In a lengthy new profile on the behind-the-scenes drama that led to Zack Snyder exiting Justice League only to get the unprecedented chance to release his original version of the film, the Snyder Cut, on HBO Max, the director reveals that he had intricate plans for Ben Affleck’s Batman to have a very conflicting love interest until Warner Bros. shot it down. While it’s unclear whether the romantic tension between Affleck’s Batman and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was a pivot that Snyder made to appease the studio or if it was a subplot that Joss Whedon added when he took over Justice League, Snyder has opened up for the first time about his love story that would’ve seen Bruce Wayne picking up Amy Adams‘ Lois Lane on the rebound following the death of Henry Cavill’s Superman. Via Vanity Fair, which says that this idea got the “nix” from Warner Bros.: