{"id":800685,"date":"2026-10-12T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800685\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:50:10","slug":"ben-affleck-calls-justice-league-reshoots-the-low-point-of-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800685\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Calls Justice League Reshoots the ‘Low Point of My Career’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBen Affleck<\/a> appeared on the latest episode of the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast and called the reshoots for \u201cJustice League<\/a>\u201d the \u201clow point of my career.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros. infamously replaced director Zack Snyder<\/a> with Joss Whedon<\/a> to overhaul the movie after Snyder needed to pause work due to his daughter\u2019s death. Snyder estimated in a recent interview with Variety <\/a>that Whedon\u2019s reshoots covered 60 new pages of material. The end product resulted in a critical and commercial misfire for Warner Bros. Whedon was later accused <\/a>by \u201cJustice League\u201d actor Gal Gadot of threatening her on set, claims of which he denied.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe experience of \u2018Justice League\u2019 was so negative for lots of different reasons, some of which have to do with where I was at personally and some of which had to do with the tragedy that happened at that time,\u201d Affleck said. \u201cI saw how not to make a movie like that, which is where the studio is at odds with the filmmaker. You are really making a mistake. I was really glad and gratified that Zack got to release [his version via the Snyder Cut]. That was fucking great. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSomebody\u2019s death by suicide eclipses everything,\u201d Affleck continued, referring to the death of Snyder\u2019s daughter. \u201cThe way in which that was, I thought, used as an excuse [to replace Zack] was one of the shittiest things I\u2019ve ever seen. It was so gross. 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, \u2018Wow, this is about as gross as it gets.\u2019 And I was drinking too much\u2026 and I got divorced. It was a difficult time for me personally, but those thing, while painful, did not impact that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAffleck previously told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that making \u201cJustice League\u201d was \u201ca nadir experience\u201d that made him not want to continue playing Batman. The actor added at the time: \u201cI didn\u2019t like being there. I didn\u2019t think it was interesting. And then some really shitty things, awful things happened. But, that\u2019s when I was like, I\u2019m not going to do that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere during his \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d interview, Affleck confirmed that Lucasfilm approached him about directing \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens.\u201d Whether that means he was the studio\u2019s first choice or if they were also talking to eventual pick J.J. Abrams at the time is not something Affleck knows. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI talked to those folks at the time, and that was one where I just was like, again, I thought like, \u2018Hey, I like \u2018Star Wars\u2019 and I\u2019m a fan, but I\u2019m not the person to direct this movie,\u2019\u201d Affleck explained about turning down \u201cStar Wars.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just think someone else who has more passion for this is going to do a better job. There\u2019s a lot of challenges to reinventing that,\u201d Affleck continued. \u201cIn fact, you\u2019ve seen that played out. It hasn\u2019t been easy for them to reinvent that franchise. Some have done really well, some \u2014 and you\u2019ve got this whole fan base that\u2019s got its own very strong opinions\u2026 I just thought like, \u2018You know what? This would be \u2014 I don\u2019t think I can do it as well as somebody else, and I don\u2019t want to direct something that I don\u2019t feel like I have a chance to be really really proud of.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Affleck\u2019s full interview on \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck appeared on the latest episode of the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast and called the reshoots for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14192,96,118044,92277,2839,56,54,55,21867],"class_list":["post-800685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-affleck","tag-entertainment","tag-joss-whedon","tag-justice-league","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zack-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}