A New Costume
For the first time in modern movie history, Batman will be wearing a predominantly grey costume. Don’t worry though – if that’s invoking images of Adam West’s Batman get-up, it’s going to be absolutely nothing like that.
Ben Affleck’s Batman will be wearing a costume very reminiscent of the one seen in Frank Miller's brilliant 1986 miniseries The Dark Knight Returns. It truly is classic Batman and fans were rightly impressed by it when the first full-colour reveal occurred.
Past versions (Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale) have all worn almost exclusively black costumes (with mixed receptions, depending on the style) and this new grey live action version has received almost universal praise.
At the very least, should Affleck’s performance end up being critically panned (which isn’t expected to be the case now), he’ll be panned whilst looking good and nobody will be able to say that his aesthetics as Batman weren’t executed perfectly.
