The long-gestating DC movie, The Flash, is still on course to be released next year, and editor Paul Machliss has now explained why the comic book movie blockbuster will be “worth the wait.” speaking with IBC, Machliss teased the technology that has been used to bring The Flash and its exploration of DC multiversal madness to life on the big screen.

The Flash had better be worth the wait, with the movie having been in development since as far back as the late 1980s. A solo outing for The Flash in the DC Cinematic Universe was scheduled for release in 2018. Over the years, several directors and writers, including Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Rick Famuyiwa, and John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, have signed on and dropped out, with The Flash now set to be helmed by It filmmaker Andy Muschietti. And that’s without even mentioning the various other post-production setbacks and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s gonna be exciting. I mean, Warners has charged us with making the best film we possibly can. What I can say is that we’re gonna be utilizing… We’re the first film to be utilizing some very, very new technology in terms of getting multiple versions of the same actor on the screen, rather than using either locked off cameras or even the motion controls we used in [Last Night in Soho]. There’s been a development with some wonderful technology, which I’d love to be able to talk about now, but this time next year once the film’s out, we can go into total, scrupulous detail. But that is very, very exciting and I’m very pleased to say that we’re the first, certainly on a film of this scale to utilize it. Probably why it’s taken so long to finish actually. But it’s worth the wait, because it looks fantastic.”

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Much like the MCU has now done with the likes of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Flash will introduce audiences to the DC multiverse, using the comic book arc “Flashpoint” as a major inspiration. The movie finds Barry Allen traveling back in time to prevent his mother’s murder. Again, much like the MCU, this will bring unintended consequences to his timeline, with variants of familiar characters being introduced throughout the multiversal adventure.

While “Flashpoint” will act as a starting point, The Flash is expected to be a very loose adaptation, making many substantial changes along the way. One of the major changes is the reintroduction of Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, from the Tim Burton universe, with the character featuring heavily in the movie’s plot.

Directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, The Flash stars Ezra Miller as Barry Allen, aka The Flash, Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Sasha Calle as Supergirl, and Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne aka Batman.

The Flash is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 23, 2023.