But if
American Psycho author
Bret Easton Ellis is to be believed, fans may want to temper their expectations. According to Ellis, Affleck’s
The Batman script is a total mess. And even worse, he claims Warner Bros. doesn’t care to bother fixing it.
Ellis’ thoughts on Affleck’s
The Batman come as part of a larger story by
The Ringer about the current state and future of the movie industry. Here’s Ellis on Batman:
"I was having dinner with a couple of executives who know other executives who are working on the [forthcoming] Batman movie, The Batman. And they were just telling me that there are serious problems with the script. And that the executives I was having dinner with were complaining about people who work on the Batman movie. And they just said they went to the studio and they said, ‘Look, the script is … Here’s 30 things that are wrong with it that we can fix.’ And [the executives] said, ‘We don’t care. We don’t really care. The amount of money we’re going to make globally, I mean 70 percent of our audience is not going to be seeing this in English. And it doesn’t really matter, these things that you’re bringing up about the flaws of the script.’ So I do think global concerns play a big part in how movies, and what movies, are being made, obviously."