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Variety: Ben Affleck steps down as director of 'The Batman'
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Sho_Nuff82
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The fuck am I reading
Chances are they will have to be on set with Jared "Doing too much" Leto
bigboss370
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I'm not seeing how this is a bad thing?
RareFantasy64
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Maybe Zack Snyder will become the director?
Dash_Riprock
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I bet this time he sends his co-stars used condoms as gag.
Galactic Specter
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Pull the fucking trigger
greendomo's ghost
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They need a big name director to confirm this narrative, and not someone low tier that gives the impression Affleck is just trying to limit the damage to his career by doing the minimum he's contractually obliged to do. Kinda surprised they didn't hold off announcement until they had a replacement.
After watching Suicide Squad and reading all the shit he was doing, how someone didn't jaw jack him i will never know. It would be one thing if he was a major part of the movie and did well. But his scenes were just bad.
torre_avenue
Banned
3, but I mean, it's not like Marvel hasn't had its fair share of dropped directors.
Branagh didn't want to come back for Thor 2.
Patty Jenkins turned down Thor 2, as well.
The whole Edgar Wright fiasco.
Rupert Wyatt dropped "Gambit."
It happens, largely because of things like budget, creative limits, or timing.
Glass Rebel
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Don't do this to me, Bobby.
Prototype Viktor
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Uwe coming out of retirement
tkscz
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fixed
Father_Brain
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When is Aquaman supposed to start production?
Ninja Scooter
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It's going to take multiple of these movies outright tanking to lead to a reboot. As long as they continue making money WB will just be content tweaking and tweaking hoping to hit that right formula within the existing universe. They are way too invested now.
His time is now
He's busy not flushing his career down the drain.
VeryGooster
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People want these genre filmmakers but I bet they get like the director of the Ride Along movies or something.
broncobuster
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Spring, I want to say. They were doing a table read earlier this week.
I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but I bet they get Brett Ratner to direct this movie.
Thought it started already.
Isn't it really two. They never announced a director for Flash before the latest one dropped out. It was reported someone was attached (the one that was working on a script from the treatment Lord and Miller did) but we'll never know how true it was because there was never an official statement of him directing and then not directing. So I count two. Flash's director and Ben taking a step down after trying to do it all on not just one film but two back to back and it likely getting to him in addition to his marriage issues.
How Affleck saying he can't do all of this at once, in regard to a film that has no release date or an official filming date and script still being written, is WB's fault is something I completely don't understand. Flash might be their fault but if they thought they and the director were seeing eye to eye enough to officially announce him as the director and then at the end they weren't that that's debatable.
Jeffolation
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It's been diminishing returns with Affleck directing himself and I hope the next time he directs something he's only behind the camera. And as others have mentioned if JL doesn't perform this whole universe is probably kaput.
Dash_Riprock
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Nah, they'll get McG.
Sibersk Esto
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Oh god
what if it's DAVID YATES
what if it's DAVID YATES
VeryGooster
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TheGreatDirector
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It's over.
brandonh83
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Then okay, if it's as good as his Potter and Fantastic Beasts work
You'd end up with something wayyyy better than what we've gotten I'll tell you that right now.
Damn you for now making me want this.
yyyyyyup.
They should get a TV director. TV directors know how to slide into someone else's universe to tell a story without putting up a fuss about making it their own.
Dash_Riprock
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It'll be thoroughly mediocre and forgettable, which would make it a MASSIVE step up from current DCEU films.
MHWilliams
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Yates said he's sticking with Fantastic Beasts until the end, right?
Matt Reeves is a good choice.
Gambit is Fox, not Marvel.
Also, Branagh never agreed to sign on to direct Thor 2.
What did he mean by this?
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Benny mustve convinced his boy Fincher to take it on
R-right?
;____;
Damn being a DC fan is hard
Edit: Oh, he's planning to co-direct, which is strange but should be in the title
R-right?
;____;
Damn being a DC fan is hard
Edit: Oh, he's planning to co-direct, which is strange but should be in the title
Good news. I would love it to be Snyder but it won't be because the world is unfair.
I seriously think Ben needs a break. Dude must be exhausted from all the shit going on in his life, his failed movie, and all the work he's putting in only to see it go up in flames.
Stay strong Ben.
I seriously think Ben needs a break. Dude must be exhausted from all the shit going on in his life, his failed movie, and all the work he's putting in only to see it go up in flames.
Stay strong Ben.
Galactic Specter
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Being a DC movie fan is hard, they've been doing well on every other front.
Bobby Roberts
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Nah, they've been signaling hesitance/reticence to move forward for awhile now. They own these characters outright, and have Harry Potter (and the already out-of-continuity Shazam) they can use to fill in these slots on the roster. They could continue to essentially Chumbucket their busted ride as it's they try driving it across the wasteland, but I don't think, if Justice League ends up at or below BvS's take, that they're going to pursue that.
Flash just got sent back for a "page-one rewrite"
Batman no longer has a director.
Man of Steel 2 doesn't even exist anymore, really.
Aquaman is supposed to somehow be DARKER than what we've already gotten, and it's supposed to start shooting this summer, after I believe having its start date pushed back once already.
The studio is probably gonna undergo a shakeup itself, and the handling of its superhero side is going to be a decent aspect of that.
Nobody's particularly happy with what's going on.
broncobuster
Banned
Speaking of Gambit, Doug Liman left it and joined on to Justice League Dark aka Dark Universe. But I can also see Warners shifting him onto Batman given his experience and schedule. Not sure how I'd feel about it; he's hit or miss.
ElBoxyBrown
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Fuck it, Snyder come save us. Bring us deeper into the depths of hell. This train ain't stoppin. The brakes are unfortunately broken.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuu It's perfect.... 😨
Ninja Scooter
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In that case drain the swamp.
It's the NeoGaf OT talking about the DCEU. It doesn't make sense a lot of the time.
I mean as said he just did a film he directed, wrote, and stared in. It didn't do well so instead for the next one he just focuses on staring and maybe still writing (unlikely he was giving that his full attention) and let someone else direct. This is him possibly learning from a mistake and doing what might be best for the film so there isn't a repeat on his end.
Yet that results in the DCEU is DOOM!!! WB is fucking up!!
WTF!?
Poor GRIMES
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An uninspired and forgettable DC movie sounds pretty good right now.
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