Ben Affleck May Co-Star And Direct ‘Justice League’?!

Well, after yesterdays announcement that Joss Whedon would return to write and direct the sequel to The Avengers it looks like Warner Bros/DC may be getting ready to make their own big reveal. It appears that DC may be announcing a director soon for Justice Leauge and according to Variety, it seems that they already have someone that they are eyeing. And that someone is Ben Affleck.

Since guiding WB’s “The Town” to commercial success and critical acclaim from both sides of the camera, Affleck has ascended high on the studio’s list of filmmakers who can be trusted with prime properties. Thus far, Affleck is the only candidate who’s been sent Will Beall’s “Justice League” script, which the “Gangster Squad” scribe was hired to write last summer.

Warner Bros. could be working to move this project forward in order to get it out by 2015 in time to compete with the sequel to The Avengers. Especially with Man Of Steel rumored to start a shared DC Universe next year. The one big hesitation for Affleck here is that Justice League would put him out of circulation as a director for a few years. Affleck is not a shoe in for the job at  this point though yet. One of the sticking points to him directing the film is that he wants to be a part of the cast. He is expected to meet with Warner Brothers  executives in the coming days. This definitely wouldn’t be the first time a studio picked a director out of left field to handle a huge blockbuster comic book adaptation. Do I need to remind you about Christopher Nolan, Jon Favreau and Marc Webb?