In a recent interview with Playboy Magazine actor, director and future caped crusader Ben Affleck opened up a little bit about how he is going to handle playing the iconic super hero in Zack Snyder's upcoming sequel to this summer's Man of Steel.
"I don't want to give away too much," Affleck told the magazine, which was partially transcribed by the Latino Review. "But the idea for the new Batman is to redefine him in a way that doesn't compete with the Bale and Chris Nolan Batman but still exists within the Batman canon. It will be an older and wiser version, particularly as he relates to Henry Cavill's Superman character."
Affleck admitted in the interview that he was initially very reluctant to take on the role. Not because competing with Nolan's trilogy would be difficult or because joining such a popular legacy of actors to play the super hero is a daunting task but rather because he already tried to be a super hero and hated most of it.
"If I thought the result would be another Daredevil, I'd be out there picketing myself. [laughs] Why would I make the movie if I didn't think it was going to be good and that I can be good in it?" Affleck has said in previous interviews that doing Daredevil was the most regrettable film of his career according to IGN.
"[Daredevil] just kills me. I love that story, that character, and the fact that it got f*cked up the way it did stays with me. Maybe that's part of the motivation to do Batman."
Affleck went on to discuss how he was eventually convinced to take the role as Batman saying, "When they asked if I would be Batman, I told them I don't see myself in the role and I was going to have to beg off. They said I'd fit well into how they were going to approach the character and asked me to look at what the writer-director, Zack Snyder, was doing. The stuff was incredible.
It was a unique take on Batman that was still consistent with the mythology. It made me excited. All of a sudden I had a reading of the character. When people see it, it will make more sense than it does now or even than it did to me initially."
