Ben Affleck Knows You Like It When He Helms, So...

Getting cast as Batman in the forthcoming Man of Steel sequel (and therefore showing off Henry Cavill) and Runner Runner didn’t do him any too many favors – so Ben Affleck is fixing to step behind the camera soon.

From where he will direct himself, though.

I keed, I keed – and, indeed, Affleck is gearing to helm an Africa-set geopolitical thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to kill a warlord.

Don’t you hate it when that happens (if you’re a warlord, that is)?

The Oscar winner – who is currently starring in the adaptation of Gone Girl – is also scheduled to pull double duty on Live By Night, the adaptation of another Dennis Lehane novel.

Photo: Moviefone.com.