Ben Affleck appeared on the latest episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and called the reshoots for “Justice League” the “low point of my career.”
\n\nWarner Bros. infamously replaced director Zack Snyder with Joss Whedon to overhaul the movie after Snyder needed to pause work due to his daughter’s death. Snyder estimated in a recent interview with Variety that Whedon’s reshoots covered 60 new pages of material. The end product resulted in a critical and commercial misfire for Warner Bros. Whedon was later accused by “Justice League” actor Gal Gadot of threatening her on set, claims of which he denied.
\n\n“The experience of ‘Justice League’ was so negative for lots of different reasons, some of which have to do with where I was at personally and some of which had to do with the tragedy that happened at that time,” Affleck said. “I saw how not to make a movie like that, which is where the studio is at odds with the filmmaker. You are really making a mistake. I was really glad and gratified that Zack got to release [his version via the Snyder Cut]. That was fucking great. I was really happy for him. That was shitty…
Original source: https://variety.com/