In a relatively low-key move, DC and Warner Brothers have announced that Zack Snyder will, in fact, be directing their future “Justice League” movie, due to premiere sometime after 2015. While this is relatively unsurprising, it sets in stone a few things for the DC movie-verse:

1. It will be under the creative control of Zack Snyder and David S. Goyer, who has written the scripts of “Man of Steel” and “Superman vs. Batman,” as well as contributing to the Batman Nolanverse. Unlike Marvel, who has Kevin Feige at the helm behind-the-scenes, planning and organizing before passing his web down to individual directors, these two will have total creative control. Is this bad? Not necessarily. It means a lot less complexity and a lot more consistency. Those can be good or bad, depending on how this next movie hits with audiences.

2. DC will be taking its properties much more slowly than Marvel has been. If they are set on using one director for all of their properties (as this implies), it means that there need to be a few years between each movie– no chance of two or three stand-alone films between each team up. Each movie will have to really build off the other, which means:

3. Wonder Woman? Probably not getting a solo movie any time soon. Neither will Batman, though he’s already had three in the past few years, and is headlining this next DC project.

4. I don’t have a clue how DC plans to move their universe forward from this Justice League movie. After The Avengers, we had three solo movies dealing with the fallout and repercussions for each of our heroes, PLUS a brand new property to be introduced. DC can’t do that, so what comes afterwards? Another Superman movie? Finally that Wonder Woman movie? If they’ve only got room for one or two movies between each Justice League film, will they bother introducing new characters, or pick 2 characters out of their lineup that they consider “most important?” Or create more “teamup” films that feature two big names. We’ll have to see. Marvel’s formula has worked thus far, and they plan to keep it working through 2028. We have no proof DC’s will fail, but it seems odd to break a formula that’s worked so well for the competition.