{"id":2598,"date":"2016-04-13T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/warner-bros-confirms-it-ben-affleck-is-directing-a-standalone-batman-film\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:46:07","slug":"warner-bros-confirms-it-ben-affleck-is-directing-a-standalone-batman-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/warner-bros-confirms-it-ben-affleck-is-directing-a-standalone-batman-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. confirms it: Ben Affleck is directing a standalone 'Batman' film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LAS VEGAS \u2014 Tell me, Ben Affleck … do you direct comic-book movies? You WILL<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. is moving forward with a standalone Batman film with Affleck at the helm \u2014 if studio head Kevin Tsujihara is to be believed.<\/p>\n

During his opening remarks at the Warners’ presentation at Cinemacon, Tsujihara said the studio was excited to be going ahead with the film, which has long been rumored but never confirmed \u2014 as well as an Aquaman<\/i> movie by James Wan.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 17 infuriating, logic-defying plot holes in ‘Batman v Superman’<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Affleck hinted at the project \u2014 if obliquely \u2014 during a press conference last month for Batman v Superman, <\/i>acknowledging that he’d learned a lot from director Zack Snyder during the making of the film. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LAS VEGAS \u2014 Tell me, Ben Affleck … do you direct comic-book movies? You WILL.\u00a0 Warner Bros. is moving forward with a standalone Batman film with Affleck at the helm \u2014 if studio head Kevin Tsujihara is to be believed. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[880,1800,739,765,1799],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-batman","tag-ben-affleck","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-warner-brothers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}