By the time actor/co-writer/director Ben Affleck?s The Batman arrives in theaters sometime in 2018, it will be the ninth modern big-screen installment to star the Dark Knight. And if you include the two 1940s serials, the 1966 companion to the live-action television series, and the character?s cameos in the recent Suicide Squad, it'll be the 13th overall. According to ComicBook.