When Ben Affleck was announced as the new Batman in the still untitled
Man of Steel sequel, I was one of the few who was on the more positive side. Affleck is a good actor, but the bigger risk (at least where I stand) was the production design. One of the more common complaints about
Man of Steel was how drab the Superman outfit looked, so it's been up in the air what the new Batman would look like. Well, today Zach Snyder himself tweeted the answer:
I like it. Warner Bros. has finally moved past the black body armor look of Burton & Nolan for something a bit closer to the comics. In particular, this is almost a direct translation of the batsuit from Frank Miller's seminal
Dark Knight Returns. I'm worried that this means that the antagonism between Batman and Superman from that book will carry over here, but with
Justice League announced maybe it'll be good for them to get it out of the way here. Doing away with body armor also means that Affleck is going to have a wider range of movement, so Batman will actually be able to bust out his martial arts skills as opposed to relying more on gadgets as has been the norm in the movies.
My only real complaints are about the batsymbol. Not so much that it's too fat, that's fine, but that it doesn't stand out much from the rest of his chest. That's one thing the yellow oval the symbol used to have helped with, but it's something that can just as easily be fixed by coloring the batsymbol differently. Which is the other thing, this is a black & white photo. So what is the suit's actual color scheme? My guess is that it's the classic black & grey to stay close to
DKR and help him contrast with Superman.
As for the Batmobile there? Can't say, not enough it is in this picture for me to comment.
