Raiders of The Lost Media - Ben Affleck's The Batman

Before Matt Reeves' The Batman is released, it's important to tell you about Ben Affleck's verison of the movie since that's how it all started.

Part One - What is Ben Affleck's The Batman?

Ben Affleck's The Batman is a cancelled comic book movie. It was based on the DC Comics' character Batman. The movie supposedly took inspiration from comic storylines such as Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Knightfall, and even would've taken elements from the 2009 action-adventure video game, Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Part Two - The Script

The plot goes Deathstroke wants to ruin Batman's life because his believes that Bruce Wayne is responsible for his son's death. Deathstroke would've planned a breakout for the inmates at Arkham Asylum, this would've tired out Batman and made him more vulnerable.

Many people came forward and would describe what was going to be in the movie. Such as the climax of having Batman and Deathstroke fighting in the streets, and Batgirl would've appeared and helped Bruce. It was also said the movie would've explored more of the death of Robin, which was hinted at all the way back in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Both Jay Oliva and Matt Reeves had two very different ways of describing Ben's script, but they both do the job of making people interested of what could've been.

Jay on his Twitter account would respond to someone's comment on Ben's script saying, "Hi Bill! The original Affleck script was the best Batman script I've ever read. Ben had a kick ass story and I believe that the audience and fans would have loved it".

And during an interview with Esquire Middle East, Matt Reeves would touch upon what the tone of the script was. He would say that the script took an "action-driven James Bond-ian approach".

Part Three - Why Didn't It Happen?

Ben Affleck himself would later explain the reason why the movie never happened was because a combination of things. His divorce from his wife Jennifer Garner, his alcohol problems, and then there was the horrible experience with Justice League when Joss Whedon and Warner Bros. were doing all sort of things to the movie. In matter of fact, the experience with the production of Justice League would actually go on to make Ben not enjoy playing the character like he did when Zack Snyder was in charge.

The final nail in the coffin was when Ben showed the script to a friend of his and his friend would later say "I think the script is good. I also think you'll drink yourself to death if you go through what you just went through [on Justice League] again".

Part Six - Will We Ever See It?

Now we've seen many actors return to their iconic roles. Mark Hamill came back for Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and recently Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield came back to their roles of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home. And despite his old age Harrison Ford is going to be Indiana Jones for the upcoming Indiana Jones 5. Along with many other examples of stars returning to their most famous roles.

And Ben did come back for reshoots for Zack Snyder's Justice League and will appear in The Flash. But those were just small instances so he didn't have much to do, which means there also wasn't that much pressure.

So if we have do truly get a Ben Affleck solo Batman flick it really only comes down to one person and one person only, Ben Affleck. Now I would love to see this film, Hell I even follow a Twitter account dedicated to this film, and have even used the hashtag #MakeTheBatfleckMovie.

But I would only want this movie if Ben Affleck wanted to return on his own free will. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. Only time will tell, so far now we can only dream.

So that's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, Mar 3rd. For that day I'll have something special planned for the 5th anniversary of my favorite comic book movie of 2017, Logan. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.