Ben Affleck Believes His Batman Skewed Too Old to Appeal to Younger Viewers: ‘We Have a Problem’

Ben Affleck has shared one of the reasons why he believes his take on Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ short-lived, since-abandoned Snyder-verse didn’t land with the studio or some viewers.

When asked about his experience working within Zack Snyder’s doomed DC Comics-inspired universe, Affleck told GQ, “I had a really good time. I loved doing the Batman movie. I loved ‘Batman v Superman.’ And I liked my brief stints on ‘The Flash’ that I did and when I got to work with Viola Davis on ‘Suicide Squad’ for a day or two.”

Reflecting further, Affleck added, “In terms of creatively, I really think that I like the idea and the ambition that I had for it, which was of the sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne.”

“It was something we really went for in the first movie,” Affleck continued. “But what happened was it started to skew too old for a big part of the audience. Like even my own son at the time was too scared to watch the movie. And so when I saw that I was like, ‘Oh s—t, we have a problem.'” It was Snyder’s interest in sticking to the darker, more mature tone of 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” that Affleck says planted the seeds for the rift between Warner Bros. and the director.

“You had a filmmaker that wanted to continue down that road and a studio that wanted to recapture all the younger audience at cross purposes,” he explained. “Then you have two entities, two people really wanting to do something different and that is a really bad recipe.”

Affleck, who stars opposite Jon Bernthal in the upcoming “The Accountant 2,” also looked back on the infamously difficult, troubled production of 2017’s “Justice League,” calling it a “really excruciating experience.”

“There are a number of reasons why,” Affleck stated. “And they don’t all have to do with the simple dynamic of, say, being in a superhero movie or whatever.” While he may still respect the ambition of what he and Snyder wanted to do with the Caped Crusader, he confirmed to GQ that he has no interest in returning to the world of DC Comics — or any other superhero universe.

“I am not interested in going down that particular genre again,” Affleck admitted. “Not because of that bad experience, but just: I’ve lost interest in what was of interest about it to me.”

“The Accountant 2” is set to hit theaters on April 25.

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