Recently, James Gunn and Peter Safran announced 10 upcoming DC projects that will make up the first chapter of an unfurling saga they will preside over at Warner Bros. This included a potential Swamp Thing movie, a reboot of Batman and Robin titled The Brave and the Bold, and Gunn’s own Superman project, titled Superman: Legacy. That means the studio is moving off of the SnyderVerse of films, which included Man of Steel and Zack Snyder’s Justice League… and was supposed to include a solo Batman movie directed by and starring Ben Affleck. So why did Affleck walk away from that project? He opened up over the weekend.
Ben Affleck attended a screening of Zack Snyder’s Justice League in Los Angeles on Sunday as part of a three-day celebration dubbed SnyderCon by the director’s fans. And in response to a question from a fan about Affleck’s plan for Batman, and what his solo movie might have included, the director of Air and Argo explained some of this approach, but also why he ultimately gave up on the project. During the post-screening Q-and-A, Affleck said:
