So Ben Affleck on the set of #SuicideSquad #BatmanvSuperman pic.twitter.com/FgjMTH6fpx
— Lindsay (@Steele131) April 28, 2015
When Ben Affleck showed up to Toronto, the same place they’re currently shooting SUICIDE SQUAD, it was purported that he might be in town to shoot a cameo as Bruce Wayne/Batman. But then you look at those pics above of him ON SET, dressed and made up LIKE BRUCE WAYNE, and it seems all but confirmed: Bruce Wayne will almost certainly appear in SUICIDE SQUAD, most likely as a cameo.
Then you have this other rumor, with POSSIBLE SPOILERS, sourced at Latino Review:
Apparently, a flashback scene was written late into the pre-production game that will introduce Jared Leto’s Joker in BATMAN V. SUPERMAN. The scene would show his torture and murder of the second Robin, Jason Todd, which is still haunting Batsy at the time of BVS.
This would give us a little more time with The Clown Prince Of Crime, who it’s been said is not a crucial member of the SUICIDE SQUAD, and spends most of his time in the film behind bars (and occasionally sucking on black Uniballs, it seems like).
Batman and Joker go together like ham and tuna fish, as the man once said. He was a central villain in both the 1966 and 1989 flicks, plus MASK OF THE PHANTASM, and his presence was heavily alluded to in the epilogue of BATMAN BEGINS; everytime they want to get a new Batman on the big screen, they gotta get the Joker up there right beside him. It’s not unthinkable that they’d want to shoehorn him into the already massively overcrowded BATMAN V SUPERMAN, just to give Batfleck a little backstory and to set up DC’s arguably most popular supervillain for future films. Plus, it’ll give us some time with this new, surprisingly controversial incarnation of The Joker before he gets progressively more central as these DCU films continue to roll out.
As for Bruce Wayne in SUICIDE SQUAD, while it bums me out that he’ll be breaking the “no heroes” streak they previously had going, it’ll be nice to have some tangible connective tissue between it and the superhero-fronted films of the DCU. Just as long as David Ayer isn’t afraid to take things a little further (and darker) than those films will.
BATMAN V. SUPERMAN go at it like Pacquiao and Mayweather on March 25th, 2016, with the SUICIDE SQUAD amassing their razors and downers on August 5th, 2016.
