Today at the Comic-Con panel for DC, Warner Bros. revealed that theirThe Flashmovie would be based on the 2011 comic book seriesFlashpoint. For those unfamiliar with the comics, which were written byGeoff Johns(who now oversees the DCEU),Flashpointis essentially a big reset button. Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) runs so fast that he travels back in time and prevents his mother from being killed. However, thanks to The Butterfly Effect, this has major repercussions across the DC universe. The Season 3 premiere ofThe FlashTV series also attempted their own version ofFlashpointand bungled it horribly.
It’s unknown how closely the movie will try to copyFlashpoint, especially since they still don’t have a director, but the implications for the DCEU are huge. Rather than just givingThe Flashhis own movie or a standard origin story, they’re basically turning his solo feature into a film that could fundamentally change the entirety of the DCEU. Think something along the lines ofX-Men: Days of Future Pastbut even bigger.
What’s more, the movies may have already been headed towardsFlashpoint. In the scene inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justicewhere Barry bursts through time to tell Bruce Wayne that Lois Lane is the key and that he was always right about “him” (presumably Superman), so he has to find everyone. We just assumed this was laying some groundwork forJustice League, but with that film undergoing massive reshoots, it’s possible that scene could now tie intoFlashpoint.
But overall, it looks likeFlashpointcould be the way to un-Snyder the DCEU. Basically, when Warner Bros. undertook this crossover universe, Snyder was the guiding vision, but now that he’s out, the studio wants to take the DCEU in a different direction. However, they don’t want to recast everything and start from scratch, soFlashpointcan give them everything they want. It can make the universe brighter, and it can evengive an exit toBen Affleckas Batman.
It’s a bold move, but it might be a necessary one if Warner Bros. is hoping to right the ship in the long term for how they plan to approach future DCEU movies.
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