Point blank, SWAT officers are unloading on the Batmobile. They aren’t pursuing it. They aren’t boxing it in. They’re shooting straight into the vehicle, on a snow-covered Glasgow street currently doubling for Gotham City.
Over the past several days, several videos of the sequence have spread across social media, filmed by fans watching from the edge of the set. The clips show the Batmobile roaring and cutting donuts across the fake snow. GCPD cruisers give chase. The GCPD encircles it. A SWAT vehicle slams into it.
And then the guns come out.
The truce from the first film is gone
That’s what separates this from the average set leak. The entire back half of Matt Reeves’ The Batman rested on a tense but functional partnership between Batman and the GCPD, held together by Lt. Jim Gordon. By the end of the film, Batman was hauling the mayor and other citizens out of the Riddler’s flood, and public sentiment was starting to swing in his favor.
Now his car is being shot at by the police. Every bit of goodwill he’d earned has vanished, and the sequel is casting him as an outlaw.
The open question is where Gordon fits into all of it. Nothing in the footage clarifies whether the split is institutional or personal, and no one attached to the production is saying.
The blonde in the passenger seat
The first user-shot videos of the Batmobile appeared online last week. In the time since, a mysterious blonde woman has been spotted riding shotgun in it. Scarlett Johansson? Nobody knows.
Onlookers at the set also picked up on a neat continuity touch: anti-drug advertisements on Gotham City cabs that reference “drops,” the fictional narcotic from the first movie.
What’s confirmed, and what’s just noise
For all the nonstop rumor-mongering online, The Batman: Part II is still officially wrapped in secrecy for the most part. Sebastian Stan might be playing Harvey Dent, or he might not. Colin Farrell’s Penguin will turn up in just a couple of scenes. The wintry setting has convinced fans that Mister Freeze must factor in somehow — precisely the sort of guesswork that fills the years still left before release.
That release lands on February 18, 2028. Which leaves the fan holding a phone on a freezing Glasgow street as, for now, this movie’s most reliable narrator.