Oh, boy…
So you may know that there has been rumours about Ben Affleck wanting to leave the DC Cinematic Universe for a while now.
First he was leaving (here), then he denied it (here), then he was leaving again (here) and now he’s leaving again.
Yup, you read it right.
Now that Justice League is set to come out in a few short days, the next big outing for Batman in in Matt Reeves’ standalone movie – a movie which was at one stage set to star and be directed by Affeck himself.
However, now the actor is once again casting doubt on his even starring in it but rather that he’s looking for a way to leave the movies that make sense for the story/character (we have a theory about this here).
On the standalone movie, Affleck says it is: “something I’m contemplating.” Not the most reassuring thing to say.
On top of that, he added: “You don’t do it forever, so I want to find a graceful and cool way to segue out of it.”
No, obviously, Affleck could be talking about events years from now, but honestly we reckon there’s no way he’s not aware of the rumours of him leaving and he’s clearly fuelling the flames here and possibly preparing the fans for his standing down.
But why?
Well, clearly the response to Batman V Superman dented him, creating the whole Sadfleck debacle. Add to this the fact that Affleck is now 45 and probably isn’t interested in the gruelling training necessary to say in Batman-sized shape.
We honestly think that sooner of later we’re going to hear an announcement about the standalone Batman movie. It just mightn’t be the one we wanted.
Source: USA Today
Marc
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