Sources have confirmed that Ben Affleck will return in the coming as Batman Flash film that Warner Bros. brings into production. It’s going to be a comeo role. And, yes, Affleck will play the Dark Knight alongside Michael Keaton’s Batman from the 1989 Tim Burton movie, in what is paid for by Flash director Andy Muscietti as a “substantial” part. The Flash is scheduled for release on June 3, 2022. Ezra Miller, who played Flash Justice League, played the title role.
Despite being involved in early development on Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Affleck stepped away from reprising the role in that film in January 2019, as we first told you.
Affleck apparently got the script for The Flash at the end of last week and agreed to steer to the project.
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‘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, “says Muschietti. Vanity Fair who broke the news. ‘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 film’s emotional ships. That’s where the Affleck kicks in Batman. ”
Another reason mythologically-wise describes why Affleck’s Batman returns The Flash, and that is that Miller’s Flash considers him the original Dark Knight, the servant he fights alongside Justice League. That was necessary for Muschietti to have Affleck’s Batman as his starting point: “He is the baseline. He’s part of that unusual state before we jump into Barry’s adventure … There’s a celebrity there, ‘he continues. Vanity Fair.
Warner Bros. celebrates this Saturday a DC Fandome virtual confab for their superhero movies with panels for the new Flash film, Wonder Woman 1984, Aquaman, Shazam !, The Batman, Black Adam, Suicide Squad en Wonder Woman 1984.
