Welcome back everyone it's Charlie you may have seen the recent interview
Ben Affleck talking about what was going on with his version of the Batman why he
passed the torch to Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson what his version of the
Batman movie was going to be what their version is going to be and how things
have changed behind the scenes it's all very fascinating so we'll break it all
down if you're new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the videos
I'll be doing a lot more Batman videos now that they're in the middle of
shooting the Batman movie we're getting a lot more details about what's going to
be going on so we just break this down top 7 style starting with number 7 Ben
Affleck has been doing press interviews recently for his new indie movie
promoting that you've probably seen him a lot in the news he's been way more
active on his Twitter account wally was doing those he revealed the real reason
why he chose to stop being Batman in the first place and decided not to do his
version of the Batman movie instead passing the torch to Matt Reeves and
Robert Pattinson as we all saw they just released the teaser of him in the
costume obviously it's a big creative redesign for the characters they've
shifted his new movies into the past so it's kind of a prequel of sorts even
though it's not meant to officially be a prequel to Ben Affleck's Batman but it's
kind of the same thing that the studio did when Christopher Nolan came on to
the Dark Knight trilogy after they did the Schumacher trilogy just a completely
different creative aspect and approach to the Batman character the big thing
about Ben Affleck's interview though is that it's a stark contrast to what
people were saying about what was going on at the time when he initially
announced that he wasn't going to be Batman anymore
because it went on for a long time there were a lot of delays with his Batman
movie if you don't remember they actually announced that it was going to
happen they said Ben Affleck will write and direct his own Batman movie everyone
got really excited it was at the beginning of 2016 because Ben Affleck
was coming off as oscar-winning director run we hadn't seen Batman V Superman yet
but we gotten a teaser for the movie so we knew that that was coming up we knew
that they were going to make Justice League so the Batman movie that they
announced was going to happen after the Justice League movie but there was all
this cool stuff coming up everyone was really excited I think it was at
CinemaCon in 2016 when they announced the Batman movie but at the time the
trades were reporting that his Batman movie was supposed to come out fall 2018
or fall 2019 remember that this is 2016 when they're announcing this so there
was still way down the road that that was going to happen that was also with a
time when they were still going to do a trilogy
of Justice League film so they weren't going to start filming the Batman movie
with Ben Affleck till after they finished filming all three of those
Justice League films their plan was very similar to the way that Marvel filmed
Avengers infinity war in Avengers endgame just doing it back-to-back so it
was way more filming time for the actors but is because they were doing two giant
films at the same time number six but then as we all saw
Batman V Superman came out a couple months later after they had announced
the Batman movie divided Orion PSA's so much that the studio Warner Brothers
panicked and that's when all the drama on the set of Justice League started in
the start of what a lot of Ben Affleck refers to as his own personal problems
his personal demons flaring up that's when he says a lot of his drinking
problems got really bad just because of the stress of filming the Justice League
movie and all the stuff that happened behind the scenes on that one of the
early problems that they had with Justice League though is that they had
already started filming it when Batman V Superman hit theaters so the studio
wanted to make all these changes while they were already in the middle of
filming this original vision that they had for this trilogy then things got
even worse later that year when Suicide Squad came out and did even worse wound
up being a disaster so the studio panicked even more they went up changing
their plans again for Justice League instead of doing it to films they would
just do one Justice League film and then obviously as we know Zack Snyder was
forced to leave the project for family reasons so number five what happened
after that is originally Ben Affleck was supposed to roll right into production
on directing the Batman movie for a 2019 release date and that was going to be his
last major film as the Batman character he and Geoff Johns had finished their
script a long time before all the Justice League stuff started happening
so the script was sitting on a shelf it was ready to go but now Ben Affleck this
past week said that the reason why his version of the Batman movie didn't move
forward like we all thought it would was because all the trouble they had on set
doing Justice League exacerbated his own inner demons in drinking problems he
said at the time he had shown the batman movies script to some people everyone
said it looked like a great movie it seemed like it was going to be a slam dunk
he was a great director in his own right so there was no reason to believe that
he couldn't do it but the sheer toll of directing and being the lead actor in
the same movie and it being a major 50 million dollar studio tentpole film
at that seems so insurmountable the stress seems so great that both he and
his closest inner-circle of friends were worried that the stress of it all would
cause him to drink himself to death so his main reason for leaving the Batman
role and his version of the Batman movie passing the torch to Matt Reeves and
Robert Pattinson was more him thinking about his own well-being the well-being
