Ben Affleck to return as Batman in the movie “The Flash”

Ben Affleck will put on the cape of Batman once again to play the masked superhero in the movie about the character of The Flash that the Argentine director Andy Muschietti is preparing.

Magazine Vanity Fair assured this Thursday that Affleck will thus join Michael Keaton, another actor who played Batman in the past, to jointly bring this superhero to life in a Warner Bros. film that will try to bring the idea of ​​the DC Comics “multiverse” to the big screen.

In this “multiverse”, different superheroes and villains can appear in different plots, worlds and temporal realities that coexist within a large narrative framework. Likewise, it allowed the authors of DC Comics to play with greater flexibility when it came to fiddling with the characters, who could appear in different narrative lines and under different attributes, without losing the illusion of coherence of the whole.

Thus, in this film about The Flash, who will star Ezra Miller, different versions of Batman will appear on the skin, at least for now, of Affleck and Keaton.

“Affleck’s Batman has a dichotomy that is very strong: his masculinity, because of his appearance and imposing figure (…), and that he is very vulnerable,” Muschietti said.

“It is a very important role for the emotional impact of the film. The interaction and relationship between Barry (The Flash) and Affleck’s Bruce Wayne (Batman) will bring an emotional level that we haven’t seen before. It’s Barry’s movie, it’s Barry’s story, but his characters are more related than we think, “added the director of” It “(2017) and” It Chapter Two “(2019).

Affleck played Batman in the tapes “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad” (both from 2016), and “Justice League” (2017), all of them belonging to the Warner Bros. film universe about the stories of DC Comics.

His work as Batman, in line with the lukewarm and half-hearted reception these three films aroused, was not particularly applauded., especially when compared to the success of filmmaker Christopher Nolan and actor Christian Bale in their triumphant trilogy “Batman Begins” (2005), “The Dark Knight” (2008), and “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012 ).

Affleck was scheduled to direct and star in the movie “The Batman”, but eventually gave up on this project.

The filmmaker Matt Reeves took the reins of this film that will be headed by Robert Pattinson with Zoë Kravitz, Colin Farrell and Paul Dano in his cast.

For his part, Michael Keaton, whose incorporation to the film of The Flash was known last June, gave life to the hero of Gotham in the films “Batman” (1989) and “Batman Returns” (1992) by Tim Burton.

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