But in August, it was revealed thatBoyle had departed the project"due to creative differences."
(Cary Joji Fukunaga succeeded Boyle as director.)
In theGuardianinterview, Boyle declined to speak in detail about why he left the film.

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“What we were doing was good.
But it was obviously not what they wanted.”
News recently broke that Warner Bros. has cast him asthe new Batman.