In true The Flash style, the upcoming DC movie will arrive a little quicker than expected. If you don’t count all the delays and pushbacks, that is. While the DC outing had been initially scheduled for release June 23, 2023, The Flash will now speed his way into theaters a week earlier on June 16, 2023.
Of course, audiences have been waiting for far too long to see The Flash lead his own adventure on the big screen. The comic book movie project has been in development since as far back as the late 1980s, with the more contemporary DC Cinematic Universe version suffering all manner of director departures, various delays, and controversy surrounding its lead actor during its tumultuous journey into theaters.
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The Flash now set to be helmed by It filmmaker Andy Muschietti and, much like the MCU has 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. The movie will take inspiration from the comic book arc “Flashpoint” and finds Barry Allen traveling back in time to prevent his mother’s murder. Unfortunately, as is so often the case when messing with time and the multiverse, this will bring unintended consequences to his timeline, with variants of familiar characters being introduced throughout the multiversal adventure.
“It’s gonna be exciting. I mean, Warners has charged us with making the best film we possibly can,” The Flash editor Paul Machliss said recently of the DC outing. “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.”
Michael Keaton Returns as Batman in The Flash
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One of the variants set to be introduced (or should that be re-introduced?) is Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne aka Batman. Keaton is expected to play a major role in The Flash, with Barry Allen turning to the aged superhero for help in putting the multiverse back to in its box and getting himself back home.
The star of Batman in 1989 and its sequel Batman Returns in 1992, Keaton will reprise the role of The Dark Knight after three decades, with the actor as excited as we all are to see him slip back into the rubber suit and cape. “It was shockingly normal. It was weird,” the actor said of once again donning the pointy-eared cowl. “Like I went, ‘Oh, oh yeah, that’s right.’ But also then you start to play the scenes, and it was a lot of memories, a lot of interesting sense memories.”
Directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, The Flash stars Ezra Miller as Barry Allen aka The Flash alongside Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne aka Batman, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Sasha Calle as Supergirl, and Ben Affleck also as Bruce Wayne aka Batman.
