MY BATMAN, YOUR SUPERMAN

How Ben Affleck Digs Into  Batman.

To all who’ve seen the leaked Batman vs Superman trailer:

Do you really care if Ben Affleck plays Batman?

Does it matter who plays Superman?

Super heroes make actors.

What did Tobey Maguire do before Spiderman? Well, lots of things. He was a child actor.

Which role identifies him: the part of ‘boy’ in Blossom, or Spiderman?

Ben Afflect was also a child actor who grew up. He doesn’t come to Batman trying to make a name, or improve his career.

He comes in carrying a load and strong enough to carry more. A super hero playing a Super Hero.

Is it enough?

As an actor Mr. Affleck’s work has been reviewed by everyone with a keyboard.

If a movie isn’t worth their time, they review his life.

Oh no, he won a screenwriting Academy Award twenty years ago then became a movie star.

Big Ben went from blockbuster staple to small film flopper, they said.

He dated up lady movie stars when he wasn’t ready, they said.

The scripts he was offered were barely warmed over pablum designed to make a few bucks and bury Affleck in the has-been aisle, they said.

And they were wrong.

He’s turned into the guy you’d want to be if you had to be a Hollywood movie star.

Wife, kids, acting, directing, Batman, and more.

In a world of take, take, take, Ben gives back with Project Greenlight.

Not only does he write, act, and direct, Ben Affleck gets Super Hero props for holding the door open for writers, actors, and directors looking for a break.

Greenlight means go in your car and in the pitch room. Greenlight means some green coming your way.

Talk to your art friends, your writer, actor, director friends. You do have a few, don’t you? No? So I’m not the only one lacking friends in high places?

Win Project Greenlight and you will.

Ben Afflect and Matt Damon are the names you know. Who else would you want to know?

With Ben finally free from taking movies to support a lifestyle of downward spirals, he can make the call himself. No movies he likes? He’ll write, act, and direct his own.

Is that power?

Check with Warren Beatty (Reds), and Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves.)

No other actor with a pedigree that includes big titles like The Writer, The Actor, or The Director, takes chances in roles like Ben. He’s seen the gravy train pass by and jumped on, then off.

Now he gets a chance to show a new Batman.

Batman vs Superman? How is that supposed to work? An emotionally damaged urban rich kid in Bruce Wayne vs an alien with super powers hailing from red sun planet?

Superman wipes Gotham City and Metropolis with Batman’s cape, but will he?

This has the feel of Titanic where you know how it ends, but you don’t know why it ends that way.

I’ll take a shot and say Superman sees a greater good in Batman and spares him.

You could take a shot and say Ben Affleck sees a greater good, too. Go ahead. You’d be right.

With so much on his plate, and so much coming up, how will Ben find the right project, the one he’ll be remembered for a hundred years from now?

You could say he’s already done it.

You could say Batman is the role of a lifetime.

Or you could wait for Ben Affleck to write, act, and direct one of the greatest WWII dramas never told, where intelligence and love descend into murderous revenge on evil. Where fire-bombing and atomic bombs play second fiddle to a need to change the world one person at a time.

On a stage as big as The War In The Pacific, the love story between two unlikely warriors will fit Ben’s schedule.

All he needs to do is act and direct.

I’ve already written this movie and it’s waiting for a green light from one of the greats.

Ben, it’s me, Dave. I got the script.