{"id":45933,"date":"2019-01-31T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=45933"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:01:36","slug":"warners-announces-date-batman-ben-affleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/31\/warners-announces-date-batman-ben-affleck\/","title":{"rendered":"Warners Announces Date For Next BATMAN Film, Affleck Will Not Be Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Batman-affleck-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Batman-affleck-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Batman-affleck-small.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Batman-affleck-small-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Batman<\/strong> will be returning to theaters on June 25, 2021. The Matt Reeves-directed project just had its release date announced by Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t be expecting Ben Affleck to be returning as the titular superhero. After playing Bruce Wayne\/Batman in <strong>Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice<\/strong> and <strong>Justice League<\/strong>, the actor is hanging up the cape as it is being reported that the new film will focus on the earlier years of the character as a superhero.<\/p>\n<p>Affleck himself had this to say on twitter &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBatman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBatman<\/a> in Summer 2021 and to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattreevesLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MattReevesLA<\/a> vision come to life. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GNgyJroMIO\">https:\/\/t.co\/GNgyJroMIO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenAffleck\/status\/1090772636206952448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Batman has been in development for some time with <strong>War For The Planet Of The Apes<\/strong> director Matt Reeves overseeing the project, which he has described as very noir and feature a number of the superhero&#8217;s rogues gallery of villains.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves elaborated in an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/passage-producer-netflixs-theatrical-plans-noir-batman-1180514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s very much a point of view-driven, noir Batman tale. It&#8217;s told very squarely on his shoulders, and I hope it&#8217;s going to be a story that will be thrilling but also emotional. It&#8217;s more Batman in his detective mode than we&#8217;ve seen in the films. The comics have a history of that. He&#8217;s supposed to be the world&#8217;s greatest detective, and that&#8217;s not necessarily been a part of what the movies have been. I&#8217;d love this to be one where when we go on that journey of tracking down the criminals and trying to solve a crime, it&#8217;s going to allow his character to have an arc so that he can go through a transformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But with this news that a younger actor will be taking over the role comes some questions. Does it mean that this film will be a prequel of sorts to what we have seen before in Warners&#8217; burgeoning DC COmics Extended Universe film franchise or is Warners just chucking away all attempts at having a series of films with tight, interconnected continuity and will allow this to be its own thing? Those answers will be forthcoming, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Matt Reeves-directed project will focus on an earlier point in the superhero&#8217;s career.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/31\/warners-announces-date-batman-ben-affleck\/\" title=\"Warners Announces Date For Next BATMAN Film, Affleck Will Not Be Returning\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[345,10485,7322],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ben-affleck","9":"tag-mat-reeves","10":"tag-the-batman"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45933"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=45933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}