Speculations after the success of Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, where Ben Affleck donned the black cape as the new dark knight, favored the idea of a new solo Batman movie. We have made a list of all the things that you ought to know about the upcoming project.
- Ben Affleck and Warner Bros officially confirmed the Batman solo movie at Cinema Con in April.
- Ben Affleck has been working with Geoff Johns, DC’s Chief Creative Officer, and there are rumours of him writing a script for the movie.
- It’s official. Ben Affleck will be directing the new Batman Movie. Affleck also confirmed the name of the movie as “The Batman“.
- Affleck also said that the story of the upcoming movie will be an original story and it will borrow certain sub-plots and elements from the comic books.
- The story might involve Batman being locked up in Arkham Asylum, a place for all the bad-ass villains.
- Jared Leto‘s role as the Joker might be seen in this movie.
- There are speculations that more than one villain might take part in this fight.
- There has already been reports of another super villain from the DC Comics world, Deathstroke, the Terminator to be part of this movie. Affleck teased the fans with a video of the same, though it cannot be confirmed if the video was from the upcoming Justice League movie or the Batman movie.
- It has, now, been confirmed that Joe Manganiello of “True Blood” fame will be wearing the Deathstroke suit.
@credits: screengeek-net - The official release date for the movie has not been confirmed yet, but we might expect it to be released in late 2018.