"This is more in keeping with the canon of how Batman’s usually been portrayed"
"I really love the stuff we’ve done with Joss”
Gavin O'Connor to direct project based on "Boston Miracle"
Affleck will next be seen in Justice League on November 10
Just months after Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum left the picture
Director Gavin O’Connor, screenwriter Bill Dubuque and star Ben Affleck are in talks to return
Star Ben Affleck just completed a stint in rehab for alcohol addiction
The man behind Cloverfield, Let Me In and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will helm the DC Comics…
Affleck will of course still star, and he will remain a producer on the solo film
"An intermittently exciting film which can’t decide what it wants to be and ends up being nothing."
I keep getting, "WHERE'S THE F**KING BATMAN?"
"If it doesn’t come together in a way I think is really great I’m not going to do it.”
"We’re on the right track with that and everything is coming together..."
The Ben Affleck film opens in a limited release December 25
"There’s nothing I’d love more than to direct a standalone, iconic great Batman movie."
The Dennis Lehane adaptation arrives in 2017
The Ben Affleck film gets a limited theatrical debut on December 25, going wide on January 13
Ben Affleck stars in and directs the Dennis Lehane adaptation
"We're working on the script, the script is going well, I'm really excited about it"
Both actors star together in next month's The Accountant and have already filmed their Justice League scenes