Does anyone remember those days in the past (ie last year around this time) when we thought The Flash was a cursed movie ? Well, that's all over: the trailer that Warner Bros. and DC have just released for the Super Bowl confirms, in incredibly spectacular fashion, that director Andy Muschietti has been able to bring his most ambitious project to date to a successful conclusion and that everything goes ahead with a view to a premiere scheduled for June 16, although it remains to be seen what the next steps will be in a promotional campaign endowed with an elephant in the room called Ezra Miller. Specifically, we would be talking about at least two Ezra Millers, as this preview makes it clear that his character's forays into the different DC universes make him (to use the actor's own words) "a multidimensional being", with various versions of himself. itself appearing on the screen simultaneously.
Nothing new, on the other hand, for those readers familiar with some of the most famous arcs Flash has starred in comics. The trailer itself ends up pointing out three suggestions to go to our summer date with your homework done, in a clear strategy of cards on the table that, we hope, also entails fair compensation (in the form of royalties and accreditations) for the creators of that material. starting point that DC / Warner explicitly describe as the place "where it all began" , since we already know that both they and Marvel Studios have been quite stingy in that regard up to now. In fact, a quick glance at the trailer is enough to confirm that The FlashIt is inspired by an event, Flashpoint (2011), which has already been adapted in Greg Berlanti's television series, in a couple of direct-to-home animated films and even in the Injustice saga video games . We are talking about a plot arc that narrates, throughout 61 issues (five if you only want to read the main series), Barry Allen's quest to convince the rest of the superpeople that the time line they live in is not correct, but one altered as a consequence, he suspects, of the actions of his archenemy Eobard Thawne, aka Reverse Flash .
Flashpoint served at the time to completely reset the main continuity of DC Comics, incidentally generating a new canonical timeline, the New 52, very similar to the one that James Gunn and Peter Safran project for the near future with the first chapter of their DC Studios . It makes sense, therefore, to consider The Flash as a movie-hinge between the old (hence the appearances of Ben Affleck and Michael Shannon) and what is to come, with Sasha Calle's Kara Zor-El and the Bruce Wayne of Michael Keaton as the most representative examples of what a good walk through the multiverse can bring us in terms of impossible characters. In all three issues of The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive(2022-2023), screenwriter Kenny Porter and cartoonist Ricardo López Ortiz delve into the relationship that Miller's Flash and Affleck's Batman maintain in the DC Universe that we know so far, so it is legitimate to consider this limited series as a sort of official prequel to the film. However, the best option to discover how interesting an interdimensional encounter between the two characters is always is The Button (2017), a three-issue mini-arc that also contains traces of Watchmen (1986). Fixtures & Results
Finally, the trailer for The Flash recommends us to take a look at Move Forward (2011-2012), the character's first careers in the brand new universe of The New 52. The creative team formed by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato gave us some pages memorable, but perhaps the most relevant aspect of his stage was the cunning, affection and blessed ingenuity with which they raised the mythology of a hero who can be ridiculous in the wrong hands, but who shines like few others when developed by authors who deceive him . they really understand. Let's hope, then, that's the case with Muschietti: we don't want to feel like we've got his movie back… only to be disappointed in the end.