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Variety: Ben Affleck steps down as director of 'The Batman'

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LewieP

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I still love that Affleck's highest rotten tomatoes rated superhero movie is Daredevil.

I heard the Matt Reeves rumour and I could see that working.

In addition to my suggestion of Ron Howard, some other feasible names I've seen suggested are Neil Marshall, Joe Carnahan, Peter Berg and Gavin O'Connor.

Neil Marshall makes a lot of sense to me, given his extensive and quality TV work, where you are conforming to someone else's vision.

I think they'll avoid going for someone who didn't already work on stuff of similar scale, but it can't be a visionary, it has to be someone with no ego and who will just do the job. There's already Affleck's script, a meddling studio management, and Snyders shadow hanging over the entire thing.

Darren Arronofsky, Nicolas Winding Refn, David Fincher, or even Danny Boyle, Steven Soderbergh or Alfonso Cuarón would be too much of a creative risk, and I think they'd struggle to get directors of that ilk onboard without also offering a degree of creative control.
 

Lifeline

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What if Justice League is amazing and Batman in particular is done really well?

I loved watchmen, liked Man of Steel, hated Batman v Superman. If Justice League is good, I'll be okay with Snyder on Batman.
 

Daft_Cat

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It's incredible that Ben Affleck still has 2 Oscars.

Yeah. It's beyond fucked that an acclaimed writer/director won recognition for his writing and direction.

I'm sure Affleck's making the right call here. Especially after the back-to-back critical disappointments of BvS and Live By Night (the latter of which he also directed). If the project's a sinking ship, then why take the risk (and ultimately, the blame)?
 

Dice

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While Casey is a brilliant actor, I don't feel like I've seen Ben give a good performance in anything. He's a pretty good director, though.
 

denx

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I'd bet that the performance of Live By Night probably factored into this. After that bombed hard (REAL HARD) for Affleck, I'm sure Warner was less confident in giving him the director's chair.

The rumor mill says this is not the case. Despite Live By Night flopping, Warner was still all-in in Affleck directing Batman. Affleck stepping down seems to be a result of the amount of pressure he was under getting to him.

Honestly Affleck stepping down from the director's chair doesn't concern me. What is really concerning are the rumours that Affleck might be considering bailing from the role of Batman entirely.
 

Parch

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I still love that Affleck's highest rotten tomatoes rated superhero movie is Daredevil.
Amazing. Superhero movies really have their own force shields.

Holy crap was Daredevil ever a shitty movie. I just can't believe that the casting crew could sit down and watch that performance and actually say... "Yup, that's our Batman."
What? Did they watch the wrong movie?
 

Dabanton

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Joe Wright or Joe Carnahan would be good choices.

Synder would be awesome as well. I mean say what you want about BvS (and many of you have :p) the solo Batman parts were the best parts of the movie.

That sort of intensity in a whole movie would be amazing.
 
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