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Hollywoodland
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What’s worse than Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne falling for Lois Lane? That time he played Superman and slept with Martha Kent

It sounds like horrific fan fiction come to life.

Zack Snyder’s plans for the culmination of the SnyderVerse have come under either repeated fire or untold praise depending on which side of the divide you fall on, with his plans to have Ben Affleck‘s Bruce Wayne and Amy Adams’ Lois Lane hooking up one of the most questionable.

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In short, the Justice League sequels would have seen the costumed crimefighter who tried to murder the alien interloper end up falling for the woman who it was teased was carrying his child in the Snyder Cut, which is all sorts of icky. Do you know what’s even ickier, though? That time Affleck played Superman and slept with the future Martha Kent.

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2005’s Hollywoodland doesn’t get talked about very much anymore, but at the time it was a reminder that Affleck was a solid actor in the right project, whenever he wasn’t headlining terrible blockbusters and generating tabloid headlines. The two-time Academy Award winner played legendary Man of Steel actor George Reeves, with Diane Lane cast opposite him as Toni Mannix.

Of course, this was eight years before Snyder’s reboot of the comic book Kryptonian, but revisiting Hollywoodland in the aftermath of the DCU is nothing if not bizarre, particularly when you get to the scene in question and realize you’re watching the franchise’s Batman bump uglies with its Martha Kent, all while the former can regularly be seen throughout parading around in a Superman costume.

It’s like some kind of skin-crawling fan fiction come to life, but at least Snyder never came up with the idea of having Bruce dress like his deceased frenemy to then put the moves on his mom.


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