Well, that didn’t take long. The rumors had just surfaced that Matt Reeves wasn’t eyeballing Ben Affleck for his “The Batman” (or its possible trilogy), and that he had somebody else in mind. Well, now that name has surfaced.
According to John Campea, who is the source of all this stuff, Jake Gyllenhaal is the actor that Reeves wants wearing the cape and cowl. Gyllenhaal is a great actor, but just nine years younger than Affleck — what’s the major difference? I suppose any casting change allows Reeves to ditch following the DCEU storyline, which according to Campea, is exactly what the director wants to do. His film(s) will apparently be a standalone, apart from the main universe, which will probably be just fine with DC anyway, who are going down the path of non-continuity pics.
The deal for Gyllenhaal is reportedly far from close, though it’s apparently being discussed at Warner Bros. As for Affleck, Campea claims his decision to leave the DCEU was finalized earlier this year, though again, it’s just a rumor, and obviously, nothing formal has been announced. However, it’s easy to understand why Warner Bros. wouldn’t want an official announcement of Affleck’s exit eating up the press run for “Justice League” (though the actor was forced to address that chatter anyway).
Thoughts? Let us know below and listen to Campea’s podcast. [Screen Crush]
There are so many other (most likely better) movies Gyllenhaal could make in the time it would take to make another Batman series. I hope he declines.
I agree. He declined Suicide Squad so I’m hopeful
I DIG IT!
BIll the Cat, I can understand, but Batman…? Not so much.
He’s making a habbit of this, first he took over Aquaman and now Batman…he’ll be every DC character soon.
LOL…..WB really has no idea what it’s doing. Every month the plan changes for these DC movies. If they let Johns have Kevin Feige-like control over there DC movies, maybe things would get on track. I’ve barely heard anything about Johns since they supposedly put him in charge of the direction of these movies.
He’s a great actor, but I don’t know if I could see him as Batman.
We are going on our 6th batman character in just under 30 years ..
3rd spiderman character in under 17 years
At least we had hugh jackman as wolverine for long time and robert downey jr as tony stark for now