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Once upon a time, Ben Affleck was nan world’s Batman, and he had a scheme to prima successful astatine slightest 1 movie astir nan Caped Crusader. But aft appearing arsenic nan characteristic successful Justice League, things fell apart, and we ne'er sewage to spot Affleck’s Bruce Wayne communicative travel to life. But coming we person a small dainty successful nan shape of a portion of creation that was shared by nan film’s storyboard artist, Jay Oliva.
In ceremony of Batman Day connected Saturday, Oliva shared nan photograph below, which sees Batman facing disconnected against nan supervillainous DC characteristic Deathstroke.
Little has been revealed astir Affleck's The Batman. But it was believed that Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (Joe Manganiello) would get in Gotham City looking for revenge, with Zack Snyder's Justice League confirming the scheme was for Lex Luthor to show nan assassin who's beneath nan cape and cowl arsenic payback for being locked successful Arkham Asylum astatine nan extremity of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Oliva worked connected Affleck and Geoff Johns' The Batman, and he antecedently said of nan film:
"I can't really opportunity excessively overmuch different than it was f***ing awesome. It was nan best. It was amazing. From my understanding, location were a mates of drafts of it. When I was brought on, I don't cognize whether it was nan 2nd draught aliases something, but it was what Geoff Johns and Ben [Affleck] had shown me."
He went on:
“Ben's communicative was gonna screen thing that had ne'er really been covered successful comics but was building disconnected of storylines successful nan Batman mythos complete nan past 80 years and approaching it from a caller benignant of perspective. It was very clever and location were a batch of things astir it that I really loved that I wish that had travel to fruition. It was a really awesome task successful nan beginning. Ben had to measurement distant for individual reasons, and I wholly understood, but nan clip that I spent pinch Ben moving connected nan task was fantastic.”
It’s excessively bad that we ne'er sewage to spot Ben Affleck successful nan Batman characteristic movie he had successful mind. It sounds for illustration it would person been a bully time. Check retired nan portion of creation below, and fto america cognize what you think:
Happy BATMAN DAY Everyone! 🦇🦇🦇#BATMAN pic.twitter.com/eCE2G2s66c
— Jay Oliva (@jayoliva1) September 22, 2024
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