If you thought you were watching the cinema version of Justice League was painful, imagine what it was like to do it.

Ben Affleck, the film’s Batman, revealed how brutal the experience was in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. Explain why he ended up moving away from the solo Batman movie he had to both star in and direct – a project that ultimately turned into Matt Reeves’ one. The batman with Robert Pattinson – Affleck said he realized he “wasn’t going to be happy doing this” and ended up stepping away from the world of DC Comics.

And it all boiled down to Justice League, which Affleck called the “nadir” of his time working in what he recently dubbed “IP movies.” And he had more negative things to say about the experience from there, although he admitted that the issues weren’t entirely the movie itself:

It was a bad experience because of a confluence of things: my own life, my divorce, being too far away, competing agendas and then [director] Zack [Snyder]the personal tragedy of [Snyder’s daughter Autumn died by suicide in 2017] and the resumption of fire. It was just the worst experience. It was horrible. It was everything I didn’t like about it. It became the moment when I said, “I don’t do this anymore. It’s not even, for example, that Justice League was so bad. Because it could have been anything.

Snyder ended up leaving Justice League mid-production, with Avengers Writer / Director Joss Whedon takes his place and wraps up the film. It was her cut that ended up being released as Justice League in the fall of 2017, and it was this cut that bombarded critics and the public. The whole situation finally came to a happy ending when Snyder was able to return and direct a much longer version of the material like Zack Snyder Justice League, which released on HBO Max last year.

The batman is set to open in theaters on March 4, 2022. And then Affleck will reprise his role as Batman in the upcoming Flash next november. Something tells me this will be his last time as a Dark Knight. Just a hunch.