Ben Affleck Movies ‘The Accountant’ And ‘Live By Night’ Delayed
Warner Bros. has been in theBen Affleckbusiness for years, and that relationship only deepened after Affleck’sArgowon the Best Picture Oscar. But there’s a business that seemingly trumps the Ben Affleck biz, and that’s the superhero game. And so while WB has two Affleck films on the slate for the coming months — the already-shotThe Accountant, and his next directorial effortLive By Night— the two films have been pushed back.
The supposition is that Warner Bros. is making room for more Batman, including the solo film to be co-written and directed by Affleck.
Varietyreports new dates for the two movies:The Accountant, directed byGavin O’Connorwith Affleck starring as an accountant who moonlights as an assassin, was going to be a January 2016 release. Now it will arrive on Octobert 7, 2016.Anna KendrickandJ.K. Simmonsco-star in the film written byBill Dubuque.
AndLive by Night, the Boston-set crime story based on aDennis Lehanenovel, had tentatively been slotted in for that October date. WithThe Accountantmoving back,Live By Nighthas been pushed to 2017. No specific release date is set for the movie at this point.
TheLive By Nightcast is slated to feature Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Elle Fanning, and the film is scheduled to shoot this November. Whether this release delay affects theLive By Nightshoot date, and therefore the cast, remains to be seen.
While there’s no official reason for the date changes, we’ve already seenLive By Nightdelayed once in order to make room in Affleck’s schedule for the DC films being assembled at Warner Bros. Since we know that he’s also directing and co-writing (with Geoff Johns) a solo Batman movie, with that script meant to be completed before theLive By Nightshoot, the suspicion is that these date changes will facilitate an accelerated assembly process forThe BatmanandJustice League.
We’ll get our first full taste of Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,directed by Zack Snyder, on July 23, 2025.Justice Leaguewill begin filming right around the same time.
