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It remains pretty funny to us that James Gunn\u2014who has, over the course of 20 years, gone from \u201cTroma refugee making gross-out alien slug movies\u201d to \u201cCo-head of one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest IPs\u201d\u2014still has time for the little things. Like, say, personally hopping on social media<\/a> to try to smack down rumors<\/a> about movies that are being made under his watch, even though he presumably has people to do that now. For instance: Gunn seems genuinely annoyed that folks online are speculating that Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman Part II\u00a0<\/em>will feature an appearance by the Cape Crusaders\u2019 circus-skilled sidekick Robin, rumors that seem to have percolated up onto the internet out of, basically, nowhere.<\/p>\n Per\u00a0Variety<\/em><\/a>, Gunn hopped on Threads this weekend to remind people that, to the best of his knowledge, only six people on the planet have read the script for the film, which Reeves and co-author Mattson Tomlin finished back in late June<\/a>, so he\u2019d really appreciate it if the rest of us could knock it off with the very public guesswork. (One of the others gifted with the sacred knowledge is presumably Gunn\u2019s co-head at DC Studios, Peter Safran; he didn\u2019t specify the other two.) Gunn didn\u2019t call him out by name, but Patient Zero for the Robin rumors seems to have been Jeff Sneider\u2019s The Insneider\u00a0<\/em>newsletter<\/a>, a document that those of us who spend our days trying to filter out entertainment news bullshit on the internet typically know to treat like a flaming school bus barreling through an intersection: Something to keep tabs on, certainly, but nothing you want to follow too closely.<\/p>\n It is, honestly, kind of hard to imagine how you\u2019d incorporate Robin into a version of Gotham City as grounded as\u00a0The Batman<\/em><\/a>\u2018s in any case. Reeves made it clear in his first film that he likes keeping his heroes close to human\u2014there\u2019s a reason the \u201cfinal boss\u201d of The Batman\u00a0<\/em>is, like, two guys with shotguns and clear sightlines\u2014so having an acrobatic kid flipping around in the middle of fights feels pretty far off from the tone. Although Christopher Nolan flirted with a version of the character for the final movie of his Dark Knight\u00a0<\/em>trilogy\u2014revealing that Joseph Gordan Levitt\u2019s heroic cop had \u201cRobin\u201d as his unused first name\u2014the character hasn\u2019t appeared in a live-action movie since 1997\u2019s\u00a0Batman & Robin<\/em>. (He\u2019s been far more prominent in TV and animation, having last showed up in theaters in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies<\/em><\/a>. And, uh, puppetry, as DC Studios continues to work on Dynamic Duo<\/em><\/a>, an odd-sounding stop-motion\/animated film that will reportedly focus on the Dick Grayson and Jason Todd versions of the character.)<\/p>\n Anyway, Gunn\u2014a studio head, screenwriter, and director of one of the bigger movies of 2025\u2014was also bluntly playing goalie against the forces of superhero speculation: \u201cGuys please stop believing this nonsense,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI think six of us have read the script. No one knows anything about \u2018the Batman 2<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n