The film and entertainment industry continues to find ways to work with the new normal that the still raging global coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the world. Productions are beginning again, with Matt Reeves’s The Batman set to start next month.

Variety quotes insiders as saying that the movie will start shooting at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the United Kingdom this September. This was after the global coronavirus pandemic forced the production to stop last March.

There were already speculation that the movie was going to restart its production as crews had been seen building sets a month before. Should shooting for The Batman continue, it will join The Matrix 4 as another Warner Bros. production that has restarted in the midst of the pandemic.

Deadline quotes The Batman director Matt Reeves as saying that the unexpected pause to the production was something that he used to look back at what was shot and plan how to work with the “tone” he has found in the footage that has already been shot. Reeves also said that it allowed him to think of how to shoot the larger action sequences that are set to happen in the film.

The Batman star Robert Pattinson in the lead role, with other members of the cast being Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Paul Dano as the Riddler, Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon, Colin Farrell as the Penguin, and John Turturro as Carmine Falcone.

Other productions are also pushing through with production and announcing casting news, with the latest being that of Elizabeth Debicki being cast as Princess Diana in the final two seasons of The Crown.

The announcement of Debicki’s casting comes after Jonathan Pryce was announced to play the role of Prince Philip in the fifth and sixth season of The Crown. Announced earlier were Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II in the final seasons of the show and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret.

Jude Law was also recently announced to be in line to play Captain Hook in Disney’s live-action version of Peter Pan titled Peter Pan and Wendy. Starring alongside Law would be newcomer Alexander Molony and experienced child actor Ever Anderson.

Of course, the schedules of all these productions could still change as the global coronavirus pandemic still rages up to this day. According to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 dashboard, there are now 21,989,366 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world. Deaths caused by COVID-19 are now at 775,893 people.