It’s nonetheless arduous to consider that Warner Bros. Discovery’s The Flash is definitely taking place given its years of manufacturing setbacks and star Ezra Miller’s latest brushes with the police related to a number of troubling situations. However scandals be damned, The Flash is on its means, although by the look of the film’s first trailer, Miller’s Barry Allen isn’t going to be the actual big-ticket draw right here.
Loosely primarily based on DC’s Flashpoint comics event, director Andy Muschietti’s The Flash will observe Barry throughout the multiverse as he embarks on a haphazard journey into the previous, the place he hopes to stop his mom’s demise. By tapping into the ability of the Pace Drive, it’s (comparatively) straightforward sufficient for him to journey by time by actually pushing his metahuman velocity. However when Barry’s meddling up to now results in the creation of a brand new timeline completely devoid of metahumans that he turns into trapped in, he and that actuality’s Barry (additionally performed by Miller) staff up in hopes of placing issues proper.
Although the brand new trailer appears to recommend that the Barrys will share a particular second involving Pace Drive lightning that leaves them each empowered, it’s the opposite heroes they’re going to be allying with who’re more likely to steal the present. Devoid of correct metahumans as the brand new actuality is, it’s acquired a minimum of one Batman (Michael Keaton) who doesn’t want to have the ability to flip his head to beat criminals up, and one near-indestructible Kryptonian named Kara (Sasha Calle) sporting the Home of El image. The pair won’t be Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck (who’s additionally set to seem in The Flash), however the trailer undoubtedly frames Kara and this tackle Bruce Wayne as its world’s finest heroes, and it’s attention-grabbing to see Supergirl being featured prominently in a narrative.
The Flash has all of the makings of being the kind of mission that very nicely might functionally reset the DCEU and introduce James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Universe, which might be fairly the clever little bit of footwork on the studio’s part. However we gained’t know whether or not that’s really WBD’s plan or if it even has an opportunity of working till The Flash hits theaters on June sixteenth, 2023.