So Ben Affleck is going to play Batman
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AUGUST 2013: "? Ben Affleck man. Christian Bale forever even though it would make no sense bringing him back considering the storyline of his Batman movies was finite."
MARCH 2014 (when we will approximately see Ben in costume for the first time): "? he looks amazing. JUST like Batman. Ok maybe I was wrong after all."
count on it!!
This is why nobody that works in media or entertainment takes most of the internet seriously.
and then of course Summer 2015 when the movie drops and all of a sudden he's the best batman ever and everyone can't wait for his solo movie and justice league movies. -
Swiffness! wrote: »TRILLip Brooks wrote: »Comic book nerds ain't gon be happy about this one
They're the same ones that freaked out when George Lucas floated Leonardo DiCaprio as Anakin back in the day. Smh......he woulda transmuted that ? dialogue into gold.
Damn, leo would've improved episode 2 and 3 enormously. Now im mad it didn't happen. -
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Affleck is a hell of a director, been saying this for the longest (even when people here were giving me ? for saying Argo would get the Oscar nom...yup I ain't forgot lol). But he needs to stay BEHIND the camera.
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lol, these honest trailors from screen junkies on YouTube are ? hilarious. check out Batman and Robin
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GIGLI WASN'T TEN YEARS AGO THO....
OOOOOH...? BUURRRRNNNN!!!
Gigli Release date(s)
August 1, 2003
Today is August 25 2013
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Well, at least Ben Affleck won't say some over the top ? like "you know what, I think Batman should be a bi-sexual" like that ? English McMuffin that's currently playing Spider-Man.....? need to relax....
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i didn't think Batman forever was that bad....maybe it was cuz my oldest sister took me to the movies to watch it and it was my 1st time so it was a fond memory.....idk
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IamNumberOne wrote: »i didn't think Batman forever was that bad....maybe it was cuz my oldest sister took me to the movies to watch it and it was my 1st time so it was a fond memory.....idk
it wasnt. KIlmer did ok, and Jim Carrey was a lot of fun too. TLJ played Two Face as a Joker, which was its biggest mistake. -
anyways heres a mock up of affleck in batman mask
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CottonCitySlim wrote: »Heath ledger as joker
Anne Hathaway as cat women
I think people should just wait and see, sometimes the wrong choice could turn out being the best for those roles
people's beef with anne hathaway & heath ledger wasn't with them being incapable tho it was just that people couldn't see them playing those roles.
it's a little bit of that for ben affleck, but it's moreso cuz he's just not a good actor so there's a much higher probability that he'll ? up. -
Snyder approached Affleck months ago, reports THR. Affleck would not take on this role unless he had some say in how this script turns out. He will have a strong hand at Warner Bros., which backed him on "The Town" and the Oscar-winning "Argo" and is invested in telling the town he's sticking around the studio. Affleck signed for multiple pictures. If this works out he'll have a major franchise to play with for years ahead. And a major studio where he can hang his hat, as his hero Clint Eastwood has done for decades.
Affleck tends to do better as an actor in his own pictures--which are often smarter than average studio fare. He shared a screenwriting Oscar with Matt Damon, after all, for "Good Will Hunting." The irony: Affleck turned down directing "Man of Steel." And did fine as George Reeves, TV's Superman, in little-seen "Hollywoodland." The LAT looks at which of his past roles prepared him for this one.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/be-affleck-is-the-new-batman-in-snyders-superman-batman -
IamNumberOne wrote: »i didn't think Batman forever was that bad....maybe it was cuz my oldest sister took me to the movies to watch it and it was my 1st time so it was a fond memory.....idk
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http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/08/25/ben-afflecks-batman-vs-superman-schedule
Ben Affleck's Batman vs. Superman Schedule
Oscar winner reportedly signed for multiple movies.
Better get used to the new big screen Batman Ben Affleck because it sounds like he's going to be around for awhile.
"Sources say that Affleck has been signed for multiple movies, should sequels continue to proliferate. The talks were so secretive that many Warners execs and most WME agents remained unaware of their existence," claims The Hollywood Reporter. Talks with Affleck began earlier this year when director Zack Snyder checked Affleck's interest. Early talks circled around story and character.
THR says Affleck will shoot David Fincher's Gone Girl this September through February before segueing to shoot Man of Steel 2/Superman vs. Batman from February through August 2014. The superhero pic will reportedly lens in Toronto.
