Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jay Oliva, a storyboard artist who worked on several DC and Warner Bros. movies such as “Man of Steel,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Wonder Woman,” recently opened up to Inverse about Ben Affleck’s scrapped standalone Batman movie.
Affleck debuted as Batman in Zack Snyder’s “Dawn of Justice” and reprised the role in “Justice League.” He was developing his own Batman movie to direct and star in before deciding to exit the role. “I can’t really say too much other than it was fucking awesome,” Oliva told Inverse about Affleck’s Batman movie. “It was the best.
It was amazing. From my understanding, there were a couple of drafts of it. When I was brought on, I don’t know whether it was the second draft or something, but it was what Geoff Johns and Ben [Affleck] had shown me.” “I’ve worked on a lot of Batman things and what was really cool about it was, it was tying together a lot of really cool Batman storylines that had never been really explored,” Oliva continued. “Ben’s story was gonna cover something that had never really been covered in comics but was building off of storylines in the Batman mythos over the last 80 years and approaching it from a new kind of perspective.” Affleck said back in 2019 that he left the Batman movie because he just “couldn’t come up with a version” for the story. “I couldn’t crack it,” he added. “It was very clever and there were a lot of things about it that I really loved that I wish that had come to fruition,” Oliva said about the project. “It was a really great project in the beginning.
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