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When they called cut, I turned my back for a second, only to hear a voice from behind me saying, “hello.” I turned around and saw it was none other than Ben Affleck, in his full Batsuit, minus the cowl (he still had black makeup around his eyes) who came to say hello to me and the other journos. Soon, we started asking him questions and when he started giving very friendly, interesting, in-depth answers, we all turned on our tape records and got ourselves an impromptu, twenty minute interview.

On the fights scenes in BvS and whether that style will be used in JUSTICE LEAGUE.

We have the same guys who choreographed – who came up with those. I’d like to say it was my idea but I just do what they tell me. The same guys from visual fx to practical stunts. They come up with really creative, cool ideas – this is gonna be the same way I’ll approach it when I’m directing, which is to say find a great stunt coordinator, great effect guys and stunt guys who can execute this stuff and put you in their hands and let them do it – it’s like getting a great composer, it’s almost a separate thing. It it works it feels like it’s flawlessly integrated. How could STAR WARS exist without that music.

On being an executive producer on JUSTICE LEAGUE.
Well, why I’m an executive producer is because I’m directing another one – so there’s some cross pollination and story and characters. I don’t want to give any of that stuff away , but it just basically means there might be some stuff in my Batman that are effected… It’s a creative way DC came up with both as being a filmmaker driven company and entity and also making sure that the right hand knows what the left hand is doing and there’s collaboration and supervision so that somebody doesn’t go sailing off and creating problems with your movie. I get to weigh in on stuff that effects Batman.

On Geoff Johns
He’s a brilliant guy. There’s nobody one that knows more about comic books, and has great taste and is really super smart and super nice. And Jon Berg has a big role but really this is Zack’s movie and we’re executing Zack’s vision.

On Batman being a detective.
The whole detective aspect of Batman is more present in this story than in the last one and would probably be expanded upon further in a Batman movie that I would direct. All Batman movies at their heart are detective stories they feel a little bit like noir movies in a way.. somehow feels like THE MALTESE FALCON, at their heart detective stories. And the detective story here is the how do I find these people and bring them together aspect...“

How do you bring Batman back from the edge?
(on BVS) That was very heavily influenced by Dark Knight Returns, This has other influences I don’t want to name because then it will give away story elements and stuff like that. Working with Terrio and Geoff Johns and obviously Zack, we steal the best stuff we can from all the great material out there. But you know, one of the things is this is now not the guy at the end of his rope but in a way a guy at the beginning, starting over, finding hope. The thing that he is hoping for and hanging on to is this group and that starts him off and that’s his mission here. Obviously that’s something different.This is not a guy that’s nihilistic. He believes that something needs to happen and he’s in the awkward position of being the guy out there with the cup in his hand trying to say, ‘listen – believe in this!’“

Biggest change from BvS
There’s definitely room for more humor. It’s not going to be…DC movies are I think by the nature still a little bit more Gothic or mythic then some comic book movies are. But that movie was a really dark, heavy movie that was rooted in Dark Knight Returns, which was a heavy, dark book and this is not that. This an an evolution from that, bringing together these characters who’s had their origins and it’s about hope and working together and the kind of conflicts you have with working together. It’s this world with all these other superheroes, So there’s comedy that goes into that, trying to work with other people, and the idea of people working together to accomplish the same goal is the root of all comedy in my view, so there’s definitely an opening for some fun it it, but it’s still recognizably these characters…

With all the mother-boxes, parademons – is there a notion Batman is “too old for this shit”?
It’s not so much, 'I’m too old for this shit’ but rather I NEED HELP, this guy is way out of his league, it’s definitely stepping up to that level from the comic books where there are things from other planets, all these super-villains that are way more powerful that the average human who had a batarang and a grappling hook can deal with. So we explore what these other heroes can do. You want to be able to use the powers of Flash, and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, where you have to have bad guys that are, ya know, give them to opportunity to get their cars out on the track and hit the accelerator a little bit.

On Batman being the leader…
Aquaman is a very strong character played by a very strong actor with a very strong personality, so he’s not a guy who has anytime in his life to take orders from people. He’s got a kind of strong, stubborn, powerful energy, so it’s not like any of these characters show up and immediately go like, 'yes, sir – what should I do Mr. Wayne?’ It’s about getting very disparate people who are used to being powerful to try and work together and it’s about how hard that is. There are some characters who really hit it off with each other and some that don’t and almost come to blows, and it’s about trying to tame that kind of energy.

On Batman being violent or deadly.
Yeah, definitely in the last movie Batman went to a very dark place that was rooted in trauma that occurred to people that he loved and worked with and what he saw. This really is not about that issue for him so much anymore, he’s no longer sort of extreme in that way, he’s kind of, from the experiences of the last movie, hes sort of learned some things, I think and is now… I’m trying to say without giving any spoilers… but he’s wanting to redeem himself and he’s wanting mankind to be redeemed, and he’s wanting to make the world better, having learned lessons that were important in the last movie.