Ben Affleck being cast as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's titular Dark Knight came as a huge surprise, and it turns out that even the actor was shocked to get the call. "My first reaction was, ‘Are you sure?’" he tells Entertainment Weekly. "At the time I was 40, 41, and had just finished Argo, and I felt like ‘This seems like a strange way to get to Batman.’ But Zack convinced me." Reiterating that the movie will play on the fact that this Caped Crusader is a little older, Affleck added that Bruce Wayne will still very much be keeping up the playboy facade from the comics (and Nolan's Batman movies). "He really keeps up the image of the playboy, actively. So you have more of a dichotomy which I thought was really fun, and a little sad, like the aging playboy."
However, it turns out that Affleck may have accepted the job for an even more surprising reason. While he's found great success with the likes of The Town and Argo, the filmmaker is now keen on helming a big budget superhero movie. "I thought if I was going to direct a movie like this, which I would like to do at some point, I need to have something of a refresher course of how these movies are done," the man who is rumoured to helm The Batman in a few years time teased. Here's hoping that's confirmed at Comic-Con next week, eh? Share your thoughts below.
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