The Flashmovie will reportedly reveal the future plans for the DC cinematic universe and “lend clarity” to the future of theJustice League. This revelation was buried within the recent report regarding thecancellation of both New Gods and The Trench, and while it remains a mystery how exactlyThe Flashwill pave the way for the future, it is likely related to The Scarlet Speedster’s exploration of the multiverse.
The report states thatThe Flashwill set up DC’s “new status quo,” and help make sense of the studio’s somewhat messy shared universe that revolves around their superhero ensembleJustice League. While not much has been officially revealed, it is expected thatThe Flashmovie will take inspiration from the comic book arcThe Flashpoint Paradox, which sees the Fastest Man Alive travel back in time in an attempt to save his mother, who was murdered during Barry Allen’s childhood.
As is so often the case with these time travel misadventures, Barry’s meddling finds him emerging in a much bleaker alternate universe in which the Amazons and Atlanteans are involved in an all-out war that has left the planet destroyed. This alternate version of the DC universe finds Bruce Wayne dead, killed at the hands of the same criminal who murders his parents in the original timeline, which leads to Thomas Wayne taking up the mantle of Batman, and applying his own, more violent tactics.
Though it is currently unknown how closelyThe Flashwill follow the source material, it is worth noting that, following theFlashpointarc, the DC universe was reset and rebranded as “The New 52”. This is certainly an approach that the upcomingFlashmovie could similarly take, essentially resetting the cinematic universe and thus allowing the studio to make whatever changes they deem necessary following the now scrappedSnyderVerse.
Another detail that has since been revealed regarding the DC cinematic universe is that director Matt Reeves’The Batmanwill be set on Earth-2, meaning that theDCEUwill end up with several shared universes all happening at once, but separately from each other. DC currently have several projects in the pipeline, includingBlack Adam,Shazam! Fury of the Gods,Blue Beetle,Supergirl,Green Lantern CorpsandStatic Shock, as well as aZatannaproject, a thirdWonder Womanmovie, and J.J. Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates’Superman. How any of these will tie into each other is largely a mystery at this stage, but it should certainly prove interesting to see how the studio plans to bring it all together.
The Flashdirector Andy Muschietti has previously teased the scope of the movie saying that it “will take you to a place where the DC Universe hasn’t gone before,” so expect some major changes to the DCEU going forward.
After what seems like an eternity of back and forth, with so many director dropouts and stalls that you’d need to be as fast as The Scarlet Speedster to keep up,The Flashis finally happening, and is scheduled to hit screens on November 4th, 2022. Ezra Miller will reprise the title role alongside Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton as different iterations ofBatman, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, andThe Young and the Restlessstar Sasha Calle who has signed on to play Supergirl. This comes to us courtesy ofThe Hollywood Reporter.
