However, at the start of 2017, Ben Affleck dropped out of directing The Batman, and a few months later, War for the Planet of the Apes’ Matt Reeves was tapped for helming duties and to rewrite the story from scratch. Since then, there’s been no shortage of rumors and reports that claimed that a different actor would take over as Batman for this upcoming movie, and nearly two years later, this ‘will he, won’t he’ back-and-forth is finally over.
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