{"id":27104,"date":"2012-08-09T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T07:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=27104"},"modified":"2012-08-09T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T11:49:45","slug":"ben-affleck-wanted-to-direct-justice-league-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/ben-affleck-wanted-to-direct-justice-league-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck wanted to direct Justice League movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27105\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27105\" title=\"TOWN-image-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3-616x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3-616x410.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Affleck in 2010&#8217;s The Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ben Affleck, whose previous superhero contributions are limited to playing Matt Murdoch in 2003&#8217;s <em>Daredevil<\/em>, is right at the top of Warner Bros&#8217; list to direct their Justice League movie, which is expected to dovetail with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/5-things-we-learnt-from-the-man-of-steel-trailer\/\">Zack Snyder&#8217;s Superman reboot <em>Man Of Steel<\/em><\/a> and whatever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/christopher-nolan-no-justice-league-and-no-batman-reboot\/\">post-Christopher Nolan<\/a> form the <em>Batman<\/em> franchise takes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/ben-affleck-on-justice-league-his-camp-says-no\/#utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">According to <em>Deadline<\/em><\/a> though, Affleck already turned down the project a couple of days ago, although he might meet with them to hear them out (and possibly to ask why they&#8217;ve announced that they want him to direct it, despite him already telling them no).<\/p>\n<p>Bearing in mind his fantastic urban crime dramas <em>Gone Baby Gone<\/em> and <em>The Town<\/em>, it&#8217;s a shame he can&#8217;t be convinced to take on the next phase of Batman for Warner Bros, or perhaps even help Fox out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/daredevil-reboot-to-be-directed-by-a-teams-joe-carnahan\/\">their <em>Daredevil<\/em> jam<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\/director Ben Affleck is reported to have turned down Warner Bros&#8217; offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[103,2716,288,1824,2145,1953],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TOWN-image-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}