Everyone Chastising Warner Bros. For Casting Ben Affleck As Batman Should Stop Right Now
Warner Bros. / Stringer, Getty ImagesWarner Bros. is receiving a lot of flak through social media and petitions for its casting choice of Ben Affleck as the next Batman.
We get it.
He's not Christian Bale. He's not Christopher Nolan's Batman.
He's not the actor who brought in nearly $2.5 billion in ticket sales for Warner Bros over the course of three films.
However, people's irate reactions to Warner Bros. choice for the next Caped Crusader sound awfully familiar.
Remember when Heath Ledger was first cast as Batman's arch-nemesis the Joker for Christopher Nolan's 2008 "The Dark Knight" sequel?Warner Bros.The Internet hated that decision.
After Jack Nicholson played the iconic role in 1989, no one seemed good enough to take on the role of the Clown Prince of Crime.
Ledger then immersed himself so extremely into the role, locking himself in his hotel room for weeks on end, according to his father.
The result was by far the best performance of the Joker. Before the film's 2008 release, Ledger died at 28 from an accidental prescription drug overdose. The actor went on to post humorously win a bittersweet Academy Award for his role as a chaos-creating, captivating Joker, the first for which any superhero film has ever received an award for its acting.