While Affleck only had a very small role to play in the latter, both films were completely torn apart by critics when they were released in 2016, and the actor’s depressed reaction to that fact literally became a meme.
Not ignoring the elephant in the room, we can’t ignore that Ben Affleck’s time playing the Dark Knight has not received the ideal at-large response – even though both Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad did make plenty of money at the box office.
When you consider how he had previously managed to completely turn his career around directing movies like Gone Baby Gone, The Town and Argo, you can begin to understand why he may want to distance himself from the superhero franchise.