From then on, each Batman entry from Joel Schumacher's 1997 'Batman Forever' to Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises' included at least two opposing forces to Bruce Wayne. Its 1992 follow-up 'Batman Returns,' however, punched up the villain count to three with Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), The Penguin (Danny DeVito), and Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) taking the stage. This trend began following Tim Burton's 1989 'Batman,' which only featured Jack Nicholson's Joker and his band of goons as the antagonists. to make him seem as impressive as I felt there was the opportunity to do.' And if Affleck's vision for the film is anything to go off of, Deathstroke would have certainly been impressive, to put it lightly.įor the majority of Batman's live-action theatrical releases, the character has always been accompanied by more than one member of his rogues gallery. The 'Gone Girl' star adds that honing in on Slade Wilson specifically would have helped amp up the intimidating vision he had for the iconic DC assassin, commenting that he planned '. Or you have to really sort of populate kind of, you know, Injustice – these big group villains – where you have to get all these different characters.' either you do a kind of massive one villain that is so formidable you just can't imagine how your protagonist is going to be able to overcome it.

'And, the plans were to make interesting, nuanced, complex characters.

'There were a number of them that I was kind of exploring,' the 'Argo' star explains. When asked about his plans with Deathstroke during a Q&A session at Zack Snyder's Full Circle Event, Affleck revealed why he went with a solo villain outing as opposed to a gathering of Dark Knight adversaries.

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