Back in March, you may recall The Hollywood Reporter running a story headlined "Tom Cruise Has Seen 'The Flash' … and He Loved It."
Coming shortly after DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn had declared the Scarlet Speedster's first solo outing "probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made," the piece only served to further increase excitement for the DC Comics adaptation.
While the actor himself didn't share any direct quotes for the story, it's said Cruise was treated to an early private screening and later called director Andy Muschietti to allegedly say The Flash is "everything you want in a movie" and "this is the kind of movie we need now."
Ultimately, it felt like Warner Bros. had leaked the "news" as part of The Flash's aggressive marketing campaign. Like Gunn and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Cruise has since seen his reported comments come back to haunt him after the movie received tepid reviews and bombed at the box office (it made just $2.4 million yesterday, taking its domestic total to $91.6 million).
Perhaps that explains why the Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning star made no mention of The Flash while enjoying a recent double-bill of Oppenheimer and Barbie. It's previously been reported that he was unhappy about sharing IMAX screens with those movies, but he's clearly supportive of them and this week's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Still, it's odd he wouldn't give The Flash a boost, especially when he supposedly loved it as much as both the trade and those involved with the movie have since claimed. Perhaps he's simply looking to distance himself from a clanger?
We'll let you draw your own conclusions on why that might be in the comments section.
You can check out Cruise's Tweet below.
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