>>88816780>>88818406He's been saying it since at least October when he was on the press tour for the Accountant, and now he's saying it because he's on the press tour for Live By Night and people are still asking him questions about a movie that doesn't exist even in draft form.
>>88819047No? No date has been set. Nobody's ever announced anything official about it, just their intention to make one with him at some future point.
>>88819266They put Affleck and Johns on as writers knowing Affleck had two other movies to promote and JL to film and presumably fit his story around.
They knew he wouldn't have anything by now.
>>88819177The article references another article from the same site which in turn references a Variety article, and a Guardian article.
Both the Variety and Guardian articles were part of the Live By Night press tour, likely conducted in early December before LA shut down for the holidays. At no point in either is Affleck directly quoted saying he expects to start shooting, only that (in the Variety article) "We’re on the right track with that and everything is coming together,” he said. “We’re still finishing up a script. I’m very excited.”
The Guardian article doesn't contradict this directly, but he says there "That’s the idea. But it’s not a set thing and there’s no script. If it doesn’t come together in a way I think is really great I’m not going to do it.”
Read carefully: these statements may have been made on the same day, a phonecall apart. In one he's saying there may be a script, in another he's saying there's no script at all. "Finishing up" may mean "we just started but I know everybody reads Variety in this town and nobody reads the Guardian, so I'm going to lie" or it may mean "we've just agreed on the first pre-shooting draft"; either way there's about a dozen major revisions to come before it's ready. There's no way to tell which interview he gave first.
