Ben Affleck Reportedly Open To Voicing Batman In Animation By the time The Flash arrives in November 2022, Ben Affleck will have surpassed Christian Bale for the amount of time spent as a live-action Batman. Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader was cast in September 2003 and remained in the role until The Dark Knight Rises was released in July 2012, while Zack Snyder’s version was announced to the world in August of 2013, with the Scarlet Speedster’s solo debut taking Affleck past the nine-year mark. That’s all the more impressive when you consider everything that’s happened in the meantime, which didn’t even include a standalone blockbuster of his own. Of course, there was backlash when Affleck was first confirmed as the hero given his history as tabloid fodder, but he proved many of the doubters wrong in