Ben Affleck's New Batman Movie Title Underwhelms Fans But Promises A Deadly Supervillain

In a recent interview with the Associated Press while discussing his new film "The Accountant" Ben Affleck revealed the name of the latest Batman movie which less than enthused fans of the series.

"The movie I think is going to be called 'The Batman'. At least that's what we're going with right now," said Affleck.

The rather self-explanatory name unfortunately resulted in a number of people lampooning it.

Affleck however added that it is just a working name.

"I might change it. That's about all I got right now. We're working on the script, the script is going well, I'm really excited about it," said he.

Affleck is writing, directing and starring in the latest Batman movie which is a standalone one, slated tentatively for a 2018 release. It will have Joe Manganiello playing the role of Deathstroke, the supervillain.

Describing why bringing back Deathstroke for the movie was a great idea, Affleck said in an interview with Collider that he would be the right match to Batman.

"He's a great villain because-I just had an instinctive feeling that he would match up with him well. You know, I'm a big admirer of that character as well, especially in the New 52 the way that they did Deathstroke, and I thought that it could work," said Affleck.

Deathstroke starts off in the comics as Slade Wilson who joins the Army and learns a number of combat formats before signing up with a secret government program that gives him unstoppable powers. The villain in the new movie is going to older, forced from retirement to go up against Batman

Affleck first played the role of Bruce Wayne aka Batman in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,' which despite being panned by critics was a hit netting $873.3 million worldwide.

"It was a huge hit movie - more people went to see that than any movie I've ever made in my career. You know, it's the biggest hit of my career. And then it had a lot of editorial negativity," said Affleck.

He however said he understood why the critics hated it.

"It was interesting, that movie, because it was judged not necessarily on execution so much as [on] its tone. People seemed to want to have a lighter tone to the movie ... Tone isn't a qualitative thing - it's subjective, right? Some tones resonate with me that might not with you ... I loved it," said he