The next accommodates spoilers for the tip of The Flash.
The Flash is a film in a really bizarre place. The DC Universe that it was born into is coming to an finish in only some extra months. That wasn’t utterly understood again when the film was made. And but, for thus many causes The Flash is definitely the proper film to finish the present DC Universe as we wait to start the brand new one, which is why it’s all of the more odd that The Flash is by some means not the final film within the present franchise. Hear me out.
In just a few months, we’ll see Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom, which is the final DC film on the schedule underneath the outdated guard. In a few years the brand new DCU headed by James Gunn and Peter Safran will start, and the characters of the present DC franchise are both being recast or solely ignored, not less than for now. So why the hell isn’t The Flash the notice the studio determined to exit on?
The Flash Works Higher If It’s The Finish Of The Franchise
Whenever you come to the tip of one thing, it makes quite a lot of sense to look again at the place you got here from. When the MCU got here to the tip of its Infinity Saga it informed a narrative of time journey and multiverses that noticed characters revisit locations the story had been earlier than, and The Flash does largely the identical factor, taking us again to the occasions of Man of Metal, although in a barely modified model.
Not solely that, The Flash incorporates parts of DC motion pictures previous by bringing again Michael Keaton as Batman. Contemplating the fashionable comedian e-book film craze is in no small half indebted to that film, it’s a becoming movie to have a good time. In my view, Keaton’s Batman and The Flash working collectively are an ideal bookending of three a long time of DC heroes on the large display.
After which the ending of The Flash takes issues even additional again. We see and listen to practically each earlier model of Superman and Batman on the large and small display because the completely different universes collide. We see George Reeve as Superman and Adam West’s basic Batman, even Christopher Reeve’s Superman makes an look alongside Helen Slater’s Supergirl. It’s the proper approach to say goodbye to all of it earlier than issues begin contemporary in a few years.
Aquaman 2 And The Flash May Have Simply Swapped Launch Dates
Which raises the query, why was the choice made to launch Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom after The Flash? Each motion pictures suffered from numerous delays associated to the pandemic in addition to the overall delays that include each film manufacturing. As such, each motion pictures have largely been achieved for a very long time. There’s no cause that Aquaman 2 couldn’t have come out first.
At one level it was completely the plan to launch the Aquaman sequel earlier than The Flash, however then the choice was made final 12 months to shift the releases of Aquaman and Shazam!: Fury of the Gods, whereas leaving the discharge date of The Flash intact, so Aquaman and the Loast Kingdom went from popping out three months earlier than The Flash to 6 months after.
James Wan has mentioned the Arthur Curry-led movie modified after the Gunn announcement. As well as, it has been rumored and it is attainable that this resolution was made as a result of Aquaman 2 wanted the additional time, however did it actually need all the way in which till December? Could not it have moved to June after which The Flash may have been shifted to December? It is clear the studio has massive expectations for Flash, and thus virtually definitely needed it within the prime summer time slot, however massive motion pictures have made billions in December too, and if Flash is that good, it might have.
Even when the brand new Aquaman film makes $1 billion on the field workplace because the final film did, and even when it’s a really nice movie in its personal proper, and even when some model of Batman reveals up —which should be occurring — it’s nonetheless going to be simply an Aquaman film. In my view, that’s not how this model of DC ought to have gone out.
Possibly There’s A Motive Aquaman 2 Will Be The Finish Of The DCEU
Until, in fact, there’s a cause that these launch dates had been swapped round. Whereas most of what we find out about Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom would appear to point it’s largely a standalone Aquaman film, we haven’t really seen something from it, so possibly there’s one thing we don’t know concerning the venture that can make it a becoming finish of the DCEU.
Jason Momoa does seem in The Flash’s mid-credits sequence, in a scene that, whereas enjoyable, doesn’t appear so as to add something to The Flash’s ending. It wouldn’t be the primary time {that a} post-credits scene was used strictly for laughs, however contemplating that the scene did embody the lead character of the final film, it’s possibly a bit shocking that the scene didn’t tease something concerning the subsequent film or do something with Aquaman which may set him up for no matter is to come back.
Besides possibly it did? Maybe there’s extra occurring in that mid-credits scene than we expect, and we simply don’t perceive it as a result of we haven’t seen the brand new Aquaman film but, and it’ll all make sense. Avengers: Endgame wasn’t the tip the Part Three of the MCU, in any case. That was Spider-Man: Far From House, which type of acted as a post-script on the occasions of the huge climax. Maybe that’s what Aquman and the Misplaced Kingdom is being set as much as be. In fact, we knew that Far From House was not going to be the ultimate MCU film, so the place the chapter ended was possibly much less vital. Aquaman gained’t be the tip of a chapter, it is going to be the tip of the story.
Even when James Gunn and Peter Safran launch their new DCU, that doesn’t imply that the present period of DC movies will probably be gone eternally. In the identical approach that The Flash introduced again so many basic variations of well-liked heroes, one thing related may occur in the way forward for the DCU. Nonetheless, after we’re trying again on this explicit period of DC Movies years from now, many won’t even keep in mind that Aquaman 2 was the place it ended. The Flash’s ending was a lot extra poetic.