The news that was announced over night, well for me anyway. I woke up to a Twitter feed full of shock, some anger and well many mixed feelings. The announcement that had been racking everyones minds since SDCC 2013, who will be playing Batman in Man of Steel 2? Well the announcement was made and Ben Affleck has been cast. This is to be an older Batman. A mature Batman, established crime fighter. I have tried desperately all day to not base any opinion on this from my overall thoughts on the only other superhero film I have seen Ben Affleck in, Daredevil, as that would not be fair. Ben Affleck now has an Oscar to his name for his award winning film Argo. I've read a lot of things on the internet along the lines of Affleck will only Direct a film if he is acting in it also, WB want him for Justice League so if he is Batman then that will work. The only real opinion I currently have is that Affleck is going to have a tough job pleasing an even tougher crowd, Nolan and Bale set the bar so very high with their Dark Knight trilogy that to take on the cowl so soon could really only be taken on by an older actor, one with experience. Lets not forget though that Nolan is involved in this film. I am going to reserve any criticism until the film is released, or maybe the trailer, the film now has a release date of 17/07/3015.
Man of Steel wasn't quite the film I expected and I am hoping that this may do something to rectify that. The quote during the original announcement was from Dark Knight Returns and after recently watching the animated Movie for the comic of the same title I find it hard to think they would chose to do a Live-Action one so soon. It may sound obscure but I actually feel the animated film was ten times better than Man of Steel. But heres to hoping Affleck will surprise his critics and please those who have been supporting an have faith.
