The praise keeps coming for Ben Affleck from his Hollywood colleagues.
Michael Keaton, the original silver screen Batman, recently voiced his approval for seeing the Academy Award winner don the cowl and cape.
"He's gonna be great!" said Keaton, according to Variety.com.
The original announcement of Affleck as Batman drew a tremendous amount of vitriol from fans across the web, but since then Hollywood professionals have come to endorse the casting decision.
Patton Oswalt was the first to come to Affleck's aid and published a lengthy statement on his Facebook page. "Ben brushed himself off, realized he'd kept his eyes open on the movies he'd done, and started directing. And he's become a damn good one," Oswalt wrote.
He continued, "A Batman portrayed by someone who's tasted humiliation and a reversal of all personal valences -- kind of like Grant Morrison's "Zen warrior" version of Batman, post-ARKHAM ASYLUM, who was, in the words of Superman...the most dangerous man on the planet?"
"Think for a second and admit that Ben Affleck is closer to THAT top-shelf iteration of The Dark Knight than pretty much anyone in Hollywood right now."
Then came Affleck's best friend Matt Damon.
"I think it will be great. It will be terrific. I know there are a lot of people grousing on the Internet. I just think it's kind of funny. You know, he's not playing King Lear. It's Batman! Certainly within his skill set," Damon told the Times of India.
The film is slated to shoot next year in Detroit and will be released in 2015.
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