Ben Affleck will donate the cape and the cow one more time, back as Batman in Ezra Miller’s “The Flash” for Warner Bros.
Director Andy Muschietti revealed the news in an interview with Vanity Fair. He told the magazine that Affleck received the script last week and agreed this week to participate in the project. Affleck starred as the Caped Crusader in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2017’s “Justice League.”
“The Flash” will feature Miller’s Barry Allen in parallel dimensions and meet different versions of DC’s heroes. Michael Keaton, who played Batman / Bruce Wayne in the 1989 film Tim Burton and returned to collaborate with the director in Batman Returns in 1992, also appears in ‘The Flash’.
Affleck had planned to direct and star in a standalone Batman movie for Warner Bros., but stepped down from acting in 2017, handing that job over to Matt Reeves. He decided not to star in the film early last year, starring Robert Pattinson. Affleck has admitted that he left the film due to a drinking problem.
Muschietti, who directed the “It” movies for Warner Bros., praised Affleck’s take on Batman: “His Batman has a very strong dichotomy, which is his masculinity – because of the way he looks, and the “Impressive figure he has, and his jawline – but he’s also very vulnerable. He knows how to deliver from the inside, that vulnerability. He just needs a story that brings him that contrast, that balance.”
‘He’s a very substantial part of the film’s emotional impact. The interaction and relationship between Barry and Affleck’s Wayne will bring an emotional level we have never seen before, “said the director.” It’s Barry’s movie, it’s Barry’s story, but her characters are more related than we think “They lost both mothers to murder, and that’s one of the movie’s emotional ships. That’s where the Affleck kicks Batman.”
