It's been barely over two weeks since Ben Affleck officially hung up the cape and cowl and confirmed he would not be reprising his role as Batman in Matt Reeves' forthcoming film The Batman . In addition to starring in the title role, Affleck was intended to direct and write the script for the movie, but for those of you wondering what his story might have been, even he doesn't know.

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IGN's Max Scoville sat down with Affleck for a special live roundtable interview with him and the rest of the star-studded cast of Netflix's Triple Frontier, and asked the actor what his Batman movie would have been. You can watch Affleck answer the question at the 16:20 moment below:"That was part of the problem," admitted Affleck candidly. "We worked on the script, I was trying to figure out how to crack it, and I was never happy enough with it where I thought it was worth going out and making it because I just didn't want to do a version that I wasn't really excited by, so I still don't know."Warner Bros. announced in April 2016 that Affleck would star, direct and write a standalone Batman movie . But when IGN visited the set of Justice League several months later , Affleck admitted even then to not quite being able to crack a Batman story that he felt was good enough to take to film."I don’t have a script that’s ready yet. My timetable is I’m not going to make a movie until there’s a script that I think is good because I’ve been on the end of the things when you make movies when you have a script that’s not good yet and it doesn’t pan out," he said back in June 2016. "I have a script, we’re still working on it, and I’m not happy enough with it yet to actually go out there and make a Batman movie, for which I have the highest of standards, I would say. That’s something that would have to pass a very high bar for me. It’s not just like, 'Yeah, that might be fun, let’s go try this out.'"After Reeves took over as director of The Batman in 2017 , he confirmed he would not be working on the script Affleck had started and instead would be developing a fresh story. Now that Affleck is officially not starring in the movie now, the question is less about what would his story have been and, more pressingly, about who is going to play Batman now that he is off the project? (Don't worry, we have some ideas .)Reeves intends for The Batman to follow a younger version of the caped crusader, and focus largely on the detective side of Batman's persona like in many Batman graphic novels "I hope it's going to be a story that will be thrilling but also emotional. It's more Batman in his detective mode than we've seen in the films. The comics have a history of that," Reeves said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter . "He's supposed to be the world's greatest detective, and that's not necessarily been a part of what the movies have been. I'd love this to be one where when we go on that journey of tracking down the criminals and trying to solve a crime, it's going to allow his character to have an arc so that he can go through a transformation.”In other recent DC film news, Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara confirmed comments Reeves has recently made about it not being a priority for the upcoming DC movie slate to be part of a shared, extended universe."The upcoming slate, with Shazam!, Joker, Wonder Woman 1984 and Birds of Prey, feels like we’re on the right track. We have the right people in the right jobs working on it. The universe isn’t as connected as we thought it was going to be five years ago," Tsujihara told the Los Angeles Times . "You’re seeing much more focus on individual experiences around individual characters. That’s not to say we won’t at some point come back to that notion of a more connected universe. But it feels like that’s the right strategy for us right now."Directed by J.C. Chandor, Triple Frontier stars Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund and Adria Aroja and will hit Netflix on March 13. The synopsis for the film reads: "Loyalties are tested when five former special forces operatives reunite to steal a drug lord's fortune, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences."

Terri Schwartz is Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz