Justice League, the super-super hero movie is making feeble headway at the box office. With an assembled team of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg, it is one of the most expensive movies every made and will have to retrieve $600 million to break even. Starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill it has been trashed by many critics, getting only two out of five stars from Rotten Tomatoes and being described as “an embarrassment.” Even the fans have stayed away. Part of the problem appears to have been a chaotic production with frantic rewrites and re-shoots along the way and the loss of the director Zack Snyder after his 20-year-old daughter committed suicide in March.
Principal Photography started on 11 April 2016 when there was a usually successful Jupiter trine Pluto. But clearly it couldn’t outweigh the muddle, guddle and setbacks of a Mutable T Square (windmill in a storm) of Mars Saturn opposition Moon square Jupiter opposition Neptune. Plus an over-revved, crisis-prone Sun Uranus in Aries square Pluto – which hinted at disruptions and upheavals ahead.
Ben Affleck, 15 August 1972 2.53 am Berkeley, CA, is a confident Sun Leo trine Jupiter in Sagittarius. But his Jupiter opposes Saturn making him hate failure and that Jupiter is being damped down by tr Saturn at the moment. So not a happy camper. What’s ahead for him in the immediate future looks awash with questions marks, domestic woes, and a couple of years of career inertia in 2019/20 with tr Neptune conjunct his midheaven. But he’s got a sterling career behind him in acting and directing as well as his charity work so the odd blip won’t derail him.
Henry Cavill, 5 May 1983, is a determined Sun Mars in Taurus with a hard-edged Pluto Saturn conjunction. His starry Venus opposition Neptune in Sagittarius is getting rained on at the moment again by tr Saturn; and he’s also facing a tough slog in 2018/19 with tr Pluto trine his Mars and tr Uranus opposing his Pluto Saturn, which will shake him up and stick him at the same time. By 2020 he’ll be wreathed in smiles again.