“The legend ended… but Gotham never forgets.”

A decade has passed since the Dark Knight vanished beneath the rubble, his legend sealed by sacrifice, his name whispered only in myth. Gotham has changed — polished on the surface, but beneath, the rot has only evolved. The peace Batman bought came with a hidden cost. Now, that bill is coming due.

In Shadow of the Heir, the quiet of Gotham is shattered by a series of precise and devastating strikes across the city’s institutions — the courts, the police, the press. Behind it all: a mysterious insurgent calling himself The Revenant. Masked, militant, and merciless, he seeks to destroy not just Gotham’s fragile order, but the memory of Batman itself. His war is not chaos, but correction — a cleansing of a city built on lies.

John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), once a streetwise cop and the man Bruce Wayne entrusted with the Batcave, has donned the mantle. But Gotham doesn’t need a symbol — it needs a savior. Untrained, untested, and burdened by legacy, Blake must confront the question: can anyone truly replace the Bat?

As unrest deepens, old allies return. Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), living under new identities across Europe, is drawn back to Gotham by visions of what she left behind — and who she could have become. Her reunion with Blake is cold, charged with regret, and the sting of a city that never allows happy endings.

But shadows deepen. A colossal new player enters the fray: Kharon (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) — a brutal enforcer with ties to Ra’s al Ghul’s original vision for the League of Shadows. Unlike Bane, Kharon doesn’t want to break Gotham — he wants to reshape it, testing whether it deserves to survive at all. Neither ally nor enemy, he becomes the axis on which all paths turn.

As John Blake races to stop The Revenant’s uprising, he uncovers buried truths about Bruce Wayne’s disappearance — and a final message left behind. What if Batman knew he’d be needed again? What if the cowl wasn’t an end… but a beginning?

From director Christopher Nolan, Shadow of the Heir is a haunting meditation on legacy, identity, and the cost of symbols. With a sweeping score by Hans Zimmer and cinematography that plunges into the very soul of Gotham, this isn’t just a sequel — it’s a reckoning.

Because in Gotham… the shadows remember. And sometimes, the mask chooses you.

🦇 Summer 2025. The legend returns… but not as you remember.
Only in theaters.