The following post contains potential SPOILERS for the Flash movie. But almost all of these potential spoilers are also rumors and should be treated as such.
The internet is currently abuzz with a bunch of rumors about the plot of The Flash, the long-awaited solo movie for DC Comics' fastest man alive, played by Ezra Miller.
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It is already known that the film is inspired by a comic book called “Flashpoint”, where the trip in time alters the world and creates a darker reality that only the Flash recognizes and must to repair.
The result of this new reality, according to these rumors – and again, at this point, this is a rumor – would be that The Flash marks the end of the DC Extended Universe, or at least a major departure from everything that came before, sending it in an entirely different direction in the future. future.
According to TMZ, "a handful of movie insiders claim to have seen a cut of the new Flash movie" and say, among other things, that the film marks the final appearances of Ben Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman.
Others claim The Flash completely erases previous DCEU films - which started with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and continued with Batman Vs. Superman, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman, Shazam, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman 1984 and The Suicide Squad – and creates a new Justice League out of some of the new characters introduced in The Flash.
At least some of that ties in with what we know about DC's other big movie in development, the Batgirl solo movie. Batgirl introduces JK Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, but it also introduces Michael Keaton as the older version of Bruce Wayne, who he will reintroduce in The Flash.
On the other hand, some of these DCEU franchises will clearly continue; there's another Shazam! coming out soon, and there's been a lot of talk about another Wonder Woman movie as well. Last month, Spider-Man: Never Go Home showed that it's possible to combine different movie universes without erasing them entirely from existence.
In fact, fans want the opposite. They want everything to exist together at the same time, like No Return Home. So the notion that The Flash will completely erase all previous films from existence seems very unlikely. At some point in Hollywood, it all comes back.
We'll see what happens when The Flash opens in theaters, which is scheduled to happen on November 4, 2022.
