With the Oscar buzz around Affleck growing ("Best Picture", "Best Director" and "Best Actor" have all been mentioned) Deadline had chance to catch up with the former superhero and asked him about missing out on the chance to direct Warner Bros new Superman movie and just how tempted he'd be to take on a project of that size in future.
"The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money. With Superman, I think they’re going to do a great version. Chris Nolan is brilliant and they’ve got a great director for it."
I’ve love to do something like Blade Runner, but a lesson I’ve learned is to not look at movies based on budget, how much they’ll spend on effects, or where they will shoot. Story is what’s important. Also, there are a lot of guys ahead of me on the list to do epic effects movies.
I'm not sure how many of you saw
The Town, but it was probably the best movie I've seen this year and excellently directed by Affleck. Despite his dodgy performance as Daredevil a few years back, I would have loved to of seen him in the directors chair of
The Man of Steel. What do you think? Be sure to share your thoughts in the usual place!
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