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In two weeks time, Warner Bros. will lastly launch The Flash, its loooooooong in growth 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 final endpoint of the film (and at the very least one cameo), however WB is outwardly maintaining mum on some issues.
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Per Selection, WB’s reportedly acquired a “secret ending” it’s attempting to maintain a lid on as a lot as attainable, to the purpose the place there’s just one premiere set for a number of days earlier than the film’s launch. When the film premiered at CinemaCon in April, it had a good quantity of its remaining scene lacking and ended fairly abruptly. However extra lately, WB’s been making an lively 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 more moderen screenings in Burbank had key parts blurred out. A part of that is reportedly as a consequence of Miller: WB reportedly needs to “hold its choices open” on the prospect that it must recast in mild of their PR points (and subsequent ongoing restoration course of).
It’s an attention-grabbing distinction in comparison with how WB’s dealt with its final two DC Comics motion pictures. The studio had no hassle placing within the respective cameos held in Black Adam (Henry Cavill’s Superman) and Shazam: Fury of the Gods (Gal Gadot’s Surprise Lady) within the advertising for these motion pictures. Each of these cameos had been supposed as incentives to get audiences to see these particular motion pictures, so the query for The Flash is, what’s completely different right here? Is it really a considerable recreation 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 subsequent few months go”? We’ll discover out when The Flash involves theaters on June 16.
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