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Batman forever strives for a chance to set things right. That may finally happen with Ben Affleck’s version of the crimefighter.

 

The Argo director’s brooding Dark Knight is coming back for one more movie, with Affleck agreeing to return as Bruce Wayne in the upcoming big-screen version of The Flash, Vanity Fair has learned.

 

Portrayals of Batman always ignite furious debate among fans, and Affleck’s selection for the part continues to provoke intense discussion, even years after he first donned the cowl. Some love him; some disparage him. Some refused to see him in the role from the very beginning, while others consider him an underrated favorite who deserved more chances to play the role onscreen.

 

The Flash movie, which is planned for release in summer 2022, will feature fast-moving hyper-hero Barry Allen, played by Ezra Miller, breaking the bonds of physics to crash into various parallel dimensions, where he’ll encounter slightly different versions of DC’s classic heroes. It’s an adaptation of DC’s 2011 Flashpoint series of comic book crossovers, directed by Andy Muschietti, the filmmaker behind the recent adaptations of Stephen King’s It and It Chapter Two. 

 

“His Batman has a dichotomy that is very strong which is his masculinity—because of the way he looks, and the imposing figure that he has, and his jawline —but he’s also very vulnerable,” Muschietti said in an interview. “He knows how to deliver from the inside out, that vulnerability. He just needs a story that allows him to bring that contrast, that balance.”

 

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Anthony Breznican reports in Vanity Fair today that Ben Affleck will reprise his role as Batman in the upcoming Flash solo film project. Affleck’s appearance caught many — including me — off guard, due to repeated studio denials (and a bit of cynicism on our parts, let’s be honest) in the aftermath of so many negative reports about his experiences during the Justice League reshoots. But there may be even more exciting developments to the story, and it may involve HBO Max after all, too...

 

If confirmation of Affleck’s return in The Flash weren’t enough, there are rumors circulating that Affleck had second thoughts about moving on entirely from the role (partly thanks to the “Release the Snyder Cut” movement) and might be open to additional appearances, perhaps even a miniseries on HBO Max. We’ll see how it shakes out, but first thing’s first — Affleck is back in Flash.

 

Breznican’s article also confirms an earlier scoop by Umberto Gonzalez at The Wrap, which revealed Michael Keaton was reprising his version of Batman in The Flash. That announcement frankly put the nail in the coffin, in my mind, to the last chance Affleck might return for another bow in the cowl. The leaking of the Keaton news helped diminish the likelihood of the Affleck news leaking or being believed as readily, intentional or not. Well played, Warner.

 

Let me make a full mea culpa on disbelieving the earlier rumors, and for doubting the chances of Affleck’s return once Keaton was involved. Two great Batmen in one movie? Didn’t seem possible. But here we are, and now the rumors of a possible Affleck HBO Max series are more believable too — not just more so, but I hear new rumors today that plenty of folks at HBO Max would like to have a Batman miniseries or film project with Affleck.

 

I am not just happy to admit I was wrong about Affleck returning, I’m happy to be wrong, as I was obviously a huge fan of his Batman and regretted when it became apparent he wouldn’t write-direct his own solo project. Having that back on the table again, alongside Matt Reeves’ building his separate incredible Batman world, it’s a pretty good moment to be a Batfan.

 

The reveal of Affleck’s return suggests strongly that other rumors about The Flash and the multiverse are likely true as well. This would mean the film establishes a crossover between roughly three distinct DC worlds — the Snyderverse, the CW/DCU television/streaming universes, and the theatrical franchises. Crossover between these worlds and the ability to mix and match them into various forms, retaining the ability to cross them over again in the future, will shape a new future path for the larger DCEU across platforms and mediums and worlds.

 

We’ll hear plenty of details about all of this at DC FanDome, which now covers two different full days with content. The first is this Saturday, August 22nd, at DC FanDome: Hall of Heroes, and the second is Saturday, September 12th, at DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse. Be sure to check out the panel this Saturday at 11:15am titled “Multiverse 101,” there’s bound to be some new info about the nature of The Flash and the future of the DCEU there.

 

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Saw an interesting report about using this movie to create the DC Multiverse--would love to see each film series basically existing in its own universe, with some interactions, and culminating in Crisis on Infinite Earths in ~10 years or so. Mostly b/c I'm very, very desperate for Crisis to get adapted on the big screen, and think after Infinity War/Endgame it could definitely work.

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Barbara Muschietti, the producer of The Flash (and sister and longtime collaborator of the director), told Vanity Fair she had worried this might make him reluctant to return at all. “There have been some all sorts of stories and things he said himself about having a very hard time playing Batman, and it had been difficult for him,” she said. “I think it was more about a difficult time in his life. When we approached him, he’s now in a very different time in his life. He was very open to it, which was a bit of a surprise to us. It was a question mark.”

