Could Jeffrey Dean Morgan have reprised his Man of Steel Thomas Wayne role in The Flash?
Could we have seen the Themyscira-Atlantian war?
Director Andy Muschietti and producer Barbara Muschietti discuss.
‘The Flash’ movie versus the ‘Flashpoint’ comic book.Warner Bros. Pictures; DC Comics
“My pitch was essentially about the emotional core and heart of the movie.
I knew I could do a superhero movie with all the traits: scope, size, spectacularity.
But probably the most difficult thing was to provide a strong emotional story.
Could Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprised his ‘Man of Steel’ Thomas Wayne role for ‘The Flash’? The director says they weren’t debating that.Warner Bros. Pictures;
And we found it.”
(Daley and Goldstein were two of those filmmakers that were once in the running to direct.)
The Muschiettis discuss adapting certain elements from the comic book source material, but not everything.
Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) teams up with his past self and Supergirl (Sasha Calle) to save the future in ‘The Flash’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics
Another key difference in this reality is the Wayne family tragedy.
“We didn’t want to give the audience a literal adaptation of the comic book.
I think that’s one of the good decisions that we made,” the director says.
Two Barrys (Ezra Miller) and a Batman (Michael Keaton) race to save the day in ‘The Flash’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics
“If you see the movie, you don’t know where this is going.
I think that they will be gratified by seeing that the story takes another direction.”
That, Barbara says, was essential.
Sacha Calle arrives in ‘The Flash’ as Supergirl, making her the first Latina actress to play the part.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics
“That’s the anchor of the film,” she adds.
Much like Batman, the Flash is a character who’s shaped by a familial tragedy.
The film presents an alternate version of Barry that is untouched by that trauma.
“There’s two sides to it,” Andy explains of developing these two iterations.
Then the other side of it is the execution of Ezra.
Ezra magnified the differences between these characters."
That development continued throughout the production, until the last day of shooting, according to Barbara.
Switching up DC’s titans
Michael Keaton began his journey onThe Flash, appropriately, jogging.
Keaton received a slightly updated Batsuit for the job.
“You know the story.
He was like, ‘That old suit was impossible to work with.’
He never absorbed the sun’s radiation to receive his powers, so he never became Superman.
It goes back to that initial directive: not to give a strict one-to-one adaptation of the comic.
And now, the DC universe has a new hero in Calle’s Kara.
“What Sasha brings is just crazy,” Barbara says.
“Strength and at the same time vulnerability.
We saw that in her first read in the audition.
She’s very different from the past Supergirls and we loved that.
As soon as we got her tape, we knew that she was it.”
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