A few people and websites have already come across this picture and posted it proclaiming "Ben Affleck's Bat-suit Leak!!!" and was met with the proper amount of skepticism. Well don't buy the hype because the suit is a fake.
A self proclaimed "aspiring film maker" going by the twitter name @_MikeD photoshopped this photo to add a more Ben Affleck looking chin and changed the bat signal.
In addition to making the fake Batfleck suit he attempted to get Chris Hadwick, Kevin Smith (who has already seen Ben Affleck in the suit), and Ben Affleck himself to pass the story on by tweeting the picture to them.
Neither of the three gave him the satisfaction of at least telling him "No!" which is good for them. Seeing as the guy only has 24 twitter followers and a non-existent website,
creepygeeks.com, I'm surprised the picture has made it around at all. I guess we can blame Facebook and reddit for it. But that's me just speculating for no reason whatsoever. Luckily @MikeD came clean later today claiming to
"...see how far it would get...".
I don't know if any of the regular CBM viewers came across this today but I would hope you realized it for the fake it is.
As frequent contributors to this site know Kevin Smith admitted on his podcast, Hollywood Babble On, that
Superman vs Batman (or Batman vs Superman or World's Finest or whatever they want to call the
Man of Steel sequel) director
Zach Snyder showed him a cellphone pic of Ben Affleck in the new bat-suit and looks very Jim Lee inspired. And since that news came out I've personally been going back over some of Jim Lee's artwork and his art, to me, is what I picture in my head when I think of Batman, so I'm looking forward to seeing the new bat-suit. Unfortunately though we will still have to wait to see what it will look like. And seeing as what Zach and crew did with Superman's cape in
Man of Steel I'm doubly excited because no movie has ever made Batman's cape exciting looking.