One of the greatest “What If?” of the DC Cinematic Universe will always be Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie. According to the DC timeline, this film would have arrived at some point after Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and paid off on one end-credits scene included in that movie – where Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke meets with Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, and gained valuable information on Batman’s secret identity. The movie theoretically would have pit Affleck’s Caped Crusader against Slade Wilson, one of DC’s most lethal supervillains. But why did the Air director want to limit himself to one opponent?
Zack Snyder recently screened his four-hour Snyder Cut of Justice League, followed by a Q-and-A that included Ben Affleck. And when explaining why he walked away from directing the solo Batman movie, Affleck also broke down the reason why he wanted to zero in on one opponent for his story, rather than some form of villainous team up. Several Batman movies in the past have combined threats from The Joker (Heath Ledger) and Two-Face (Aaron Eckhart), for example, but Affleck told the gathered crowd:
