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abandoned and literally never think
about yeah okay so Ben Affleck has fled
the Batman movie that isn't called the
Batman officially it's just something
they've kind of loosely labeled it and
by flood I mean he's still on board as
producer and writer well one of them and
star but he'll be handing over the reins
to a different director now my immediate
reaction is well that all sounds bad
that's not to say it'll be a terrible
movie but I do think it speaks to some
of the wider problems we've been hearing
about over at Warner Brothers and DC so
in addition to giving away a loot crate
at the end of this I want to cover some
of the background in terms of some of
the missteps the studio has made how we
got to this point where Ben Affleck is
leaving and also peek ahead into the
future of the series and how this movie
could absolutely still be salvaged okay
so it's weird the reaction that a lot of
people had to Ben Affleck leaving was
kinda yeah that's the sort of thing that
keeps happening over at Warner Brothers
I mean I don't know what kind of liquid
they got in that water tower but things
have always been really weird
maybe the Animaniacs have been peeing in
it I don't know I mean if you look back
to 2014 patty Jenkins left Wonder Woman
apparently due to her in the studio
having vastly different opinions on how
to go about the film which also may or
may not have involved Wonder Woman
having a pet tiger or something then you
only have to look at the flash losing
its second director very recently and
then inexplicably the whole thing is
getting a page-one script
rewrite despite the duo behind the lego
movie and the Jump Street movies having
written the first incarnation this by
the way is a film that is due out next
March and began filming in January and
by that I mean that clearly didn't
happen as planned and there's a
snowball's chance in snot snow wait I
think I'm just going to swap this no
that's that's still quite cold again I
feel like a snowball would be all right
there fine that'll do a snowball's
chance in a shoe store and despite
Warner Brothers kicking goals with
multiple other franchises including
Harry Potter Lord of the Rings and the
Dolphin Tale films they've seemed to
always struggle with comic book
franchises with some exceptions we had
the dead in the water Superman leaves
movie from the 90s the debacle that
became that run of Batman movies a
version of Batman beasts
man from the early 2000s that was
scrapped which actually have an
animation off on my channel if you want
to check it out or link it below JJ
Abrams is Superman fly by Catwoman green
lanten George Miller's Justice League
that got canned at the very last minute
a Green Arrow film and I guess you could
include the way this franchise continues
to stumble about like a person slipping
on a melted snow ball in a shoe store
and that brings us to now Ben Affleck
departing Batman something that I feel
he has been heating out for a while now
you know just being very hot and cold
about taking on the project I just wish
you know I had some kind of evidence to
back up what I'm saying June 22nd 2016
Ben Affleck tells Collider
I think Warner Brothers has a date for
it although I don't know if I would
necessarily be able to make that date
because I don't have a script that's
ready yet so my timetable is I'm not
gonna make a movie until there's a
script that I think is good I've been on
the end of things when you make movies
when you have a script that's not good
and it doesn't pan out September 30 2016
Ben Affleck tells screech or Slater or
Callie I don't I didn't watch Saved by
the Bell that he will be directing in
your directing the next and a little bit
that's right yeah that's what they say
top secret
nothing October 30 of 2016
that's a hard voice to my time Affleck
confirms that there is no Batman film
happening not yet despite the rumored
tentative release date of October 2018
that Warner Brothers have apparently set
the movie there is no Batman movie
happening yet we're still trying to
figure it out so you know get the script
and budgeting all that stuff and of
course most famously Ben Affleck went on
Kimmel On January 10th of this year less
than a month ago confirming that yes he
will be directing wasn't this blank all
right Chuck January 10 2016
[Applause]
[Laughter]
that video is all well and good but I
prefer the one from around the same time
where isn't just playing up his
frustration for the audience and he's
just clearly sick of all the
January something I don't remember the
exact date oh my god it's such a pain in
the ass it's like every time I mentioned
Batman it gets this huge you know
clickbait when I was doing this movie it
should be two years to get it together
but nobody ever asked me where's lived
by night you know they asked me and it's
completely understandable
he's response since he was announced as
the new Batman in 2013 it's all anyone's
been asking him and there seems to have
been this mounting pressure from Warner
Brothers to get this film going when he
clearly hasn't been happy with the
script
because if he was well we would have had
a solid release date confirmed by him
and he wouldn't keep saying hey I don't
really like the script please please
don't make me do this I'm so sad this
has even reflected in his statement upon
leaving the project where he mentions
that it became clear that he can't do
both jobs to the level they require
which to me says the expectations he put
on himself and those which water
brothers had of him did not align also I
don't doubt that this sudden turn around
and departure is also a result of his
latest directorial effort lived why not
in addition to no one wanting to ask him
about this passion project of his I'd
imagine he was feeling burnt by the
critical and commercial response and
would be reluctant to rush into another
project for which he feels thoroughly
unprepared I do they have my doubts
regarding his reluctance to both direct
and star in this film he's done that
successfully before in the town and that
one where he's got the weird hair though
to be fair he has admitted that he's
never worked on something like a Batman
film before plus if he's both directing
and acting whilst wearing the biggest
dumbest hardest and heaviest costume
imaginable you know frankly that seems
really difficult and all the while he
has to maintain this physique that
requires an insane amount of diet and
rigorous exercise as highlighted by this
montage I've made get ready for it here
comes
you
all these funny little goings-on at
Warner Brothers I genuinely think come
down to again I've said this before that
nobody's really steering the ship
I mean it's supposedly Geoff Johns but
despite this apparently being the case
things keep getting pushed back
directors leave things are rewritten at
the last minute and what a brothers
still seem to be unclear about what kind
of universe they're supposedly building
here and I think the initial problem is
they gave Zach Snyder free rein on Man
of Steel but more so Batman V Superman
because Christopher Nolan's not involved
in that one and because those films are
diverse --iv at best the whole thing is
struggling to find its feet the problem
is you shouldn't let the foundations of
your universe be built by a director
whose strength is composing the coolest
shot possible and that story seems
secondary you know the risk of sounding
like one of those who's all if
I was running things this is what I'd do
but if I was running things this is what
I would do or would have done I would
have thrown a bunch more money at Ben
Affleck give him complete control on the
Batman film let him work with whoever he
wants with the release date that he's
allowed to set because otherwise oh I
don't know maybe he'll leave the project
and then you're forced to scramble
around for another director which in
turn means you not only won't meet his
deadline but your own you know if what I
said then makes any sense
which it does a dog would understand
that I mean a dog with working knowledge
of the film industry obviously at least
then you've got a singular vision from a
director who values storytelling over
spectacle the most successful set of
Batman films arguably but the Burton
Schumacher series is justice it's all
over the shop
was the work of a filmmaker who was able
to build his own universe and determine
within reason the time frame of release
I'd imagine that's why we got a four
year gap between the Dark Knight and the
Dark Knight Rises I'm still surprised
though in those four years the only
title that they could think of was
adding the word rises to the name of the
previous film couldn't you pick
something else
that'd be like if Return of the Jedi was
called the Empire Strikes Back
or do they Ewoks but you know what none
of that will probably happen I'd be more
surprised if Ben Affleck came back to
direct than if you just left the project
entirely because he's been burnt by
these big budget projects before that he
didn't have creative control over like
Batman V Superman or Pearl Harbor or
daredevil let's say does leave which I
honestly believe he could the answer
might not be to reboot the series in its
entirety but if Wonder Woman is as
piss-poor as it's rumored by some to be
and Justice League turns out to be a
knockoff Avengers movie that Warner
Brothers forced Zack Snyder to make by
holding a gun to his head in a gun to
his balls then yet maybe start over or
just stop stop making these movies but
let's say those are good don't recast
Bruce Wayne just kill him or retire him
to Europe or whatever as in a different
character step into the role it's been
suggested over at forbes that the reason
army hammer has been circling a project
at DC is because he's going to be
playing Dick Grayson or Nightwing then
we can get a slightly younger character
stepping into that comically muscular
bat suit I mean it is right it's too big
it's like 60% padding what the hell are
they doing but there's been a few
amazing
Dick Grayson his Batman stories so just
do one of those and in a fuse down the
line when the anger deep inside of Ben
Affleck has simmered down and he forgets
about the time they made him to a
Turkish airline ad maybe then what her
brothers could throw him you know two
million bucks then he could cameo and
you know come in and mentor as Bruce
Wayne or whatever again though that all
depends if Wonder Woman and Justice
League are good or not because if not
they should just burn the whole thing to
the ground and start over in five years
because no director was gonna want to
make your Batman movie set in a universe
built upon a pile of burning garbage
except probably Matt G great okay let's
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