10 Ways The DCEU Will Change Without Zack Snyder

8. Colour

Sure, it's an easy target, but it's still not wrong to say that Zack Snyder consciously chooses a muted colour palette. Nor is it wrong to say that it is a pretty divisive creative choice that a lot of people won't be unhappy to see the back of.

For some reason, Snyder's penchant for gloom has been accused of being an accident of film-making ignorance, as if he's mistakenly dulled his image and compromised his work. The reality, obviously, is that colour is a conscious brush stroke for Snyder, just as slow motion and every other aesthetic trademark he uses is. And like it or not, it DID fit the ominous tone of his movies.

That doesn't mean it's not a good thing to see it gone, though. While Tim Burton's Batman movies were about 85% black, the convention since has been for rainbow spectrums and high contrast in comic book movies (partly because of their association with summer popcorn movie release windows), and that's in no way a bad thing. There should be an element of super-reality to these films (it's why superheroes exist), and that sort of hyper-real colour scheme helps conjure that magic.