10 Biggest Mistakes The DCEU Has Ever Made

Though it's certainly sensible to have some executive oversight on a gigantic movie universe that costs $200 million a pop, there's also a difference between shepherding your filmmakers in the right direction and constantly neutering their vision.

The DCEU has been harangued by meddling from the bigwigs almost from the jump - Batman v Superman famously had roughly 30 minutes cut from its runtime by nervous executives, who craved a shorter length while sacrificing much of the story's internal logic.

Meanwhile on Suicide Squad they basically took the movie away from director David Ayer during post-production and had a trailer house produce their own fast-paced, music-filled cut of the film.

Elsewhere they went to war with Patty Jenkins on Wonder Woman, forcing her to fight hard to keep the iconic No Man's Land scene, and after Batman v Superman was criticised for being too dour, they mandated that Justice League be a lighter, Marvel-esque affair.

Then there's everything that followed with Justice League once Zack Snyder was swapped out for Joss Whedon: namely demanding a two-hour runtime and making the extremely ill-advised choice to digitally remove Henry Cavill's Superman mustache rather than delay the film to shoot his new scenes.

Though in recent years Warner Bros. seems to have stepped back and more-or-less let filmmakers do their thing, their over-cautious, indecisive approach in the early going cost them dearly, resulting in projects that felt wildly uneven or depressingly sanitised (if not both).