{"id":881914,"date":"2026-10-14T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881914\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:56:12","slug":"ben-affleck-calls-filming-justice-league-a-low-point-in-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881914\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Calls Filming Justice League a ‘Low Point’ in His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBen Affleck<\/a> has determined that filming Justice League<\/a> was a \u201clow point\u201d in his acting career.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor-producer-director made a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>, where he opened up to host Josh Horowitz about why making the movie was such a negative experience. Affleck played Bruce Wayne\/Batman in the 2017 superhero pic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe truth is, the experience of Justice League for me was so, so negative for lots of different reasons,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSome of which having to do with where I was personally, some of which having to do with the tragedy that happened during the time, and also the fact that I really saw how not to make a movie like that when the studio is at odds with the filmmaker. You\u2019re really making a mistake. That was what really doomed that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter 2016\u2019s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice became a major critical disappointment and didn\u2019t meet Warner Bros.\u2019 box office expectations, the studio wanted Zack Snyder<\/a>\u2019s Justice League to be a lighter tone, despite the filmmaker\u2019s darker creative vision for the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring post-production, Snyder stepped away from the movie following the death of his daughter.<\/a> Warner Bros. then brought in director Joss Whedon to oversee extensive reshoots, which ultimately lightened the tone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBoy, that was shitty,\u201d Affleck said. \u201cHim being taken off that movie, and the reshoots that we did \u2014 if you want the low point of my career, [it] was that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHorowitz also asked the Animals star and director if he had any kind of \u201cepiphany\u201d while working on Justice League as he saw \u201cthis film kind of collapsing in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSomebody\u2019s death by suicide, that eclipses everything,\u201d Affleck replied. \u201cAnd the way in which that was, I thought, frankly, used as an excuse\u2026 I just thought that was one of the shittiest things I\u2019ve ever seen. It was so gross. And then the whole environment and vibe, much of which I wasn\u2019t privy to, but that I sort of heard about secondhand in terms of Ray [Fisher] and Gal [Gadot] and other people\u2019s experiences. It was just like, \u2018Wow, this is about as gross as it gets.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeveral years later, fans finally got to see Snyder\u2019s version of the film. A Justice League director\u2019s cut <\/a>was released in 2021 on HBO Max following a global fan campaign, a strategy shift for the streamer and Warner Bros. investing $70 million to finish visual effects and editing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was really glad and gratified that Zack got to release [his cut], and he did it in a very kind of canny way\u2026 manipulated his way into getting his thing released, which was fucking great,\u201d Affleck said. \u201cI was really happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck has determined that filming Justice League was a \u201clow point\u201d in his acting career. The actor-producer-director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[21821,236,88,133703,54527,233263],"class_list":["post-881914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ben-affleck","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-justice-league","tag-zack-snyder","tag-zack-snyders-justice-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}