 

“We are all human and go through great times in our lives and terrible times in our lives,” she added. “Right now he’s in a place where he can actually enjoy being Batman.” Plus, he doesn't have to carry the entire movie. “It's a pivotal role, but at the same time it’s a fun part,” she said.

 

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It's great to see my favorite Batman come back, if only in a cameo.

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I thought that they were releasing footage for The Flash this weekend?

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art 2 of the DC FanDome virtual convention is officially underway, and fans are getting some epic behind-the-scenes details surrounding DC Comics' movies, TV shows, video games, and more. One project that has had a presence at both days of the event is the upcoming The Flash movie, which will see Ezra Miller finally get a solo adventure as the Scarlet Speedster. While we already know a handful of details surrounding the film - mainly, the fact that it will see the return of both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton's iterations of Batman - producer Barbara Muschietti provided some epic hints during one of FanDome's Fan Q&As.

 

"Well, I want you to go see it, so I'm not going to tell you a lot," Muschietti explained. "But what I will tell you is that it's a ride. It's going to be fun and exciting and there are a lot of DC characters in it. Flash is the superhero of this film because he is the bridge between all of these characters and timelines. And in a way, it restarts everything and doesn't forget anything."

 

These comments will surely be exciting to those who have been looking forward to the film, especially after years of speculation that it could be a quasi-reboot of the DC films canon, not unlike how Flashpoint was in the comics. If anything, it seems like Muschietti's comments might hint at the sort of embracing of the larger DC live-action multiverse.

 

"This movie is a bit of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that implies a unified universe where all the cinematic iterations that we’ve seen before are valid,” director Andy Muschietti said in an interview last month. “It’s inclusive in the sense that it is saying all that you’ve seen exists, and everything that you will see exists, in the same unified multiverse."

 

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It's deja vu as Crudup would rejoin a project he was associated with four years, and several directors and writers, ago.

Billy Crudup, fresh off his Emmy win for Apple’s The Morning Show, is in early negotiations to join Ezra Miller in The Flash, Warner Bros.' feature project based on the DC superhero.

 

“Rejoin” may be the better term here as Crudup has been associated with the long-gestating project since 2016. He was cast to play the father to Barry Allen, aka The Flash, by Rick Famuyiwa but that director departed in October of that year. By March 2018, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein were the helmers but left a year later. Andy Muschietti now sits in the director’s chair as the movie runs towards a shoot in London in 2021.  Crudup stayed on for a while but as the director's and writer's chairs shifted about, he eventually moved on. The actor, however, did play the part of Allen's father in one scene in 2017's  Justice League.

 

Crudup is now making a new deal for Flash, which is suddenly one of the hottest projects on the Warners lot, thanks for the bifecta of having Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck reprising fan-favorite incarnations of Bruce Wayne/Batman.

 

Kiersey Clemons was also hired to play a key role in Flash at the same time as Crudup but at this stage, it is unclear whether there is interest (on both sides) or availability for her to return.

 

The -script, whose latest draft was written by Christina Hodson, sees Flash go back in time to prevent the murder of his mother, an act that proves to have unintended consequences for his timeline.

 

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Other DC feature release date changes, largely production related: Andy Muschietti’s The Flash will go on Nov. 4, 2022 instead of June 3, 2022. 

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The Flash will go where the DC Extended Universe "hasn't gone before" when it races into the multiverse, director Andy Muschietti says in a lightning-quick update on the Ezra Miller-starring DC movie. The not-so-solo movie spinning out of Justice League sees super speedster Barry Allen (Miller) crossing over and crossing paths with the Batman (Michael Keaton) of another world and the Batman (Ben Affleck) of his world, who doubles as Flash's mentor and costume designer. After Miller's Flash crossed over into the television side of the DC Universe for an inter-dimensional meeting with Grant Gustin's scarlet speedster in The CW's The Flash, Muschietti teases a bigger trip back into the multiverse:

 

The Flash movie "will take you to a place where the DC Universe hasn't gone before, so it's very exciting," Muschietti said in a brief video aired during Warner Bros.' presentation at this year's virtual CCXP convention. "I can't wait to tell you more, but for now, I want to thank you for the support and for being such amazing fans."

 

The Mama and IT director previously described Flash as a "beautiful human story" grounded by the "emotional impact" of the interaction and relationship between Barry Allen and Affleck’s Bruce Wayne sometime after the events of Justice League.

 

"He's the baseline. He's part of that unaltered state before we jump into Barry's adventure. There's a familiarity there," Muschietti told Vanity Fair earlier this year. "This movie is a bit of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that implies a unified universe where all the cinematic iterations that we've seen before are valid. It's inclusive in the sense that it is saying all that you've seen exists, and everything that you will see exists, in the same unified multiverse."

 

During the virtual DC FanDome event over the summer, producer Barbara Muschietti described The Flash as "a ride" that's "going to be fun and exciting, and there are a lot of DC characters in it."

 

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