What was Ben Affleck's script for The Batman like? According to Jay Olivia, it was "f****** awesome."
When it comes to storyboarding a DC movie, Jay Olivia has put in the work. He worked on Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Wonder Woman. In a new interview with Inverse, Olivia has shared some thoughts on the film.
"I can't really say too much other than it was fucking awesome," Oliva told Inverse. "It was the best. It was amazing."
Olivia was brought on to the film after it was already in active development. "From my understanding, there were a couple of drafts of it," said Oliva. "When I was brought on, I don't know whether it was the second draft or something, but it was what Geoff Johns and Ben [Affleck] had shown me."
He went on to add, "I've worked on a lot of Batman things and what was really cool about it was, it was tying together a lot of really cool Batman storylines that had never been really explored. Ben's story was gonna cover something that had never really been covered in comics but was building off of storylines in the Batman mythos over the last 80 years and approaching it from a new kind of perspective."
Olivia concluded by saying, It was a really great project in the beginning. Ben had to step away for personal reasons, and I totally understood, but the time that I spent with Ben working on the project was fantastic. Maybe someday I can spill the beans, but I still can't talk about it."
Since his departure from the film, the project was handed over to Matt Reeves and became a completely different project that just kept the title of The Batman.
