The film was eventually canned, making way for Matt Reves’ version of The Batman, which starred Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader instead. “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 had shown me.”Īffleck originally planned to write and direct the movie before stepping down as director. “From my understanding, there were a couple of drafts of it,” he recalled. “I can't really say too much other than it was fucking awesome,” said Oliva. Unfortunately, Oliva didn’t offer up any further details about what might have been. Ben had to step away for personal reasons, and I totally understood, but the time that I spent with Ben working on the project was fantastic.”Īffleck is a renowned Batman fan, and clearly invested in creating his own take on the Dark Knight that would have been deeply rooted in the comic book mythos. “It was a really great project in the beginning.

“It was very clever and there were a lot of things about it that I really loved that I wish had come to fruition,” he added. Now, it sounds as though he was involved in Affleck’s own Batman movie, too. Oliva was involved with Zack Snyder’s DCEU from the very beginning – he storyboarded Man of Steel as well as Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.

“But was building off of storylines in the Batman mythos over the last 80 years and approaching it from a new kind of perspective.” “Ben's story was gonna cover something that had never really been covered in comics,” he said.

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