Just as news arrived that Ben Affleck will begin production on Live By Night in November, the news is trumped by his new comic book alter-ego, Batman. Affleck will star in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as The Dark Knight and, as has been assumed, will be taking the reigns on a solo Batman outing after that.
Deadline reports Affleck will direct and, obviously star in, the new Batman film which he will co-write with Geoff Johns. Johns is best known as a comic book writer, but has gained popularity as of late writing for “Arrow” and “The Flash” and is also scripting Shazam! which will star Dwayne Johnson.
As of now there is no word on when exactly this solo feature will arrive as it wasn’t mentioned when Warner Bros. originally announced their DC universe slate of films last year, but I’m pretty sure they’ll find a way to slip it in there. In terms of timing, Deadline says the script, however, is already underway and they “are likely to turn in a script before the end of the summer”.
I’m sure this news was probably meant to be announced at Comic Con this weekend, but such is the age we live in.
