{"id":9585,"date":"2013-08-23T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:38:16","slug":"ben-affleck-succeeds-christian-bale-as-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9585","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck succeeds Christian Bale as Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9587\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ben-affleck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9587\" alt=\"Ben Affleck\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ben-affleck-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ben-affleck-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ben-affleck.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Affleck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US actor Ben Affleck will replace Christian Bale in the next Batman film, Warner Bros. Pictures said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Affleck will appear in a Batman-Superman mega flick slated for release in 2015 that follows on the heels of this summer&#8217;s Superman hit &#8220;Man of Steel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bale, who played the title role in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Batman&#8221; trilogy, had left the doors wide open for a new successor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics&#8217; most enduringly popular super heroes, and Ben Affleck certainly fits that bill and then some,&#8221; said Warner Bros. president Greg Silverman in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film, which is not yet titled, will be directed by Zack Snyder, who was behind this summer&#8217;s &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; starring Henry Cavill of Britain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cavill will appear alongside Affleck in the 2015 film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Ben provides an interesting counter-balance to Henry&#8217;s Superman. He has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne,&#8221; Snyder said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; has earned some $650 million worldwide and $290 million in North America alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Affleck is no stranger to superheros, having played Matt Murdock in the 2003 flop &#8220;Daredevil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More notably, Affleck arrived at the pinnacle of Hollywood accomplishment in 2013 when his movie &#8220;Argo&#8221; won the Oscar for best film last February. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US actor Ben Affleck will replace Christian Bale in the next Batman film, Warner Bros. Pictures said. Affleck will appear in a Batman-Superman mega flick slated for release in 2015 that follows on the heels of this summer&#8217;s Superman hit &#8220;Man of Steel.&#8221; Bale, who played the title role in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Batman&#8221; trilogy, had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ben Affleck succeeds Christian Bale as Batman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,3],"tags":[605,5462,5465,5463,5464,1139],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-news","tag-batman","tag-ben-affleck","tag-christian-bale","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-dc-comics","tag-film"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ben-affleck.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}