Batman V Superman : Dawn of Justice’sKnightmare sequencewas a smash with fans , but footage fromJustice League ’s Snyder Cut looks perceptibly dissimilar . Batman V Supermanwas a factious film upon acquittance , and remains one now , over four years later . As with many Zack Snyder movies though , those who loveBatman V Supermantend to really , really love it . Those that enjoyed the film be given to go away it with one big dubiousness that rose up over all : what the heck was going on during what ’s been dubbed   the " Knightmare " scene ?

In the Knightmare , Bruce Wayne has a vision while deceased of a future dystopia in which , after the death of Lois Lane , Superman fell dupe to the Anti - Life Equation concocted by Darkseid , eliminate his free will . With nothing left to live and be a hero for , Superman has adjust with Darkseid ’s forces , becoming a tyrannic lord of the Earth , and murdering those who counterbalance his normal without vacillation . course , Batman is the drawing card of a underground movement attempting to take down the Last Son of Krypton . After the Knightmare ends , Bruce is in short visit by The Flash , traveling back from the future .

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While many fans immediately see parallel to the secret plan of the then quite recent hit television gameInjustice : Gods Among Us , the Knightmare remained a heavy question mark as to what on the dot it imply for the time to come of the DCEU . Then of course of instruction Snyder leave the franchise , and his architectural plan go with him . The theatrical track ofJustice Leagueignored the Knightmare plot line , but while the Snyder Cut expands on it , it looks like in a dissimilar way , at least visually .

Justice League: The Snyder Cut Makes a Major Change to the Look of the Knightmare

buff ofBatman V Supermanwill instantly recall that the Knightmare episode ascertain in that film was very brightly lit , almost as if it was a specially sunny sidereal day out . The image was cast in a detectable reddish - orange hue as well , run to a visual look that just helped make the sequence even more memorable overall . Yet , during coup d’oeil of what ’s pretty clearly the Knightmare time full stop in the trailer forZack Snyder’sJustice League , the coloring are much less pure , and the image is much disconsolate overall than the original Knightmare scene .

One potential account for this change is that what ’s seen inJustice Leagueis at a dissimilar point in time in the Knightmare timeline than that point inBatman V Superman . With a less exacting director at the helm , one might marvel if it was a dewy-eyed continuity fault , but Snyder , despite what his knocker might allege , is someone who meticulously plot out every view of his films , especially their optic style .

For exercise , he closely matched shot fromMan of Steel ’s Metropolis battle to new scenes set concurrently with Bruce WayneinBatman V Superman , to ensure there was no discernible cue that one was wait at footage from two different films . While it ’s also insufferable that the Snyder Cut footage seen so far does n’t have a net gloss grading yet , if that ’s not the case , there ’s most definitively a specific reason why Snyder went this take issue route with the Knightmare .

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