A lot of fans will stand by Ben Affleck’s version of Batman from the DCEU, and while some still think the multiverse will allow him back, Affleck says he’s pretty much done with the character based on his terrible experience working on him.
In a recent interview with GQ (via Variety), Affleck shares:
“I am not interested in going down that particular genre again, not because of that bad experience, but just: I’ve lost interest in what was of interest about it to me. But I certainly wouldn’t want to replicate an experience like that. A lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations…”
Besides playing Batman for the main DCEU, Affleck was also set to direct his own movie before deciding that it was all too much of a hassle with all the studio drama. That being said, he does admit that maybe some of the blame should go his way. He continues:
“… And also by the way, I wasn’t bringing anything particularly wonderful to that equation at the time, either. I had my own failings, significant failings, in that process and at that time… in terms of why I had a bad experience, part of it is that what I was bringing to work every day was a lot of unhappiness. So I wasn’t bringing a lot of positive energy to the equation. I didn’t cause problems, but I came in and I did my job and I went home. But you’ve got to do a little bit better than that.”
Affleck’s last chance playing Bruce Wayne was in the Flash movie that eventually flopped. While a lot of people did bash the film mainly for Ezra Miller, I definitely thought the story had a lot of heart, and Affleck’s Bruce Wayne had a good sendoff—if you could call it that.
It’s a shame that Affleck had a bad experience as Batman, but he could be rest assured that his version is one that has thousands of fans backing it; and hopefully he gets a change of heart in the next few years.
