Kevin Smith Wants Ben Affleck for The Dark Knight Returns

Anything is possible in this multiverse trend, but all evidence points to Ben Affleck’s cameo in The Flash being the last time the actor will don the Batman suit. Are you sure? Nothing can be 100% ruled out, especially for Affleck’s director and personal friend, Kevin Smith.

Smith has his own podcast, Fatman Beyond, and in the most recent episode, he talked about DC’s latest theatrical release, which doesn’t seem to be on the right track. The DC Universe is going in a new direction under James Gunn, and it seems that while Andy Muschietti has been confirmed to direct the next Dark Knight movie, the lead actor has yet to be announced, but what is certain is that it won’t be Affleck. Is the character over for him? Smith hopes not, saying he’d like to see him back in big comic book stories like The Dark Knight Returns, a story written by one of the giants of the medium, Frank Miller.

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Is Affleck disqualifying himself?

“Seeing Ben as Batfleck again was joyous – not only as Batfleck but as Bruce Wayne,” Smith says. “He said in a few interviews, he was like ‘Look man, I just figured out how to play this character and that character and now it’s all coming to an end. It’s kind of bittersweet. But he got that bit at the apple before it was all done because he said many times he’s never going to go back to Batman. You know, there’s a multiverse so we’ll see if that f*****g happens.”

“I know Ben loves The Dark Knight Returns in a big bad way,” Smith continues. “Like most of us do, but like... all through [filming] Chasing Amy he read that on the floor of my condo; he slept on the couch and s**t. And he was always like ‘Why can’t somebody do this as a f*****g movie? And you know, when Zack [Snyder] did BvS, he got damn close: he got to wear the outfit [Bat-Armor] and s**t, there were elements of Dark Knight Returns... So I can’t imagine if somebody backed up a money truck ten years from now, and said to a f*****g nearly sixty-year-old Ben Affleck ‘Do you want to do The Dark Knight Returns?’ He might say ‘Yeah,’ and that would be glorious. But for right now he had to put the cowl away, and he seems to have had a good time doing it.”

Source | Fatman Beyond Podcast