In a recent interview with The New York Times, Ben Affleck revealed that it was his hate for a previous superhero film he did that made him want to play Batman even more.
When Warner Bros. initially approached Affleck to play Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the actor stated:
“That’s the movie I want to do. I want to be a part of that.”
He then went into further detail and mentioned 2003’s Daredevil, going as far as saying he hated it:
“Part of it was I wanted for once to get one of these movies and do it right – to do a good version. I hate Daredevil so much.”
He added:
“It frustrated me. The Netflix show does really cool stuff. I feel like that was there for us to do with that character, and we never kind of got it right. I wanted to do one of those movies and sort of get it right.”
The 2003 film was actually in the news last month, when we exclusively reported on Charlie Cox and Elden Henson (stars of the Netflix series) defending the film at a recent convention. Cox said:
“I actually really, really liked the film and thought Ben Affleck did a really good job. I think the film is tonally a bit confused [but] I actually really enjoyed it. I think that if you make Spider-Man, and I don’t know much about the other characters to be honest, but if you make Spider-man, for example, you can make a movie for kids and adults and it can have that kind of humor because I think it’s true to the characters for the most part. Daredevil needs to be on a platform like Netflix because the source material is so dark and so complicated and so sinister at times. I think what benefited us so much was that Netflix wanted to make the show with Marvel and we were able to embrace those darker tones.”
Henson added:
“Just so everyone knows out there – it’s not easy to make a movie. It’s really hard. No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody. I think they were [just] making these types of superhero things in a much different way back then.”
You can check out Ben Affleck’s full interview below.