EXCLUSIVE: Here’s one for the Comic Con crowd to gnaw on. I’m told that Ben Affleck is teaming up with Geoff Johns to co-write a standalone Batman movie that Affleck will direct and star in after he completes his longstanding plan to helm his scripted adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel Live By Night. Johns has about as much comic cred as anybody around. He’s DC Comics’ chief creative officer and has written some of its best remembered comic book series including Green Lantern, Aquaman, Batman, Justice League Unlimited, The Flashand Superman. He has also written TV series superhero transfers Smallville, Arrowand The Flash, as well as the Supergirl project with Greg Berlanti for CBS.
My studio sources tell me that Affleck and Johns are well in synch and have more than found their rhythm. In fact, they are likely to turn in a script before the end of the summer, prior to Affleck going off to direct Live By Night in November. Affleck postponed that pic to star in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. The Batman movie would shoot after he finishes Live By Night, and the plot would reflect the Batman character that emerges after Batman V Superman and Justice League, the latter of which comes out November 17, 2017. DC and Warner Bros have set a long list of superhero movies that take the Marvel formula of interspersing characters from one film to the next, so it’s unclear when Affleck’s Batfilm will be slotted.
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have to see his batman preformence first in order to care about this one way or the other. Right niw it's a black hole of nothing.
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ReplyDeleteLet's see first how Affleck is as Batman, i just hope it's not another Green Lantern, Batman's my second favorite superhero and i don't want smudged if Affleck is horrible in the role.
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited about this, and for Affleck as Batman. I know there's every opportunity for this to go south, but I have no reason to doubt this will be anything but excellent. Affleck, nor any of the other cast members were the problem with Daredevil. It was the god awful plot, dialogue, and writing.
ReplyDeleteAffleck wasn't the problem with Daredevil. It was just a badly written film. So I think he'll be pretty excellent in the role, let's just hope the writing holds up. But I agree with you, it would suck to have Batman be ruined the way Daredevil was. But if it happens, it won't be Affleck's fault.
ReplyDeleteAnddd... Pass. No thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty much the only thing that could get me excited for more Batman films so soon after Nolan's. Affleck is an amazing director (Argo, Gone Baby Gone, The Town are all fantastic) a great writer (Good Will Hunting!) and a great actor with the right material (Hollywoodland, Gone Girl..). He's worked damn hard to turn his career around post-Gili / JLo and I don't think he'd be signing on for these unless he really felt the story warranted it. He's even said himself that Daredevil was a mess.
ReplyDeleteDC, take it slow my friend. Take it slow.
ReplyDeleteWe don't even know if your cinematic universe even works, for all we know BvS could perform under expectations the way Man of Steel did.
The box office of the Man of steel is bigger than 6 of the 8 solo movies from Marvel studios.
ReplyDeleteIf man of steel failed at the box office so 6 of the 8 films Marvel studios soils failed, Lmao!
Eeeehhh, how about you check the numbers yourself:
ReplyDeletefirst off: Man of Steel was expected to break the 1 Billion mark, it didn't. That's why Man of Steel 2 was canned and Batman thrown into the mix to help the next movie get stronger legs.
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success is always meassured at the budget vs. domestic gross. MoS had a budget of 225 million and had a domestic gross of 291 million. Wich alone is bad.
And overall Man of Steel has made merely 700 million while it was expected to beat Avengers 1.
Now to your Marvel comment:
MoS made more money (domestically) than The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America 1. All of these movies had a budget of roughly 150 million, wich is by far less than MoS so by meassuring their gross with their budget they were still a bigger success.
The sad truth is that WB/DC pumped in A LOT of money into MoS and expected it to beat Avengers in a heartbeat, it didn't, it underperformed dramatically and has to be considered a failure.
No idea why you brought in the Marvel vs. DC mentality here anyway.
If you don't believe me here are Man of Steels box office numbers http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=superman2012.htm
and a list of all of Marvels http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=avengers.htm
so before you act out, do some reading
Lol, You really don't understand what you're talking about, I'm out.
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Man of steel made more box office that 6 of 8 solo movies released by Marvel studios, is a true, you don't know anything about the box office.
ReplyDeleteEeeeh, buddy, trust me, I get how the BO works. I'm afraid you're hanging yourself up on your personal bias
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