While Robert Pattinson waits to finally don his Batman suit again in The Batman Part 2, the acclaimed actor keeps stockpiling roles in feature-length projects to bide his time. Though his reported casting in Dune: Messiah adds to an increasingly busy schedule, fans shouldn't worry about this latest news causing further delays to the long-gestating The Batman sequel.

Per Deadline's Justin Kroll (via X), Pattinson is in talks for a leading role in Denis Villeneuve's Dune threequel, which looks set to begin principal photography this summer. Given Pattinson's potential commitments to Messiah, along with him being overseas filming Christopher Nolan's fantasy-action thriller, The Odyssey, fans instantly speculated whether this meant Part II could incur further delays, with its release date already pushed back twice. However, Kroll eased fan anxiety, insisting that the production schedules for Messiah and The Odyssey would allow him to shoot them "in reasonable time," and...