Throughout a meeting with Josh Horowitz on the Delighted Sad Baffled podcast, Ben Affleck rather openly damaged down his “adverse” experience shooting Warner Bros.’s 2017 film Justice League, describing it as the “nadir” of his whole career. Likewise, the Batman celebrity took purpose at the movie’s execs for the method the death of director Zack Snyder’s child was “made use of as an excuse” to change him throughout reshoots.
Adhering to a question regarding the terminated solo Batman film in the DCEU, in which Affleck was set to reprise his role, the star began recounting his time working with Synder’s Justice Organization While Affleck specified that he “liked playing” the DCEU’s Frank Miller-inspired take on Batman, the “experience of Justice League was so negative” that it educated him specifically “how not to make a movie,” and he straight slammed Detector Bros.’ treatment of director Zack Snyder throughout the shoot while doing so.
“Child, that was shitty,” specified Affleck (via IGN “Him being taken off that movie, and the reshoots that we did– if you desire the nadir of my occupation, it was that […] Someone’s fatality by suicide, that overshadows every little thing. And the manner in which was, I assumed, truthfully, used as an excuse … I simply assumed that was among the shittiest things I have actually ever seen. It was so gross.”
Zack Snyder’s daughter passed throughout Justice League’s post-production, whereupon Snyder was replaced by The Avengers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer director Joss Whedon. Instead, however, Whedon took place to reshoot large pieces of the movie.
Ray Fisher, who represented Cyborg in Justice Organization, would later on accuse Whedon of “gross, abusive, less than professional, and totally undesirable” practices during the reshoots, and criticized Detector Bros.’s officers Jon Berg and Geoff Johns for enabling him. Co-star Jason Momoa later on sustained Fisher’s remarks. Wonder Female actor Gal Gadot likewise specified that Whedon “intimidated” her profession after she rejected to record her lines.
As Affleck took place to clarify, he heard “used” states of his co-star’s “gross” experiences on set: “The whole atmosphere and ambiance, a lot of which I had not been privy to, but that I found out about second-hand, in terms of Ray and Girl and other people’s experiences, it was similar to … ‘Wow, this is about as gross as it gets.” And I was consuming too much. That’s when I began to seem like, ‘I would love to give up alcohol consumption, and I’m having a difficult time not alcohol consumption.'”
