DC is slowly but surely rising up from the era of chaotic conundrum and beginning to take shape out of the remnants of its past. Among the fibers of its reign, the few heroes that were born are now mostly lost to the wind. But two – The Flash and Aquaman – have still prevailed even amid the hurricane of breakdowns and restructuring. Now, as DC draws closer to the curtains-up call and the plans are laid out in front of the audience to bear witness to, it seems DC didn’t do too bad for itself, after all.
Ezra Miller’s The Flash Attracts Undivided Attention
Stranger things may have happened but the rise and fall (and rise again, apparently) of Ezra Miller has to be right up there among the top tiers of strange occurring. Marking his debut in Batman v Superman in an underrated entry scene, the saga that followed for Miller (in the reels as well as real life) was an utter and complete definition of tumultuous upheavals. But with DC’s higher-ups sticking close by him and stubbornly pushing The Flash up to the finishing line – one had to believe there was an order to the madness.
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As it so happens, the risk was worth it after DC’s unveiling of the film’s teaser. As chilling as every single component of that teaser was, it was even more unnerving in its unflinching and catastrophic tone. But there has also simultaneously been a revelation (a scoop) that claims the original cut of The Flash was more grandiose than what has been presented to the audience by DC. For one, Henry Cavill was present as Superman, as were the characters of Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Jason Momoa.
In a true fashion of changing the old guard, the characters of the Justice League it seems were elemental to Miller’s Flash changing history by changing the past and the future.
What Did DC Replace From The Flash Original Cut?
So far, everything beginning with the opening sequence callback to Batman ’89 to the final and ever-iconic “I’m Batman” was perfection. But none comes as close as Sasha Calle’s scream in the middle of high-octane action sequences and grand revelations. That scream in itself was an invocation of the past and the future – both in terms of Flash’s storyline as well as the dichotomous DCEU and DCU.
The latter especially comes to mind because of the microscopic similarity that Calle’s helpless and earth-shattering scream holds to Cavill’s same in Man of Steel when he took Zod’s life. And in one of fate’s comical ironies, the scoop by Scott Menzel enunciates how the DC cinematic universe in its efforts to erase the errors of its past plucked Henry Cavill out of the equation to replace him with Sasha Calle’s Supergirl. The scream, it seems, is more of a juxtaposition of what was and what is.
Considering how David Zaslav and James Gunn have both claimed that the Flashpoint narrative is essential to ushering in the new era at DC, there couldn’t have been much harm to a peaceful resolution to the franchise’s current problem without all the drama. The Justice League trio could have maintained their appearance within the film, been a part of the Flashpoint arc, and in the aftermath risen as an Elseworlds timeline – away from what is now considered as the mainstream DCU continuity.
The Flash premieres on 16 June 2023.
Source: Twitter | Scott Menzel
