co-star, tries to wrestle some humanity out of his character, but can only go so far with the barely sketched template he’s got to work from.
The best work in the film undoubtedly comes from Waller-Bridge as the car rental agency’s cashier, who gleefully doles out the word ‘f**k’ like candy (hence the otherwise unnecessary R rating) and injects some real Terry Gilliam-like absurdity into the opening moments of the story. It’s too bad she disappears for most of the rest of it, since more of her and Kevin Kline as her straight man would liven up the proceedings considerably. Except for the two leads, none of the other characters even merit actual names.
Kogonada’s first two films were marked by their intimacy and even dream-like atmosphere, as well as their own visual acumen, but only the latter makes it into ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.’ The story is so predictable and undercooked, the themes so saccharine, and the characters so flat that this movie runs out of gas long before that Saturn SL ever has a chance to.
‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ receives a score of 40 out of 100.
What is the plot of ‘‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’’?
Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a fantastical adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their pasts and possibly get a chance to alter their futures.
Who is in the cast of ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’?
