Joe Manganiello just goes ahead and says all the cool bad guy stuff he would have done in Ben Affleck's Batman movie

This is per Entertainment Weekly, reporting on portions of Manganiello’s new memoir Bloodlines, which apparently goes into some detail about how he would have been the primary villain of the Batfleck film. (Something Affleck himself confirmed several years back.) In said description, the Magic Mike favorite says his Slade Wilson would have been subjecting Affleck’s Bruce Wayne to “a superhero version of David Fincher’s The Game,” dismantling the hero’s life in order to bring the Bat down for good. That apparently included killing J.K. Simmons’ swole Commissioner Gordon, taking Jeremy Irons’ Alfred hostage, and getting into it with Batgirl, although EW notes that it’s not clear if this would have been the same version of the character that wound up getting buried in a tomb by Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav a few years later.

Manganiello says that, while that all sounded pretty cool to him, he did ask Affleck if he wasn’t biting off a bit more than he could chew by writing, directing, producing, and starring in a massive superhero blockbuster on this scale. Affleck apparently told him “Don’t worry, you’re in good hands. You’re in good hands, man”—which is fascinating, in so far as Affleck has since acknowledged that he was struggling heavily with alcohol at the time, and told The New York Times a few years back that a friend he showed the script to told him “you’ll drink yourself to death” if he actually tried to make the movie.