Apparently WB Wanted Ben Affleck To Play Batman In JUSTICE LEAGUE

No indeed

They really don't know what they're doing with this, do they?

Didn't Affleck say that he and DC/WB did not have any meetings or negotiations about the JL movie.I think this Elmayimbe guy is just full of shit and hot air.

What about that guy from Person of Interest? He might be an ok Batman.

Did they not see Daredevil?

Just goes to show how out of touch execs are. That's an automatic NOT SEEING THAT CRAP!

I thought this was old news? And yeah, Karl Urban would be good.

they need michael fassbender and after daredevil ben affleck should never play a superhero

Seems like a Keaton-like move in the wrong direction...and if they insist on using Cavill and Reynolds, too, it certainly would be fail. I don't think I could have taken it seriously.

I could see it. Why aren't more older adult actrs cast in these roles anyway? Guys in their 30s and even 40s....it could work well.

This is proof that TJL movie will suck if this is the vision they have!

I don't think that Affleck would have made a very good Batman, I think Karl Urban would have been a better choice. My guess is that Justice League will eventually be made, the whole project seems terribly rushed to cash-in on the success of The Avengers to begin with. The WB needs to take their time like Marvel did and establish the world of a Justice League film before anything can be finalized.

I wonder just how horrible was Will Beall's JL script.It had to be terrible if DC/WB threw it away.

Gabe Macht for Bruce Wayne



Daniel Cudmore for Superman

Karl Urban would be awesome

Assuming Man of Steel is a hit,WB will not vacate the CBM market for 3 or more years waiting for a Justice League film to be ready. I see WB as having two choices.

1. They dust off something else they can polish off in time to go in front of the cameras for a 2015 release.

2.They start over from scratch and fill the 2015 void with something else.

If its door number one,the only real option would be to recycle the Justice League Mortal script with Max Lord as the villain. It was a film ready script and the word on it was good.I like it because Max Lord would make a better intro threat then Darkseid who could be saved for a sequel.

Max Lord,the OMACs and Checkmate would be an acceptable earth based global threat that would be different enough to avoid having a copy cat tag applied to it if
it came out along side The Avengers and it shouldn't be that hard to tweek the script
to allow film to be a spring board for The Batman reboot and the rest of the DC Cinematic universe. It also be a natural fit to bring in Amanda Waller from Green Lantern if they go with Hal over John and set up a Suicide Squad film down the line.

If they go with option two, they should go with a Man of Steel sequel since that is already being worked on with Wonder Woman (spinning out of a MoS cameo)on its heels for a holiday 2015 release.

Use the extra time to bring out the Batman reboot for summer 2016 with The Flash for november 2016 then bring out Justice League in 2017 a year before Avengers 3.

That way it can go against Amazing Spider-Man 3,the new X-Men film,Captain America 3 or Thor 3 instead of a full blown Avengers movie, and WB has a real chance to make Justice League a success.

Karl Urban has a weird head shape, and he always looks mad in the comical sense.

No

Hell yeah to Urban.

Contrary to what people say, I think WB is paying attention to this project if they think the script is horrible instead of going foward. I think Goyer should help rewrite the script or write a new one with Jonathan Nolan.

This movie will fail. It will fail so hard Marvel will pay for them to keep making movies. I don't want this, but this is just the way things have to be.

Dear, WB Executives...

Take your time and do this movie right, the audience will still be there when you do. Nobody wants another rushed, mess of a movie that only serves to damage the brand, and the superhero genre as a whole like Green Lantern did. The Justice League movie should not just be slapped together as a cash grab to capitalize on the success of The Avengers. It needs to be handled with the same kind of care and attention as The Lord of the Rings franchise, because that is what this is for the superhero genre. This is to big, and to important to fans to mess up.

Signed, The fans.

@MARVELPSYCHO79

There were no official negotiations or meetings in regard to Ben Affleck. He was approached and asked about it informally and expressed zero interest in doing it, so it never got to the point where any meetings needed to be scheduled, let alone getting to the negotiation phase.

Hahahhahahaha sure why not he could pull it off and dont judge a book by its cover people thought Bale wouldnt be good now look at him 10 years later same with Keaton i got one word and that is BATMAN................

Affleck would've made a great director for Justice League, if Argo and The Town has shown us anything about Affleck's abilities as a director, it is that Affleck can direct the shit out of an ensemble movie.

Sadly, Affleck is always the lead in his movies, and if WB approached him to be Batman...it means this is a Bat-centric movie. -_-...

And if WB is using Cavill, and if they can get Duncan Jones as the director with Goyer on the pen, then Batman should be Jake Gyllenhaal since that's who Goyer wanted for Batman in Nolan's Batman.

Jake Gyllenhaal already worked with Duncan Jones and his height, relative to Henry, is only an inch shorter.

Sam Mendes is directing the Skyfall sequel, he doesn't have time for JL.