Steven Spielberg once refused to direct Ben Affleck in a film, filmmaker Mike Binder claims.
While appearing on a recent episode of Stephen Baldwin’s “One Bad Movie” podcast, Binder, 67, said that he and Spielberg, 79, had been in talks for the latter to direct Man About Town, which hit theaters in 2006 and starred Affleck, 53, as a hotshot Hollywood agent.
“He said, ‘We gotta do something together. I want you to write something for me,'” Binder said of Spielberg. “At the time, we both lived up in the Palisades, and we were talking about power and struggles.”
Binder said that Spielberg initi...
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