Ben Affleck says DC films received ‘too previous’ for his or her viewers: ‘My very own son was too scared to look at’

Ben Affleck is aware of the place the DC Cinematic Universe went fallacious.

After portraying billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and his caped alter ego Batman throughout a number of movies, the actor appears again on his superhero tenure with combined emotions. On one hand, he speaks of the expertise fondly — however Affleck additionally has no plans to choose the cowl again up, and a fairly good rationalization for leaving all of it behind.

"I had a very good time. I beloved doing the Batman film. I beloved Batman v Superman. And I appreciated my temporary stints on The Flash that I did and once I started working with Viola Davis on Suicide Squad for a day or two," he not too long ago informed GQ. "By way of creatively, I actually suppose that I like the concept and the ambition that I had for it, which was of the type of older, damaged, broken Bruce Wayne. And it was one thing we actually went for within the first film."

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Certainly, Affleck and director Zack Snyder embraced a darker iteration of the Caped Crusader in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Their tackle the character was not a newcomer to heroics, however a jaded, world-weary determine in his mid-40s. However although he was initially on board, Affleck believes that leaning too far into the darkness is the place the following DC movies went fallacious.

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"What occurred was it began to skew too previous for an enormous a part of the viewers," he defined. "Like even my very own son on the time was too scared to look at the film. Once I noticed that I used to be like, 'Oh s—, now we have an issue.'"

Affleck argued that it made issues worse when Snyder and Warner Bros. started to butt heads.

"You had a filmmaker that wished to proceed down that highway and a studio that wished to recapture all of the youthful viewers at cross functions," he stated. "Then you’ve got two entities, two folks actually desirous to do one thing completely different and that could be a actually dangerous recipe."

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After making his Batfleck debut within the divisive two-hander, Affleck was connected to direct and star in his personal Batman film. However the filmmaker "couldn't crack" the story, as he stated in a 2019 interview. He ultimately stepped away from the challenge — which advanced into Matt Reeves' 2022 model starring Robert Pattinson — and went on to reprise his position in 4 extra tasks over seven years: Suicide Squad, Justice League, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and The Flash.

Although he has spoken extremely of some parts of his superhero tenure, Affleck additionally described filming Justice League as an "excruciating expertise" however maintains that it isn’t the explanation he received't be signing up for future superhero films.

"I’m not all in favour of happening that individual style once more, not due to that dangerous expertise, however simply: I’ve misplaced curiosity in what was of curiosity about it to me," he stated. That stated, his time as Batman isn't one thing he would need to "replicate" elsewhere.

"Loads of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations," he stated, earlier than additionally pointing the finger at himself. "And in addition by the best way, I wasn’t bringing something significantly fantastic to that equation on the time, both. I had my very own failings, important failings, in that course of and at the moment."

In the meantime, Bruce Wayne's future is vibrant. Not solely is Pattinson anticipated to reprise the position within the Reeves-helmed The Batman Part II, however DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are in search of a brand new Batman to lead The Brave and the Bold as a part of their DC Universe reboot.

You’ll be able to catch Affleck subsequent in The Accountant 2, out April 25.

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