In two weeks time, Warner Bros. will lastly launch The Flash, its loooooooong in improvement superhero film. A lot of the film’s advertising has been taking part in up the film as an epic team-up between Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, Michael Keaton’s returning Batman, and newcomer Sasha Calle as Supergirl. You’d suppose there wouldn’t be the rest within the film that may actually be shock worthy, given we all know the general endpoint of the film (and a minimum of one cameo), however WB is outwardly holding mum on some issues.
Per Variety, WB’s reportedly obtained a “secret ending” it’s making an attempt to maintain a lid on as a lot as attainable, to the purpose the place there’s solely one premiere set for a number of days earlier than the film’s launch. When the film premiered at CinemaCon in April, it had an honest quantity of its remaining scene lacking and ended fairly abruptly. However extra just lately, WB’s been making an energetic effort to cover no matter’s within the movie’s closing moments: forward of CinemaCon, the ultimate scene was modified a handful of instances, and newer screenings in Burbank had key parts blurred out. A part of that is reportedly because of Miller: WB reportedly desires to “hold its choices open” on the prospect that it must recast in gentle of their PR points (and subsequent ongoing restoration course of).
It’s an fascinating distinction in comparison with how WB’s dealt with its final two DC Comics motion pictures. The studio had no bother placing within the respective cameos held in Black Adam (Henry Cavill’s Superman) and Shazam: Fury of the Gods (Gal Gadot’s Marvel Girl) within the advertising for these motion pictures. Each of these cameos have been meant as incentives to get audiences to see these particular motion pictures, so the query for The Flash is, what’s totally different right here? Is it really a considerable sport changer or only a bog-standard “we’re planting our flags for some future stuff that’ll perhaps come to fruition relying on how the following few months go”? We’ll discover out when The Flash involves theaters on June 16.
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