Movies Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill Are Officially Out as Batman & Superman

[skillzdadirecta]

Oh and The Flash Movie has been delayed...

 

Here's the part pertaining to Affleck and Cavill

 

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Following the box office disappointment of “Justice League,” Warner Bros. has been reevaluating its approach to making movies based on DC Comics characters. The studio is not currently moving forward with Batman and Superman movies featuring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, respectively. It is expected to recast the Dark Knight with a different actor for director Matt Reeves’ upcoming Batman solo outing. 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Cavill has the role he's always wanted: one where he will boink girls who look just this side of legal...maybe.

[Reputator]

[Brick]

We knew it was coming. Kind of feel bad for Affleck though since I think with the right script and director he could have pulled off a good older Bruce Wayne/Batman. 

[silentbob]

4 minutes ago, Brick said:

We knew it was coming. Kind of feel bad for Affleck though since I think with the right script and director he could have pulled off a good older Bruce Wayne/Batman. 

Maybe add a bit of makeup to age him and we get a Batman Beyond film

[sblfilms]

So are we now all on the same page that the DCEU over? Aquaman will be the last film produced in anyway under the regime that was trying to be build the DCEU. Everything else moving forward is effectively disconnected.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

4 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

So are we now all on the same page that the DCEU over? 

Did it even really start?

[Firewithin]

Batfleck.......we hardly knew you

[CitizenVectron]

They need to stop making movies for a year and make an actual plan, even if that plan is just to give solo movies to different people.

[sblfilms]

14 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

They need to stop making movies for a year and make an actual plan, even if that plan is just to give solo movies to different people.

 

That is the plan and has been for more than a year now.

[skillzdadirecta]

2 hours ago, sblfilms said:

So are we now all on the same page that the DCEU over? Aquaman will be the last film produced in anyway under the regime that was trying to be build the DCEU. Everything else moving forward is effectively disconnected.

 

What about Wonder Woman 2 and Shazam?

[sblfilms]

2 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

What about Wonder Woman 2 and Shazam?

 

Shazam I believe was green lit under the previous regime, but the entire production has been post DCEU unnoficial death.

 

WW2 is all post DCEU death.

[skillzdadirecta]

Be interesting to see how WB and DC continue the films they've already established as being part of the shared Universe while simultaneously killing off said universe  I fully expect them to fuck it up 

[Brick]

4 hours ago, silentbob said:

Maybe add a bit of makeup to age him and we get a Batman Beyond film

 

Nah just get Clint Eastwood to play old Bruce in a live action Batman Beyond film.

[Hurdyb1]

Damn WB.

[EternallDarkness]

2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Be interesting to see how WB and DC continue the films they've already established as being part of the shared Universe while simultaneously killing off said universe  I fully expect them to fuck it up 

 

that's what WB refers to as BUSINESS AS USUAL! 

[Ghost_MH]

1 hour ago, Brick said:

 

Nah just get Clint Eastwood to play old Bruce in a live action Batman Beyond film.

 

As I said in the other thread, the only correct option for old Bruce is Michael Keaton.

[Brick]

11 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

As I said in the other thread, the only correct option for old Bruce is Michael Keaton.

 

Not old enough. Plus doing that would make the film seem like some weird sequel to his films. 

[SaysWho?]

I remember from 2005 - 2008, I was watching disappointing Marvel sequels like X-Men: The Last Stand and Spider-Man 3, while Batman Begins released and then The Dark Knight tore the house down. I thought, "Geez, DC is so far ahead of Marvel right now."

 

10 years does a lot.

[Ghost_MH]

53 minutes ago, Brick said:

 

Not old enough. Plus doing that would make the film seem like some weird sequel to his films. 

 

1, he's pushing 70. 2, I'm totally OK with that. The Bruce in Batman Beyond should be old, but still look like he can throw a punch. He shouldn't look like he can barely stand for more than a few minutes.

[Hurdyb1]

2 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

1, he's pushing 70. 2, I'm totally OK with that. The Bruce in Batman Beyond should be old, but still look like he can throw a punch. He shouldn't look like he can barely stand for more than a few minutes.

This I agree with. Hell, I'd even be fine if he just did a short with a young guy being Terry talking about his experience as Batman.

[number305]

3 hours ago, Hurdyb1 said:

This I agree with. Hell, I'd even be fine if he just did a short with a young guy being Terry talking about his experience as Batman.