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I still can't get on board with this ? .
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It's going to be a while before we see a trailer lol.
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? can never go right...either actors/actresses drop out...or lead characters end up dying(Spartacus/Andy Whitfield and Joker/Heath Ledger)
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7 Batman Films That Didn’t Make the Cut
By Thomas Mentel August 26, 2013 http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/7-batman-films-that-didnt-make-the-cut.html/?ref=YF
While the news that Ben Affleck will play Batman sent the Internet into a frenzy last week, the one thing his hiring does do is finally put to rest more than a decade of uncertainty revolving around the Batman property.
Sure, Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is a wonder to behold, but the problem has always been Nolan’s insistence that there would be no crossover comic characters in his films. With Warner Bros.’ (NYSE:TWX) hiring of Affleck as Batman, the character is now free to go where he wants.
But before the endless debate over whether Affleck is the right actor to don the cape, it’s as good a time as ever to discuss the various Batman projects that have almost come into existence over the course of nearly two decades. For the first time in over fifteen years, the uncertainty over the direction of Batman — and Superman — seem to be set for the foreseeable future. But it definitely wasn’t always like that.
Come take a look at seven Batman projects that almost came to be, from the earliest to most recent, after the jump.
Tim Burton’s Batman Forever (1995)
Tim Burton had originally been slated to take on Batman Forever, but the performance and reception of Batman Returns caused Warner Bros. to boot him from the project and later bring in Joel Schumacher — a decision the studio would love to forget. Batman Returns only made $266 million compared to Batman’s $411 million, while parents were uncomfortable with both the film’s violence an sexuality. Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer would have returned, but both ended up leaving when Burton was released.
In Burton’s version of Batman Forever, which apparently never reached the script stage, the Riddler would have still been the main villain and Robin Williams was reportedly on track to play the role — shaved and with question mark on his head no less.
Two-Face was rumored to play a secondary villain, as Billy Dee Williams had played Harvey Dent in Batman, and early versions of the Batman Returns script show Dent being electrocuted towards the end of the film, which would have seemingly fed into his role in the third film.
The strangest hypothetical in this version of Batman Forever? Apparently Marlon Wayans had actually screen-tested for the role of Robin and was later replaced by Chris O’Donnell. Chances are, with Burton’s help, it would have ended up better.
Batman Triumphant (1999)
Before talking about Batman Triumphant, it’s important to talk about what happened in the years after Tim Burton was booted off Batman Returns. While Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever performed fairly well, making $336 million, Batman and Robin, released in 1997, was an absolute train wreck, making only $238 million on a $125 million budget. The backlash and poor box office performance of the film put the Batman franchise on hold for almost a decade at Warner Bros.
Up until Batman and Robin had been released, the studio had been planning another Batman film, entitled Batman Triumphant, in which director Schumacher was slated to return along with the main cast of the previous film. While Schumacher wanted to do a darker film based upon the well-known Frank Miller comic The Dark Knight Returns, the studio wanted the film to be marketable, remembering all too well the problems they ran into with Tim Burton’s Batman Returns.
Before Batman Triumphant was shut down in the aftermath of Batman and Robin, the film was set to star Nicolas Cage as Scarecrow and a rumored Madonna as Harley Quinn, playing Joker’s daughter in this version of events. The film also might have had Jack Nicholson returning to Batman during a dream sequence likely brought on by Scarecrow’s fear gas. Not necessarily the worst sounding Batman film by any means, but who knows what the film might have been like given the direction the series had been going.
The Dark Knight Returns (1999)
Despite the failure of Batman and Robin, Warner Bros. was still discussing plans for a new movie with Joel Schumacher in 1999 and the studio at least entertained the idea of adapting Frank Miller’s famous The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel.
The Dark Knight Returns tells the story of a 55-year-old Bruce Wayne who returns from retirement to fight crime, encountering opposition from both police and a U.S. government holding the leash to Superman. Some of the villains that show up in the comic include Two-Face, the Joker, and Selina Kyle.
Both Michael Keaton and Clint Eastwood were rumored for the lead role of an older Bruce Wayne/Batman, but Warner Bros. balked at the dark threads present in the graphic novel, feeling that such a film wouldn’t be marketable. Though no film came of that particular comic, an animated movie was made in recent years. -
^ whoever wrote that article is grossly misinformed.
