Ben Affleck Calls the Justice League Reshoots the Low Point of His Career, Slams How Warner Bros. Handled Zack Snyder’s Exit

Ben Affleck revisited one of the roughest chapters of his career this week, telling Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that the reshoots on 2017’s Justice League were the lowest point of his time in Hollywood. The comments, published October 12, came while Affleck is making the press rounds for his new Netflix thriller Animals, alongside Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson.

“The Low Point of My Career”

Affleck didn’t mince words about what happened after Zack Snyder stepped away from directing Justice League partway through production. “If you want the low point of my career, it was that,” he said, pointing straight at Snyder’s removal and the extensive reshoots that followed under Joss Whedon.

Ben Affleck has spent the past two weeks doing press for his new Netflix thriller Animals, alongside revisiting his history playing Batman.

Warner Bros.’ Excuse

Snyder stepped away from Justice League in 2017 following the death of his daughter Autumn by suicide, the reason Warner Bros. gave at the time for the sudden change in direction. Affleck was careful to separate the two issues, saying the loss itself “eclipses everything,” but argued the studio still leaned on it as cover for a separate, already souring clash between Snyder and the studio over the film’s direction, one he said played out in an atmosphere he simply called “gross.”

A Rocky DCEU Legacy

Joss Whedon took over to finish Justice League, and the film that reached theaters that November grossed roughly $661.3 million worldwide, a disappointing number for a team-up movie meant to kickstart Warner Bros.’ answer to the Avengers. Snyder eventually released his original four hour vision, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, on HBO Max in 2021 after years of fan campaigning, a route to getting his cut out that Affleck now calls “canny.”

Affleck also looked back on a solo Batman film that fell apart, one that would have built around Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke and drawn from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns take on an older, worn down Bruce Wayne. That version of Deathstroke resurfaced years later in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, with Robert Pattinson in the cowl.

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