Ben Affleck appeared on the latest episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and called the reshoots for “Justice League” the “low point of my career.” Warner Bros. infamously replaced Zack Snyder with Joss Whedon to overhaul the movie after Snyder needed to pause work due to his daughter’s death. Snyder estimated in a recent interview with Variety that Whedon’s reshoots covered 60 new pages of material. The end product resulted in a critical and commercial misfire for Warner Bros.
Whedon was later accused by “Justice League” actor Gal Gadot of threatening her on set, claims of which he denied. You are really making a mistake. I was really glad and gratified that Zack got to release [his version via the SnyderCut].
I was really happy for him. That was shitty, him being taken off that movie and the reshoots that we did. If you want the low point of my career, it was that.” “Somebody’s death by suicide eclipses everything,” Affleck continued, referring to the death of Snyder’s daughter.
The whole environment and vibe [on set during the reshoots], much of which I was not privy to but heard secondhand from the actors, it was just, ‘Wow, this is about as gross as it gets.’ And I was drinking too much… and I got divorced. It was a difficult time for me personally, but those thing, while painful, did not impact that movie.” Affleck previously told Entertainment Weekly that making “Justice League” was “a nadir experience” that made him not want to continue playing Batman. The actor added at the time: “I didn’t like being there.
I didn’t think it was interesting. And then some really shitty things, awful things happened. But, that’s when I was like, I’m not going to do that anymore.” Elsewhere during his “Happy Sad Confused” interview, Affleck confirmed that Lucasfilm approached him about directing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Whether that means he was the studio’s first choice or if they were also talking to eventual pick J.J.
Abrams at the time is not something Affleck knows. There’s a lot of challenges to reinventing that,” Affleck continued. It hasn’t been easy for them to reinvent that franchise.
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