Snyder's Original Batman Plan Would've Flipped 1 Of Affleck's Biggest Roles
Zack Snyder's original plan for Ben Affleck's Batman in the Justice League sequels would have inverted his character arc from the 2001 Michael Bay movie Pearl Harbor. Following the popular release of the Snyder cut of Justice League in March 2021, the director's unproduced Justice League 2 and Justice League 3 continue to be objects of great interest. Though Warner Bros. has declared that they will not move ahead with the sequels in the wake of Zack Snyder's Justice League, speculation and curiosity about the DCEU's «SnyderVerse» continue.
Affleck's Batman was one of the key players in Snyder's DC movies, and the director had a specific arc mapped out for the character. In Snyder's original plan for his Justice League movies, Affleck's Bruce Wayne and Amy Adams's Lois Lane would have conceived a child during the period when Superman was dead. Batman would also later be instrumental in undoing the Knightmare future in the Justice League sequels and would sacrifice himself in the final battle with Darkseid. His and Lois's son, Bruce Kent, would be raised by Superman and Lois and ultimately become the new Batman 20 years later. As it turns out, this story is shockingly close to Affleck's character arc from another movie — with a notable twist.
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In Pearl Harbor, Affleck plays American pilot Rafe McCawley, who is shot down in his fighter plane while flying for the British during World War II. Believing Rafe to be dead, his best friend, Danny (Josh Hartnett), and his girlfriend, Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale), become intimate. Eventually, Rafe returns and finds them together, with Evelyn also pregnant with Danny's child, unbeknownst to him. After the attack on Pearl
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