ABOVE: Watch Help Save the Bats featuring Ben Affleck, Amy Adams and Zack Snyder.
TORONTO — The new big screen Batman is going to bat for — you guessed it — bats.
Ben Affleck, who plays the Dark Knight in the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, appears in a video marking National Save the Bats Week.
The video, produced to support the Michigan-based Organization for Bat Conservation, was made after Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder learned about a fungal disease that is killing nature’s only flying mammals.
Bats are instrumental for controlling insect populations and dispersing fruit seeds.
According to the video, white-nose syndrome currently affects bat species in nearly half of the U.S. and parts of Canada.
“A lot of people are scared of bats and they think bats are bad,” Snyder says in the video. “But bats are incredibly beneficial.”
Also lending her support is Amy Adams, who plays Lois Lane in the movie.
“I was definitely afraid of bats before,” she says, while holding a large bat. “But really they have a lot of personality, actually. They’re quite charming.”
Materials from the set of Batman v Superman, which was largely shot in the Detroit area, are being used to build bat houses that are being sold to raise money for the cause.
The video ends with Affleck urging people to preserve this “valiant knight of a species for now and years to come.”
Batman v Superman is due in cinemas in March 2016.
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