If you were excited to see the Boy Wonder join Matt Reeves' Batman universe following those recent reports of Robin's debut in The Batman 2, then we've got some bad news. Well, at least James Gunn has.

It is, honestly, kind of hard to imagine how you’d incorporate Robin into a version of Gotham City as grounded as The Batman ‘s in any case. Reeves made it clear in his first film that he likes keeping his heroes close to human—there’s a reason the “final boss” of The Batman is,

The DC Studios boss had previously tried to warn fans about The Batman Part 2 rumours, also writing on Threads last week: “Anything you’ve heard about that movie is made up or a guess. No one in the world knows anything about the concept for the story except four people.”