You may recall last month a report from THR on writer Dan Mazeau made a commentabut his work with DC/Warners and said: “He worked on the Warner Bros.’ Flash movie project when it was titled Flashpoint”.
The use of the past-tense here got many fans pondering if the Flashpoint movie was dead at Warners. Why? Well maybe after the poor performance of Justice League they are reluctant to go down the team-up route again, or perhaps with Infinity War destroying not just heroes but box offices, they realised finally that the DC movies could be a true gold mine if just treated with the respect they deserved.
Now, a tweet from Heroic Hollywood’s Umberto Gonzolez (below) shows Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Batman from Flashpoint disappearing ala the victims of Thanos’ grand plan in Infinity War. While some speculate that it means Morgan is no longer interested in playing Batman (in the comics flash changes the past and Bruce is the one who dies on that fateful night, with his dad, Thomas, becoming Batman… and his mum, Martha, becoming Joker), it seems more likely Gonzalez is hinting at the end of Flashpoint for what we can only presume is a straight up Flash movie.
It is interesting because we assumed Flashpoint would be used to remove Ben Affleck from the Batman/Bruce Wayne role, allowing a replacement (younger?) actor to movie in. Does this mean that Affleck, who was expected to leave, is reconsidering, given the new direction the movies seem to be taking?
Let us know your thoughts…
— Umberto Gonzalez (@elmayimbe) May 9, 2018
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