When he is part of those sorts of films he’s frequently also talked about in the race for awards and a movie like this certainly could be part of that conversation.
While he’s no stranger to action, he’s much more frequently part of dramatic films about more real people.
While most of the buzz around Ben Affleck’s film career may be about exactly what his future is as Batman, because nobody quite knows what’s going on there, Torrance, as described by TMZ, sounds much more like the type of film that Ben Affleck likes to make.