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Originally Posted by CyberCubed
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That definitely won't be seeing the light of day in 2018, though. It's nowhere near even ready to be filmed... a start date isn't even being whispered about yet. Though the whole thing is a bit odd. The timeline of it:
Rush rush rush! Ben Affleck, will you helm and star in The Batman in time to make its mandated 2018 release???
I think so, if the script is good! We're working on it now with Geoff Johns and I'm feeling really great about it.
OK, it's been months. What's the update? We're getting close to the shoot date!
Eh, gonna just star in it now.
Matt Reeves! Welcome aboard The Batman as director! What are you doing, exactly?
Completely scrapping everything and starting over. It'll be filming when it's ready to and good.
Which begs the question of... how come Matt Reeves got to push everything back to his whim and Ben Affleck was forced to play within a certain start date when he was still tapped to direct? I don't know what was going on behind the scenes but if I was Ben, I'd be pretty pissed about that. If Ben had been granted carte blanche time-wise to make The Batman both a directorial and starring effort, he'd have been fine with that.