 

I say go really weird.  Pull in all the past live action batmen and do something like what they are doing with the spiderman multiverse movie.  Just have Batman fight some multidimensional being that brings all the batmen together.  It would be weird but a lot of fun.  Would have been even better if they would have done it when Adam West was alive.

[skillzdadirecta]

22 minutes ago, number305 said:

 

I say go really weird.  Pull in all the past live action batmen and do something like what they are doing with the spiderman multiverse movie.  Just have Batman fight some multidimensional being that brings all the batmen together.  It would be weird but a lot of fun.  Would have been even better if they would have done it when Adam West was alive.

 

I think WB/DC should do this anyway... I have whole pitch for a big screen Crisis movie featuring The DC movie characters and TV show characters in a multi-film massive story that would destroy  Infinity War  Too bad I'll never get to make it.

[Dre801]

Unfortunate.

 

I wanted at least Man of Steel 2(like MoS way more than WW, btw).

I liked Affleck's Batman.

[Hurdyb1]

4 hours ago, Dre801 said:

Unfortunate.

 

I wanted at least Man of Steel 2(like MoS way more than WW, btw).

I liked Affleck's Batman.

Yup

[Mercury33]

13 hours ago, Dre801 said:

Unfortunate.

 

I wanted at least Man of Steel 2(like MoS way more than WW, btw).

I liked Affleck's Batman.

 

I agree with all of this

[skillzdadirecta]

15 hours ago, Dre801 said:

Unfortunate.

 

I wanted at least Man of Steel 2(like MoS way more than WW, btw).

I liked Affleck's Batman.

 

I liked Man of Steel and Cavill as Superman in general. Affleck is good as Batman but Justice League showed me that he no longer had the desire to get in the kind of shape to fit in that suit... either that or his head got fatter 

 

But I'd make an argument for Affleck's Batman being the closest on screen interpretation we've had to the comic Batman to date.

[number305]

23 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

I think WB/DC should do this anyway... I have whole pitch for a big screen Crisis movie featuring The DC movie characters and TV show characters in a multi-film massive story that would destroy  Infinity War  Too bad I'll never get to make it.

I would totally watch your movie.

 

You could have classic superman too... I mean Brandon Ruth was basically playing the Reeves version of Superman.  

[Remarkableriots]

https://observer.com/2018/12/aquaman-jason-momoa-ben-affleck-henry-cavill-leaving-dceu/

[Kal-El814]

On 10/18/2018 at 2:41 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

But I'd make an argument for Affleck's Batman being the closest on screen interpretation we've had to the comic Batman to date.

But he kills people with guns...

[Remarkableriots]

On 10/17/2018 at 3:04 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

 

I think WB/DC should do this anyway... I have whole pitch for a big screen Crisis movie featuring The DC movie characters and TV show characters in a multi-film massive story that would destroy  Infinity War  Too bad I'll never get to make it.

I would like to see Dean Cain return as Superman!

[nublood]

I'm actually pretty stoked we get a new Batman. I think it needs to be a fresh face or virtually unknown actor to add to the mystery that is Batman.

[skillzdadirecta]

49 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

But he kills people with guns...

 

He was playing the Dark Knight Returns Batman... who used guns.

[5timechamp]

On 10/18/2018 at 1:41 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

 

But I'd make an argument for Affleck's Batman being the closest on screen interpretation we've had to the comic Batman to date.

 

How so exactly? Outside of a few great visuals and a fight scene?

[skillzdadirecta]

2 hours ago, 5timechamp said:

 

How so exactly? Outside of a few great visuals and a fight scene?

 

Keaton never really nailed the physicality of Batman... he was too short, couldn't turn his neck and his fight scenes were shit. Plus his Batman was a hybrid the Adam West campy Batman of the 60's and the modern age Batman post Dark Knight Returns and Year One. 

 

Bale's Batman was closer to the modern interpretation of Batman, but lacked the scientific and Detective skills of comic Batman. Did Bale's Batman really seem like a guy who planned ahead? 

 

Affleck's older, more world weary Batman was the closest to how Batman is portrayed in the comics currently. A paranoid loner who hopes for the best but plans for the worse, is scientifically gifted and a brilliant detective. Plus he moved and fought like... Batman.  That's what I'm talking about. NONE of the Batman on screen have been perfect. But Affleck's comes the closest to how he's portrayed in the current comics in my opinion despite the quality of the movies he's been in.

 

EDIT:  Amy Addams is done as Lois Lane and let's slip that "They are revamping the DCEU"