Ben Affleck’s Abandoned Batman Movie Would Have Been A Dark Journey Into Arkham Asylum
By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2019 8:30 am EST
Batman Begins is the only Batman movie that used Arkham Asylum in a significant way. But since that movie took place only as Batman was just beginning his career the protector of Gotham City, we never really got to see what it was like when the rogues gallery of Batman’s most dangerous villains was inside of it. That would have made for something entirely different than we’ve seen from Batman before. But it never moved forward since the script never got to a point where it satisfied everyone.
“Well, he was going more into the insanity aspects. So I think you would’ve seen something a little darker than what we’ve seen in the past and more into the individual, who was inside Batman – what element may be sane and what element may actually not be sane. So he was entering into a little more of the Arkham, as you know, he’s going into where you keep everyone who was bad…it was very fascinating to go to the darker side of Batman.”
Honestly, I’m a little bummed that Ben Affleck never truly got to realize his vision for what Batman could be. While some didn’t like his approach to the character, for me, it was one of the few parts that actually worked well in Zack Snyder’s approach to the DC Extended Universe. This grizzled, experienced Batman gave us a version of the hero we hadn’t seen on the big screen before, and it would have been rather interesting to explore the psychological side of that character in a movie inside Arkham Asylum.
Anyway, we’ve still got The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson, set for June 25, 2021.
