‘The Flash’ alternate endings revealed

Spoilers prepare for ‘The Flash’ movie

Warner Bros. Pictures has achieved. Big surprise with “The Flash” in cinemas this week, featuring a wildly unexpected ending.

In the final scenes of the movie, Bruce Wayne pulls into the courtroom in his car, and when he gets out, the audience gathers to reveal him. But it’s not Wayne played by Ben Affleck or Michael Keaton, it’s Wayne played by George Clooney.

Clooney returned to the role over twenty-five years after starring in the infamous 1997 flop “Batman and Robin,” and the studio kept it a secret for nearly six months as the scene in question was filmed over a half-day in January a few weeks after making some phone calls.

talk with THRAndy Muschietti revealed that it was actually the film’s third ending. The first was back in the Warners’ Toby Emmerich-Walter Hamada era when the plan was to reset the Snyderverse and create a new one that would lead to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

This finale, as originally conceived and shot during the film’s principal photography, ended on the courthouse steps with Supergirl (Sasha Calle) and Batman (Michael Keaton) – Barry realizing he didn’t push back the timeline as he thought.

Then Discovery took over Warners, Emmerich and Hamada were eliminated, and the current presidents of the Warner Bros. group were installed. Pictures, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdi, with their own plans.

The second iteration of Callie’s Supergirl saw her joined by Henry Cavill’s Superman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, and Keaton’s Batman. This finale was filmed in September last year, with Miller, Cavill, Gadot, Keaton, and Kaley co-starring.

Then in November, the Gunn-Safran covenant was announced in the capital, and the pair had their own plans. This included canceling the “Wonder Woman” projects led by Cavill Superman and Gadot in development, which made the ending cameo redundant.

They looked for alternatives but wanted to keep the central idea: Barry Allen thinks all is well but then the rug is pulled at the last minute. Clooney and his agent were shown the mostly finished movie and liked it enough to agree to be a part of it.

Warner kept the ending a secret, with it not being screen-tested and not shown at CinemaCon in April. The first time anyone other than the filmmakers saw the new ending was during press screenings the week of June 4.

The result has become one of the most talked-about elements of the film and leads to the obvious question – with Muschietti confirmed to direct “Batman: The Brave and the Bold,” Clooney will go on and play the new lead Batman in Gunn and DCU Safran?

“Absolutely not,” Gunn said Reply tweet Last Monday, DC’s co-chair confirmed that a new actor would be cast for the role – not someone he’s played before.

“The Flash” is hitting theaters now, though its disappointing box office opening this weekend is drawing comparisons to “Black Adam” regarding its financial future.

source: THR