Known to the general public as Batman or Daredevil, Ben Affleck has never left the independent scene in which he started. This is evidenced by the movie Mr. Wolf, which is currently a hit on Netflix.
Released in France in 2016 in rather complete anonymity (barely 319,355 releases in French cinemas), Mr. Wolff sees Ben Affleck portray Christian Wolff, an autistic maths genius turned chartered accountant who launders money for various mafias around the world. When he starts working for a robot company and uncovers massive embezzlement, the bodies begin to pile up.
Ben Affleck
The project is directed by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Mare of Easttown) and Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Jon Bernthal (Punisher), JK Simmons, John Lithgow or Jeffrey Tambor.
Mr. Wolf is partly designed as an anti-superhero movie, hijacking all the codes of the genre and putting references to DC Comics in many scenes, have fun finding them! In addition, the character of Christian is undoubtedly one of Ben Affleck’s best roles, an actor who plays everything with nuance and perfectly portrays on the screen this ability that is autism, without the slightest caricature.
With Anna Kendrick
The film was far from a failure, earning $155 million worldwide on a budget of $44 million. Outings of superheroes.
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