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Batman: Year One (2000)
At this point, director Joel Schumacher had been bounced around from project to project as Warner Bros. seemingly couldn’t make their mind up on the direction of the series. After another potential Batman film – Batman: DarKnight (that “K” is not a typo), involving the Scarecrow and Man-Bat — fizzled out, Warner sets its sights on another Batman graphic novel: Batman Year One.
With a story-line similar to Batman Begins, Schumacher pushed for a prequel to Tim Burton’s Batman using the graphic novel Batman Year One as a last push to get a Batman film made. While the studios were fond of the idea — they’d later try another version of Year One before settling on Batman Begins — Warner was ready to push Schumacher out the door, to the delight of Batman fans. Similar to the previous film concept, the comic version of Batman Year One was also adapted into an animated movie.
Darren Aronofsky’s Batman: Year One (2002)
With Schumacher pushed out and Warner Bros. still keen on the idea of Year One, the studio picked a young Darren Aronofsky to helm Batman: Year One following the success of his most recent film: Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky worked closely with graphic novelist Frank Miller to create what is likely the most radical Batman script ever written.
While Aronofsky and Miller apparently didn’t work on the concept art shown above, it reportedly comes from Warner and depicts a general direction of the film (check out more at Slash Film).
The big changes with Aronofsky’s Batman: Year One begin with the fact that Bruce Wayne does not have the benefit of wealth when his parents are murdered. The planned narrative of the film had been likened to Taxi Driver in which Bruce would slowly become a blood-thirsty superhero meting out increasingly violent justice. The script also had Selena Kyle as a black prostitute who decides to pursue justice after witnessing Batman’s acts and a Gordon character based off of ? Harry.
“My pitch was Death Wish or The French Connection meets Batman. In Year One, Gordon was kind of like Serpico, and Batman was kind of like Travis Bickle,” he explains in an excerpt from the book Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? written by David Hughes.
The synopsis of the film was as follows, according to the book: “Young Bruce Wayne is found in the street after his parents’ murder, and taken in by ‘Big Al’, who runs an auto repair shop with his son, ‘Little Al’. Driven by a desire for vengeance towards a manifest destiny of which he is only dimly aware, young Bruce (of deliberately indeterminate age) toils day and night in the shop, watching the comings and goings of hookers, johns, pimps and corrupt cops at a sleazy East End cathouse across the street, while chain-smoking detective James Gordon struggles with the corruption he finds endemic among Gotham City police officers of all ranks.”
While the concept is interesting to say the least, Warner Bros. ultimately passed on the project, although Aronofsky and Miller want to convert it into a graphic novel in the future.
Batman vs. Superman (2004)
When Warner passed on Aronofsky’s borderline insane Batman: Year One, it was because they had decided to go with the far more conventional Batman VS Superman idea that Andrew Kevin Walker, who you might know as the writer of Se7en, had pitched to them back in 2001. Batman & Robin screenwriter Akiva Goldsman was chosen to adapt the screenplay with director Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, The Perfect Storm) set to direct.
The plot reportedly revolved around the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent in the wake of Bruce’s fiancee being murdered by the Joker. Bruce’s violent nature begins to take over Batman as Superman is forced to help stop him, fighting somewhere along the way. Of course, they resolve their differences before taking down both the Joker and Lex Luthor.
This film appears to have been the closest to being made of everything on this list. Christian Bale and Josh Hartnett had been offered the roles of Batman and Superman, respectively, and principle photography was set to begin in 2003 with a 2004 release. However, director Peterson ended up leaving for Troy just as shoot dates were lined up, so Warner decided to scrap the project entirely and reboot — which was probably a good move by all involved, except for Peterson, who ended up directing a poorly received movie instead.
And now that the Man of Steel sequel is set to come out in 2015, Warner is thanking their lucky stars they decided to pass.
Justice League: Mortal (2009)
The most recent film that “almost was,” George Miller’s (Mad Max) Justice League: Mortal was being developed around the same time as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was coming out in theaters. If you remember the rumors, the series was planned to occur alongside Nolan’s universe without necessarily crossing over and was meant to go toe-to-toe with Marvel’s (NYSE:DIS) The Avengers.
