United Kingdom, Dec. 23 -- Steven Spielberg refused to make a movie with Ben Affleck because the actor had made his son cry.

Screenwriter Mike Binder has told how he wrote 2006's Man About Town under the belief that the Jurassic Park filmmaker would be at the helm and release it through his Dreamworks company, but Spielberg dropped the project when he found out the Good Will hunting star was on board to play a Hollywood agent.

Mike said on Stephen Baldwin's One Bad Movie podcast: "He said, 'We gotta do something together. I want you to write something for me.'

"At the time, we both lived up in the Palisades, and we were talking about power and struggles, and also he was going through a thing where there was a guy who broke into his hou...