Ben Affleck Requested Script Changes to THE FLASH Before Agreeing to Play Batman Again

Yesterday, the huge news dropped that Ben Affleck will be back in the role of Batman for director Andy Muscietti’s The Flash. The director said that Batman has “a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie.”

According to TheWrap, Affleck's involvement in the film was contingent on some of the script notes he gave for the film. They explained:

"According to an insider with knowledge of the project, conversations with Affleck started in the last couple of months to pique his interest in joining The Flash. Before committing, Affleck had notes on the script which were addressed in the draft given to him last week, and he finally agreed to join the project in the last couple of days."

Affleck’s return was just as surprising as Michael Keaton returning as Batman as well. This movie seems to really be shaping up to be something interesting. Obviously, it’s going to have some fun playing with the multiverse, which makes me wonder what other big surprises we are in store for.

The multiverse refers to a shifting number of alternate universes that coexist within the larger reality depicted in DC comics. The multiverse was initially introduced to explain various contradictory changes that the DC characters experienced over decades, and it allows several different versions of the same characters to simultaneously exist and, occasionally, interact.

It’s going to be really cool to see Affleck and Keaton in this movie. Andy Muscietti is a talented filmmaker who knows how to tell a good story. I love what he did with Stephen King’s It, and I’m sure that he’ll do some awesome things with The Flash.

The Flash is set to hit theaters on June 2, 2022.