Ben Affleck will soon reprise his role as Batman in Andy Muschietti’s movie Sparkle, But the actor was originally supposed to get his own standalone Batman movie before Robert Pattinson took over the role in Matt Reeves. Batman. Affleck developed a standalone film set in the shared DC Extended Universe and attached to direct the script he co-wrote with Jeff Jones about Batman battling Deathstroke. However, Affleck left the managerial position in 2017, and Warner Bros. Reeves, who ultimately declined to direct Affleck’s script in favor of the rebooted version released earlier this year. Reeves recently said that despite going in his own direction Jeff Goldsmith In his podcast that Affleck’s version “could have been a very interesting movie”.
“The movie was originally directed by Ben Affleck, and the script they sent me was written by Ben but rewritten by another talented writer, and when I read it, I was like, ‘Oh, you get it,'” Reeves explained. Ben’s character, but he was more action-driven than I felt I could do. I didn’t relate to the movie from my point of view as a filmmaker. James Bond Ian was full of lots of set pieces. It would have been a very exciting movie for someone else, but it wasn’t for me.”
Reeves added, “Interestingly, I think Ben wasn’t sure he wanted to because he eventually moved away from doing Batman together…maybe because of the choices in his life at the time and what he wanted to do.”
“I said look, I think I might not be the right person for this,” Reeves said previously of starring Affleck Batman. “I explained to them why I like this character. I told them there had been a lot of great movies, but if I was going to do this, I had to make it personal, so that I understood what I was going to do with it, so that I knew where to put the camera, so that I knew what to say to the actors, so that I knew what the story should be.”
Batman from Ben Affleck returns in Sparklein theaters June 23, 2023. Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell Batman Now broadcasting on HBO Max.
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