The Flash has been the subject of two television series, multiple video games, and various movie appearances over the years, but the Scarlet Speedster has no solo live action movie yet … That’s about to change in 2022 with Warner Bros. ‘ The Flash, who will see It en Chapter two managing director Andy Muschietti turn on the footlight directly Ezra Miller‘s socially awkward iteration of Barry Allen.
At DC FanDome today, Andy was connected by his sister and producer Barbara Muschietti, author Christina Hodson, and Miller himself to talk about the future of this character, which we have not seen since his goofy appearance in 2017’s Justice League. Here is everything you need to know about The Flash DC FanDome panel.
Miller, who on this panel looks a lot like a younger, skinnier version of Jack Black, spent most of his screen time falling on random “Flash Facts” that had little to do with The Flash as this movie. But there was a lot of concrete information about the new film that envied us to the possibilities of what it might mean within the larger DCEU.
“Telling the story of one of the greatest superheroes in the DC world is a challenge, but the most important thing is that it gets to your heart,” said Andy Muschietti. Miller agreed: ‘You meet Andy, and you can immediately understand why he’s the perfect choice for this movie. It is his compassion, his priority in this film in finding the heart of the story. ”
But while the heart must be there, of course, it must also look great. “I’m excited to see Andy’s version of the Speed Force,” Hodson said. ‘He happened to be doing some doodles, which I may or may not have taken and kept. They are literally unlike anything I have ever seen. “That sounds like it could actually be a really cool thing, because Hodson has immersed himself in the Flash lore and seen a lot of bone art in comic books like Flash point.
Hodson pointed out that Flash’s capabilities allow it to stand alone in the DC realm. “Batman lost his parents, Superman lost his planet, Harley Quinn lost her egg sandwich, but Barry, because he has this ability to go back and manipulate time, he’s the only one who can actually go and his change your own personal story. “
Muschietti, who called this “a time travel story”, added: “His mother was murdered, his father was trained and locked up, and all his journey back then was a man trying to make things … the script really captures his loquacity, his personality … he is someone who has the power to change events from the past, but thereby can reduce the dust of the space-time continuum. “
“Time travel is not easy,” Hodson warned. “It’s not always a straightforward matter of, ‘go back and change one thing, and another thing will change in the future.'”
Miller reaffirmed that this film is slamming the door to the multiverse and introducing a chaotic new energy for the DCEU. ‘This movie is hugely important, because when you look around the DC Universe, you obviously have all these characters that exist within their own bubbles. We even now have multiple iterations of the same story. This movie, by opening that Flash point did in the comics, all these stories and characters can start to collide … it blows our minds, the levels of possibility that exist in the context of this character, this story. “
(Interestingly, the recordings of DC features shown over that last quote included some shots from HBO’s Watchmen, perhaps indicating that some of those characters may be involved in some way.)
“The cinematic multiverse will be born out of this film,” Hodson said. “It’s born from Barry’s story.”
Filming has not yet begun, but Muschietti has unveiled two pieces of concept art from the film. In addition to the image at the top of this page of Miller’s Flash and Michael Keaton’s Batman fighting together, there’s also a closer look at The Flash’s new suit:
“As you can see, it’s more organic,” Andy Muschietti explained. “You can see light embedded in it. It was built by his friend Bruce Wayne, this time. ”
The panel ended on a bit of a silly note, as all the talk about the multiverse took a turn after the goofy with Muschietti and said he wants to cross Flash with Game of Thrones reducing the time it takes from Winterfell to King’s Landing. (He has clearly not seen the last few seasons, when that trip basically happened in a flash without the help of Barry Allen.) As for Miller, he jokingly said that he would like to meet The Flash someday Nicolas Cage – not the version of Superman that Cage never played in the day before Tim Burton, but “Nicolas Cage the person, in this world, who I believe probably has the ability to move across space time.”
The Flash speeds up in theaters June 3, 2022.
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