Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton both reportedly filmed scenes for the delayed sequel that have been cut under James Gunn’s new DC Universe plans.
At almost exactly this time last year, news broke that Ben Affleck was coming back to Batman, reprising his role as the Caped Crusader in James Wan’s Aquaman 2, aka Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Affleck said he was done playing Batman in DC’s live-action movies all the way back in 2019 — he even had a send-off ceremony for his run as the character. Previously he played Bruce Wayne in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, then reprised the role in Justice League and cameoed in the David Ayer edition of Suicide Squad.
But Jason Momoa took to Instagram in 2022 to reveal that Affleck would return as Batman in the Aquaman sequel, then scheduled for release in March 2023. Numerous scheduling changes for both Aquaman 2 and The Flash messed with that plan, and now The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that after several rounds of reshoots, Batman has been cut from Aquaman 2 entirely.
