Ben Affleck Reveals Why He's an Executive Producer on 'Justice League'
Speaking with Collider, Ben Affleck has given us some insight into why he is now acting under the title of executive producer alongside his various roles in the DCEU.
“Why I’m an executive producer is that I’m directing one of the movies. So there’s sort of this cross pollination of story and characters and I don’t want to give any of that stuff away, but it basically means that there are some things that might happen in my Batman that are affected by I mean, here we are in the police station in Gotham City. There’s a potential that something like this might exist in that story.”
The film that Affleck is referring to is the standalone Batman film that he'll be directing, and is also co-writing with Geoff Johns. “So it’s a creative way that DC came up with of kind of being a filmmaker-driven company and entity and also making sure that the right hand knows what the left hand is doing and so that there’s collaboration and supervision.
"So that somebody doesn’t go sailing off, causing problems for your movie with their movie. You know, in a way, it’s also a kind of a courtesy. You know what they’re doing, one hand knows what the other is doing, and I get to weigh in on stuff that impacts the Batman stuff.”
It's a vague reason given that James Wan and Rick Famuyiwa, directors for Aquaman and The Flash respectively, aren't carrying executive producing titles.
Source: Collider