While there was no real news regarding the story details, the film had supposedly already cast some of the main roles, including Adam Brody as The Flash, D.J. Cotrona as Superman, Common as Green Lantern, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Armie Hammer as Batman and Teresa Palmer as Talia Al Ghul. If you’re not exactly excited about those names, you’re not the only one. Apparently Miller specifically didn’t choose A-listers for the project, hoping for the actors to grow over the course of the series.
Justice League: Mortal fizzled out in 2010, to the relief of most comic fans, and with the recent news of a Justice League film in 2017, it appears that this specific property is in better hands than it has been for a long time. In fact, Hollywood analysts seem pretty confident that Ben Affleck’s entrance into the franchise as Batman sets him up as director of that Justice League film. Given Affleck’s recent track record as director, that’s probably the best situation Justice League has been in for over a decade.
SHMFH @ The Dark Knight Returns, not being "marketable," then again these are the same muthafuckas that being a flaming ? at the helm of the Batman franchanise. Y'all that I'm a fanboy purist, but that Aronofsky’s Batman: Year One (if properly executed,) had the potential for GOAT status, especially if they would've had the ? to do an R Rated movie. This project needs to eventually find it's way to DVD.
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YOU MOTHER ? OBVIOUSLY FORGOT WHO THE ? BEN AFFLECK IS.
or never watched Daredevil, Paycheck, GIGLI, Armageddon or pearl harbor...
Dude, I'm not being sarcastic or an ? , but are you a student of acting and film making? Seriously, because if you don't have an intermediate or advance knowledge of the art of acting, them I feel anybody's opinion on whether was right for this role is rather mute. People are just taking the bad films in his resume, (which unless you're James Dean,) every actor has some. I think if you're going to call the muthafucka out on his acting ability, then you have to take it in it's totality. Everybody keeps mentioning Affleck's wack ? , but they seem to omit Hollywoodland, The Town, and Argo, which everybody agrees are superior films.Those Batman with a boston accent jokes got old 2 hours after the announcement. Especially since the guy has used non-Boston accents in his movies before. Just shows how creatively inept the imagination of all the internet geeks are since they can't come up with anything else. Can't wait till the trailer comes out and they do a complete 180 and call him the best Batman ever. This is why I don't even frequent geek or nerd sites anymore outside of the SHH forums. ? hypocrites.
Co-sign, unless some G. I. J.O.E. Rise of Cobra casting decisions have been made, we as fanboys really shouldn't question casting decisions simply WE DON'T KNOW! We can tell you about pencilers, inkers, writers, or why Rob Liefeld sucks, but as far as explaining why a muthafucka is right for a particular acting role in a superhero or comic book related property, we're mainly basing our decision on looks. The main reason why I think that Ryan Gosling should play Barry Allen or Aquaman, (especially Aquaman,) is because he looks like those two characters.
You would think fanboys learned their lesson about judging a acting ability concerning The Joker. Ledger went so hard with the role, he's the definitive Joker and I fill bad for the next muthafucka who's going to play, how do you out top that, but I digress. Like Broddie said, all of the haters on going to do a 180 if it turns out that Affleck is best Batman ever.
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I think bruce wayne on some travis bickle ? would be dope
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Aronofsky has been turning his Batman story into an Elseworlds graphic novel for the past decade already and still we've seen nothing. I still hope that's being considered cause I really dug that script too. That ? had some serious ? and was at points even much more ambitious as an origin story than Batman Begins was. With all the police corruption and being strictly street leveled with no Scarecrow like characters like the Year One comic book story was.
It was truly the other end of the spectrum Batman & Robin was playing within though so the world may never have been ready for something that drastically different. They still needed a "supervillain" and some fantasy. Too bad so many fanboys were up in arms because of semantics despite the script having a good structure and believable characterizations.
This is why I don't like to associate myself with most fanboys despite being a bigger comic book geek than most of them. ? just don't comprehend the concept of an adaptation at all. They keep thinking the word adaptation means "direct translation" and because of that they help derail a lot of promising adaptations with their internet whining before they even get off the ground. People like that are no friends of mine. I prefer watching ballsy ? make it to the big screen then the same old ? I'm used to seeing regarding these characters. Provided the ballsy ? is interesting within itself of course (Ie: Batman Returns and this Year One script).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xy5C-0P0zs
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