Brad Pitt has had a year with F1, which turned out to be a major critical and commercial success. The film was directed by Joseph Kosinski, and it featured Pitt as a former F1 driver returning to the game.He will be next seen in David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth as well as Heart of the Beast. Amid all of this, there’s been a rumor floating on the internet that Pitt might be in talks to star as a villain in the forthcoming The Batman 2.So let’s find out the details of this piece of news that is expected to excite Brad Pitt’s fans.Is Brad Pitt doing The Batman 2?Brad Pitt might be starring in the upcoming film The Batman 2. He is reportedly in talks to star as the antagonist, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham. The character is a doctor and the head of Arkham Asylum, where several criminally insane people are held. Jeremiah starts out as a normal character but slowly turns into a dark figure in the comic books. However, there’s no official confirmation yet. If this news turns out to be true, it will be Brad Pitt’s first tryst with the superhero genre.This news is coming merely a few weeks after it was announced that Scarlett Johansson might also join the cast of The Batman 2. Several people on the internet believe that she might be eyeing the role of Andrea Beaumont, aka Phantasm.The film will be a sequel to 2022’s The Batman, and it’s being directed by Matt Reeves, who also helmed the first one. Reeves has also penned the screenplay with Mattson Tomlin. Robert Pattinson will be reprising his role as the Caped Crusader. Other cast members include Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Andy Serkis, and Jeffrey Wright.In a September 2025 interview with Josh Horowitz, Reeves revealed that the villain of the sequel has “never really been done in a movie before.” He also said that he doesn’t want to lose Pattinson from the story."I never wanted to lose [Pattinson] at the center of these stories, and so that is really what we set our aim on."The first film was released in 2022 and became a major critical and commercial success. It also inspired a spin-off HBO series called The Penguin, where Farrell returned as the titular villain. The sequel was announced the same year the first film came out, but it went through several delays. Reeves announced in June 2025 that he had finished the script.It will be released on October 1, 2027.Stay tuned to Soap Central for more such stories.