At Discovery Global Headquarters, the bat-signal has been turned on for the past several months using a digital billboard truck. Ben Affleck’s Batman fans continue to push towards Warner Bros and Discovery to get them to make Affleck’s undeveloped Batman movie. The “bat-signal” has been a long time coming from these Batman fans and they will continue to push for the release.
To help these fans Bulldog Mobile Billboards was involved by getting one of their led digital billboard trucks to say exactly what they wanted to say to Warner Bros.
The digital billboard was put up by the online petition group Change.org. The petition was created by a group of fans who want to take over Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ film universe.
The digital billboard reads “We request that you please make Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie!”
The digital billboard ad is asking Warner Bros and Saslav to hand over creative control to Ben Affleck. This would help make a movie that is key in the SnyderVerse. Fans also agree that this would be the best Batman movie ever created.
Affleck is a great choice to play Batman. He is talented, well-liked and just plain awesome. But the timing is terrible for Affleck, since they put up the campaign in 2021. The Batfleck movie will be released just as Warner Bros. introduced a new iteration of the Dark Knight in The Batman with Robert Pattinson.
Affleck’s casting is an opportunity to have Batman on screen without being tied to the DC Extended Universe. The director also is developing an adaptation of Joe Schreiber’s upcoming comic book, Black Rose, and has a film adaptation of the crime drama Cop Car set to go into production later this year.
The Batfleck campaign has been a wild ride from the beginning.
“We live in a society where the best Batman doesn’t have a solo movie,” one fan tweeted Sunday, hinting about the Snyder Cut release which helped Batfleck and Jared Leto’s Joker come in sync for Justice League Part 2. One other Twitter user said, “Because the best Batman ever made deserves his own trilogy. It’s time to #MakeTheBatfleckMovie.”
The ever-growing trend on Twitter, which currently stands at nearly 50,000 tweets, is just the latest round in the campaign to get Ben Affleck to make his never-made Batman movie. Since the release of the Snyder Cut, calls for Affleck to make a Batman movie have only grown louder.
Manganiello has said that Affleck’s version of the character will be “really cool, really dark, and really hard”. He also said that the unmade Batman movie was a “really dark story” in which Deathstroke was like a “shark or a horror movie villain that was dismantling Bruce’s life from the inside out”.
The digital billboard next to Discovery displays the potential cast of Affleck’s Batman movie, which includes Joe Manganiello as the assassin Deathstroke, Jeremy Irons as Alfred, J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, and more. It also displays the hashtag #MakeTheBatfleckMovie and #RestoreTheSnyderVerse.
The actor behind the Argo Oscar winner, Affleck, dropped out of the upcoming The Batman, which director Matt Reeves has altered into a Batverse reboot with Robert Pattinson as a younger caped fighter. Affleck retired his superhero persona as Batman and said that he didn’t think he could crack his version of The Batman. The actor told GQ that he lost his enthusiasm for acting after completing the theatrical version of Justice League, which was directed by Joss Whedon.
On a happier note for fans, Affleck will play the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in The Flash, scheduled to open in theaters on June 23, 2023.
