Ben Affleck Says Batman Movie Will Feature Original Story

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We now know a solo Batman movie is in the works written by Ben Affleck and Geoff Johns.

Back while promoting Batman Vs. Superman in March, Affleck was asked if he was directing a solo Batman movie, would he use the stories from Batman: The Killing Joke or Red Hood. Affleck replies he would do an original story, so it would be something new for the fans, but would borrow what he could from the comics.

Here's the blurb via Cines Argentinos.

"I think what I would do, what I probably would do, is in some ways what Zack did with this movie, which is to borrow certain things from the great comic books, but create an original story around it because I wouldn't want the fans to already know the story and be familiar, but I would borrow, steal, great things that have been done before in the comics."

We can obviously guess Affleck was writing the Batman movie at the time of being questioned, so his answer probably sheds light on his and Geoff Johns' direction for the movie, which is speculated to be titled The Batman.

Ben Affleck Says Batman Movie Will Feature Original Story

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Make it so you descendant of slave owners.

 

[MikelArteta]

i trust ben

 

[Spaceman Piff]

alfred: bruce, it's not your fault

bruce: i know

alfred: no, it's not your fault


bruce:

 

[TransJenner]

They've rebooted batman so many times

 

[Jello Biafra]

WB needs to tell Affleck that he will be making an adaptation of the Batman and Son story so they can intro Damian Wayne into their movie continuity as a set up for a Teen Titans movie.
Then let him do his own story with the sequel.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

WB needs to tell Affleck that he will be making an adaptation of the Batman and Son story so they can intro Damian Wayne into their movie continuity as a set up for a Teen Titans movie.
Then let him do his own story with the sequel.

They need to do tim drake

They're doing Damian in the animated flicks

Not trying to see 2 versions

 

[Supa cat]

No under the red hood

 

[detroitwalt]

So it will be post BvS Batman? That mean no killing joke or red hood unless it's through flashbacks? Is SS before or after BvS?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Is SS before or after BvS?

After

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Hopefully they do the story where Batman realizes his ancestors were slave owners and goes all out to cover it up

 

[theflyest]

I read the thread title as origin story initially. I was gonna be pissed.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

WB needs to tell Affleck that he will be making an adaptation of the Batman and Son story so they can intro Damian Wayne into their movie continuity as a set up for a Teen Titans movie.
Then let him do his own story with the sequel.

Watching Ben Affleck's Batman tell Damian not to kill people after shooting a bunch of people with his car and sentencing criminals to death via Bat Brand

Damian would pretty much have to be a mass murderer for Bruce to have any moral high ground over him.

I'd personally prefer them to introduce a Robin/Nightwing before they put Damian in that role.

 

[Hater]

Again?

 

[Jello Biafra]

Watching Ben Affleck's Batman tell Damian not to kill people after shooting a bunch of people with his car and sentencing criminals to death via Bat Brand

Damian would pretty much have to be a mass murderer for Bruce to have any moral high ground over him.

I'd personally prefer them to introduce a Robin/Nightwing before they put Damian in that role.

We already had a Robin (maybe more than one) based on what we saw in BvS. If Batfleck has been running around for 15 or so years then he has run through Grayson, Todd and maybe even Drake already.