Warner Bros. Announces "Batman" Solo Film Starring Ben Affleck

[CBR News]

At CinemaCon, CEO Kevin Tsujihara confirmed that Warner Bros. is working with Ben Affleck to develop a standalone "Batman" film.


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[Aaron Stack]

...and in other news, water is wet. J/K, congrats. Would love to see a solo film.

[marvelprince]

...and in other news, water is wet. J/K, congrats. Would love to see a solo film.

Haha yeah no surprise here. Would love to see what he and Geoff cooked up though.

[kmeyers]

Let me guess the title, "The Death of Robin" or "Joker vs Batman(depending on how well Suicide Squad goes)."

[RobinFan4880]

Batman: Under the Red Hood, but more like the animated movie.

Jason is killed by Joker a decade ago. Ra'z Al'Ghul takes the body and resurrects Jason via the Lazerus Pit. Years later, Jason returns to Gotham to teach Batman a lesson and to kill the Joker. Probably include the Penguin rather than Black Mask. Definitely get to see Nightwing, a Robin and Batgirl.

It would be cool if Batman convinces Jason to not kill the Joker in this film, then in the next one, they do the Killing Joke.

[robreedwrites]

Looking forward to this. I didn't like some aspects of the character in BvS, but otherwise I thought Affleck nailed it (and I was a doubter). I'd love it if they threw in a curveball and made it something other than the Red Hood storyline.

[ChaoticScholar]

Let me guess the title, "The Death of Robin" or "Joker vs Batman(depending on how well Suicide Squad goes)."

"The Batman You Should Have Seen The First Time"

[Rogue Star]

This is like finding out you're going to die one day.

[kmeyers]

This is like finding out you're going to die one day.

To be fair, it's like finding out you're going to die sooner than you thought you were going to.

[Derek Metaltron]

Looking forward to this. I didn't like some aspects of the character in BvS, but otherwise I thought Affleck nailed it (and I was a doubter). I'd love it if they threw in a curveball and made it something other than the Red Hood storyline.

Ditto. Robin has never been well handled in live action before and if DC basically said that the only alternative to spunky in tights boy wonder is angsty not actually dead Red Hood I doubt we'll ever get him done justice. We need something solid with the Batman family - Nightwing, Barb's Batgirl, Tim or Damian's Robin, Batwoman or Huntress, mayyyybe Red Hood - and go with a solid story adaption. My choices being either Hush, the Court of Owls or No Man's Land.

[Cowtools]

So...more of the loser Batman who has to resort to killing people?
Or maybe a story of the younger Batman, and how he became a loser because he's so incompetent that he let his child sidekick be murdered?

Yaaaaaaaay. Fun for the whole family.

My only hope now is that they don't decide to drag in and also ruin some of my favourite characters like Batwoman and Batgirl.

[Prime]

More Batman...great...

[AndrewHuerta]

So...more of the loser Batman who has to resort to killing people?
Or maybe a story of the younger Batman, and how he became a loser because he's so incompetent that he let his child sidekick be murdered?

Yaaaaaaaay. Fun for the whole family.

My only hope now is that they don't decide to drag in and also ruin some of my favourite characters like Batwoman and Batgirl.

Batman vs Death: The Rise of Darkness

[CAPTAINIRELAND]

They could integrate both the 'under the hood' and 'son of batman' storylines since al ghul's and nightwing appear in both stories while introducing the audience to the film universe iteration of nanda parbat which ties into justice league dark. Granted if they wanted to do both storylines they need to be careful and not do a 'BvS' whereby the 'death of superman' was relegated to a few scenes and 'the dark night returns' in reverse occupied most of the screentime.

[baronvonblackheart]

I thought this was happening because Affleck had a "really cool idea" for a Batman movie. How does adapting an existing story qualify as having a really cool idea, or even having an idea at all?