of his family his own personal health at the time there were all kinds of
terrible rumors about the studio not being happy with his version of the
movie turns out that's all bullcrap everything was fine it was just Ben
Affleck was in a very bad place personally in none of his friends or
family wanted to see him kill himself slowly trying to make a Batman movie so
number four what was his version of the Batman movie going to be well you
remember the Deathstroke teaser that Ben Affleck posted himself a couple years
ago that airplane hangar that was actually them testing out the special
effects in the costume for Joe Manganiello Deathstroke for the Batman
movie he was originally going to be the main villain of that Batman movie the
script that he and Geoff Johns wrote the studio had big plans for Deathstroke as
a character within the DC Universe - they had a cameo in the Justice League
post-credit scene they were originally going to do a Deathstroke solo movie
currently that's not happening right now I think they kind of shelve that
permanently what we do know about his version of the Batman movies script is
that it would have been a version of the raid redemption set in Arkham Asylum
with Batman being forced to fight his way down floor-by-floor through a
gauntlet of his own worst villains that he himself had personally put in Arkham
there weren't any big reports about why he had to fight his way through Arkham
if it had anything to do with the Joker obviously at the time that's still Jared
Leto's version of the Joker or if it was a baby Yoda situation with a child that
he was trying to save that was being held in the lower levels if you've never
seen the raid movie it's actually a pretty badass foreign film but it would
have been a very self-contained Batman gauntlet run inside Arkham kind
of like the batman arkham games at the time it if it wasn't clear that movie
would have taken place after the events of the Justice League movie because the
movie would have come out after Justice League and we're still with Ben
Affleck's version of the character it wouldn't have been a prequel or anything
like that number three so then what happened after Ben Affleck made the
final decision to pass on the project was letting the studio know and that's
when they hired Matt Reeves to write and produce and direct a new
man movie recasting the role which would eventually wind up being Robert
Pattinson as we all saw when they brought on Matt Reeves for the project
part of his deal was that he would be able to do his own version of the Batman
the studio also kind of wanted to differentiate this new version of the
Batman from the Ben Affleck version that had come before like sort of creatively
retuned things even though there were a lot of good things about Ben Affleck's
Batman but that was also part of the reason for going with a younger version
of Batman 1 because Matt Reeves really wanted to do a Batman year 2 year 3
story early in his career a lot of this all coincides with the leadership
changes behind the scenes at Warner Brothers they decided to clean house
behind the scenes and stick with the stuff that was working already not
change any of that stuff and just retune some of the bigger stuff that they
weren't super happy with we're in the case of people like Ben Affleck who
didn't want to continue playing their character just bring in a totally new
team to reimagine the character during a different time period so number two
right now Matt Reeves first Batman movie is being made with the same intent that
Christopher Nolan had when he first started making Batman Begins they were
coming off the schumacher Batman movies and they wanted to creatively reimagine
the character but Christopher Nolan did not have a green light for the Dark
Knight yet when he was making Batman Begins his deal initially was just for
that first Batman movie and they were like well this Batman movie does well
then we'll do another one but one movie at a time obviously the studio saw
Batman Begins when it was almost finished and said okay you know this
Christopher Nolan guy seems like he knows what he's doing let's give him
some more money to make more of these Batman movies but that was sort of a
different era of big comic-book movies before the dawn of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe that's when all of Hollywood all the other Studios got thirsty for
their own cinematic universes which is where a lot of Warner Brothers problems
with their DC movies started trying to rush out their own version of the MCU
instead of taking their time to establish all their main players first
so because they just released the new Batman teaser with Robert Pattinson
number one a lot of people asking if his version of the Batman will ever
crossover with other Justice League characters because there are a lot of
them now they're going to be a ton more DC films with different characters well
right now everything that the studio the producers and Matt Reeves himself have
said I think the only way that Robert Pattinson is Batman ever winds up in a
future Justice League movie or big crossover movie with another
Justice League character is if he still wants to be Batman after the third new
Batman movie in their trilogy that wouldn't happen for a minimum of six to
eight years depending on how long they take between movies in its minimum two
years between big Batman sequels I think the big takeaway from all this is that
everyone just give Ben Affleck a lot more sympathy now based on all the
Batman stuff that happened because obviously he was thinking of his own
health and I think he made the right choice nobody wants to see him slowly
kill himself just to get another Batman movie out so everyone post your
reactions in the comments below do you think that he made the right decision
and obviously I'll be doing more Batman videos as we learn more about what's
going on with the Batman movie the Batman character in the future everyone
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