No single star featured in the many adverts and trailers of Super Bowl LVII had fingers in as many pies as Ben Affleck, the man who appeared to be pretty much everywhere. From a Dunkin Donuts commercial to a spot for his upcoming feature film, Air, and, of course, confirming he is reprising his role as one of two Bruce Waynes when The Flash releases in June, it was quite an Affleck-centric advertising push during the biggest football game of the year.
With this in mind, if we end up looking back at the first quarter of 2023, we’ll know that Pedro Pascal was an absolutely dominant force with The Last of Us and The Mandalorian. As far as the second quarter is concerned, that honor is very much looking like it will go to Affleck.
Air isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last time the star takes a seat in the director’s chair, so here’s a quickfire summary of the star’s history as a feature film director.
Every movie Ben Affleck has directed
Ben Affleck made his feature film directorial debut with 2007’s detective drama Gone Baby Gone, and has since gone on to direct The Town, Argo, and Live by Night. Affleck also directed and stars in the upcoming Air alongside Matt Damon, in which the pair play Nike executives pursuing the company’s fateful partnership with Michael Jordan. Its first trailer debuted a couple of days ahead of the Super Bowl.
This would bring the total tally of Affleck’s feature film director credits to five, however, per his IMDb profile, we should note that he has two other directorial projects in the pipeline, Keeper of the Lost Cities, and Witness for the Prosecution. He has also had projects scrapped in the past, such as his ill-fated solo Batman film.
If we don’t count feature films, Affleck’s history as a director goes all the way back to 1993 when he directed a 15-minute short film, I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney. Yes, that is indeed a mouthful. If its IMDb rating is anything to go by, it also isn’t very good. Needless to say, the man has come a long way since.