Ben Affleck really, truly loves playing Batman — a point the star took great pains to make on Saturday during Warner Bros.’ Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
His repeated, enthusiastic gushing about the role was surely intended to refute published reports from earlier this week that he and Warner Bros. are looking for a way to let him exit the role “gracefully.”
It’s still unknown how much truth there was to those reports; suffice to say it would present a huge problem if Affleck does end up leaving the live-action DC universe.
But with the reveal during the same panel that Warner has settled on “Flashpoint” as the title and concept for its upcoming movie about superhero The Flash, the studio may have landed the perfect solution to that problem should the need ever arise.