Ben Affleck has been doing a lot of press to promote The Accountant, his new thriller out next week. He’s been talking about his family quite a bit and judging from the comments on the last story not many of you care about that so I’m going to focus on his career, which I expect will also be met with a shrug. Affleck was asked for the title of his upcoming standalone Batman movie, which he has written and he will be directing and starring in. He says it will be called The Batman. Really?
“The movie I think is going to be called The Batman. At least that’s what we’re going with now. I might change it,” he said during a junket for The Accountant. “We’re working on the script. The script is going well. I’m really excited about it.”
All I can think of The Social Network when Mark Zuckerberg wanted to call Facebook “The Facebook.” That’s an underwhelming title although it’s possible Affleck is joking or will change his mind in the interim, as he said. It gives the blogs something to call the film for now. It likely doesn’t matter what it’s called or even how good it is (although it’s got to be better than BvS), it will still make bank. Affleck also revealed that the villain will be Deathstroke, played by Joe Manganiello. He said that picking Deathstroke as Batman’s nemesis was a choice based on his instinct and admiration of the character. There are probably plenty of other villains as well.
People has a new interview with Affleck in which he said that playing a man with autism helped open up a conversation with his kids about the disorder. He explained that “some of us see the world in different ways” and that “this condition makes you different but can also make special and that can be cool as well.” That’s actually quite wise and is a nice way to explain it so kids can understand. Director Gavin O’Connor said that they worked with representatives from Autism Speaks to ensure that they accurately portrayed the character. He said they were happy with the movie, but I wonder how that went, considering that the lead is also a murderer. (Or alternately he’s a vigilante. They say he has a “code,” which reminds me of Dexter.)
Oh and here’s a video of Ben learning that The Pats were getting trounced by The Bills. Sorry Ben!
We had to break the news of the Patriots’ loss to Ben Affleck yesterday. pic.twitter.com/CUeZLPMXKu
— SI Extra Mustard (@SI_ExtraMustard) October 3, 2016
This is Affleck on 9-6-16 at the airport. He looks much better lately.
Photos credit: Getty, PRPhotos and Pacific Coast News
Just what we need–another Batman movie.
I’ll always read a Ben story. No hate or shrugs here. Love the SI clip. So Boston. As for all of his comments on his kids lately, some people don’t perceive it as genuine (i.e. it’s PR for his movie), but I disagree. He’s not the one offering up the info. Most of it is the interviewers asking him pointed Qs about his kids just trying to lead him down a path to talk about the state of his marriage/separation.
Yeah, and if anything, he’s losing patience with that line of questioning. He’s not giving any more information than is polite
Yes almost seemed like he must have said to her – I’m not going there, I’m not discussing my relationship with Jen etc – because the tape was abruptly cut and restarted talking about the movie.
Ben has looked extremely uncomfortable discussing his kids (do you notice he does not refer to them by name like Jen does in interviews), and even more uncomfortable talking about his dynamic with Jen – wonder why after all these months he still is not comfortable with that. last press tour he had a canned answer for all the morning show hosts – where he gave the same line “we are putting the kids 1st etc” – to every question whether it answered the question or not.
There are clips of Ben on tumblr from the ET interview talking about introducing his kids to Taylor Swift and he’s not uncomfortable at all, very animated in fact. But I guess people are going to see what they want to see in these things.
Mr. Rice and I saw BvS a few weeks ago. He’s still angry with me for making him watch “absolute rubbish”.
I didn’t like the movie much either, but I did think Ben’s Batman was the best part. I blame the director, Zach Snyder. He ruined the Man of Steel movie, too…
LOL! Please, let this be true.
Yea BvS was terrible but Ben could pull a better movie out of his @$$ really. They should’ve let him take the reigns from the jump. Really the acting in the movie was fine the script was horrendous. That’s what you get for letting Synder take control of anything.
Very cool that the creators took the time to reach out to Autism Speaks to reflect an accurate portrayal. I always like when movies take that extra step
i’ll definitely sign up for The Batcountant, though….
In the batman movie with heath ledger he always refered to batman as “The Batman”, maybe a homage to that?
In the comics, he is referred to as “The Batman” quite often.
I don’t think he looks any better, I think his beard is just covering the weird part of his face. He still looks bloated af and those floppy titties haven’t gone anywhere.
Absolutely disgraceful how he uses his kids for press. He did this when promoting BvS, too (the story about dressing up as Batman for his son’s birthday party that he told about 100 times). There is a special place in hell for shameless people like him. PS. Hey Ben, no one is going to forget that you are a drunk loser who screwed your kids’ nanny. No amount of heartwarming I’m-such-a-great-dad anecdotes will ever erase that.
How about Bat, The Man?
That video — did SI have to feature her ass at the beginning? No. Did he have to sit there looking at his smartphone during their intro? No.
It wasn’t her intro. They hadn’t started filming the segment yet.
They filmed the Accountant on my block. My office was turned into a corner store. I fangirled over JK Simmons. Ben…not so much. Also saw Jon Bernathal, but didn’t recognize him with the poofy hair.
I LOL when I heard what the title would be. Will the “the” be in all caps, underlined, so we recognize he’s the best one ever!!!
You can’t constantly talk about your kids in the press (which generates interest in them) and then turn around and complain about the paparazzi attention. It would be very easy to refuse to talk about the kids for their privacy sake, but that wouldn’t help him repair his crap image now, would it? So he has to talk about Taylor Swift concerts and helping with homework and sell his kids’ private lives. Garner is just as guilty. Disgusting, hypocritical people.
Tell us more about those slave-owning ancestors that you have, Ben, and how you twisted the arm of an elderly black man to cover them up for you.
Take the beard away and that is still a weird, bloated, jowly face. His hairpiece is wandering into Travolta-level unnaturalness, too. He continues to look like crap.
He looks younger with the beard.
Bat-tits will never look good again.