Recently with E News, actor Ben Affleck took the time to discuss the title of his upcoming Batman movie while promoting The Accountant – and clarified some recent comments:
I just mentioned the other day, its been around for a long time that the movie, there is no Batman movie happening yet, we’re still trying to figure it out, get the script, the budget, and all that stuff, and someone said what are you calling it, and I had said like, back when we were doing, like, promoting another movie, I was like ‘well, we don’t have a name for it and now we’re just calling it The Batman or Batman movie or Batman’, and I said that and it was like ‘Affleck announces the title of his new’, and you know, you can’t, you can’t even touch it without it being, and they’re like ‘this title’s so boring’ and ‘this title sucks’.”
Similarly, co-star Anna Kendrick has said she’s experienced the same thing when mentioning the character Squirrel Girl.
Someone asked me this question once and I tried to give like the most innocuous answer that would just not turn into clickbait you know, for no other reason then why give somebody a headline, and I mentioned that my brother had turned me on to um, Squirrel Girl, and it became the biggest f****** thing. Like I could have said I was going to assassinate someone and it wouldn’t have been as big a deal.”
Although it’s still in development, the Batman movie has a release date for 2018, while Kendrick’s role as Squirrel Girl is still in talks.
Source: E! News