Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I’m your host Paul aka the guy who’s more than just
a Flash in the pan and this video we’re breaking down the first look at the Flash.
The brand new teaser trailer for the movie was unveiled at DC Fandome this weekend and
it’s packed with Easter Eggs, hidden details and also things you missed. There’s also
some big clues towards who the true villain of the piece is and we have a lot of wild
theories about what’s really going on.
Ok so the trailer opens up with what is a shot of Wayne Manor from the original Batman
1989 movie by Tim Burton. Accompanying this are the opening notes of the song Photos / Beautiful
Dreamer from the original Danny Elfman soundtrack.
Wayne Manor still carries across a lot of iconography from the 1989 film including the
gate that was in it and there are also the Gargoyles which too featured in that film.
A vast blanket of fog also surrounds the location and it just adds so much to the mystique of
the movie.
Now the film will be pulling across elements of Flashpoint which is pretty much the graphic
novel that kickstarted the New 52. In it Barry Allen travelled back in time and stopped his
mother from being murdered which had massive ramifications for the universe. It sent a
shockwave through time and this affected a lot of the events in the timeline. Bruce Wayne
was shot in the alleyway instead of his parents and because of this his Father became Batman
and his mother became The Joker.
Superman also didn’t crash land in Smallville and he was taken in by the Government who
experimented on him and kept him locked in a prison away from the Sun.
Because the Justice League was never formed Wonder Woman and Aquaman’s Kingdoms both
went to war and it led to the world being completley wiped out in the final few scenes
which made Barry travel back in time once more to make sure that his mother was murdered.
Happy Mother’s day.
Just in the same way that The New 52 was used to rewrite the DC Canon and give a sort of
reboot to the entire thing whilst keeping certain stories in place, I think that The
Flash will do the same thing and it will bring people across like Keaton’s Batman into
the DCEU. It was said that Keaton would be a Nick Fury type figure so they might keep
him doing that in the main timeline whilst Pattinson is off in his own. I’d love to
see Ben Affleck return and get a Snyderverse spin off in it’s own continuity too and
we know from behind the scenes looks that he will be in the film as well
Now the trailer seems to be changing things up slightly and instead of there being Superman,
we now have Supergirl.
Remember in Flashpoint, Superman was weakened on purpose and it looks like at one point
that Supergirl is too as Barry nurses over her. Potentially it could be the same thing
here but we’ll just have to wait and see.
The Batman still seems to be Bruce Wayne and he will be played by Michael Keaton. Interestingly
there’s two versions of Barry Allen but I actually have a theory that this is the
Reverse Flash.
In Flashpoint we discover that The Reverse Flash was stalking Barry through time and
mocking him.
In the comics, Reverse Flash travelled back in time to kill Barry but he ended up killing
his mother instead. His father was framed for it and it just ripped the Allen household
apart.
Initially Barry thought that it was him who had changed the timeline but as we learned
towards the end of the movie, it was Barry that had saved his mom which caused the fallout.
Still though, he hung around mocking Barry and showed up like a trench coat FLASHer...to
expose the true plan. Flasher...thank you.
I actually believe that the second Barry we see in the film will be the Reverse Flash
and that it’s not Barry Allen from another timeline. The Reverse Flash’s colours are
Yellow and in the trailer we can see that the character wears these colours throughout.
Bit of a tenuous link but we’ll get into it.
Now we see the Two Barries arrive on the grounds of Wayner Manor in a taxi which has a licence
plate that reads ‘Central city.’
This is the home of The Flash in the comics and it’s clear that they’ve travelled
a long way to get there. In the comic Barry travelled to Batman because Batman would know
what to do but he found a very different one to what he was expecting.
Clearly the two have met up and this wouldn’t be the first time The Flash has come face
to face with another Flash as Ezra Miller and Grant Gustin did in the CW special Crisis
On Infinite Earths.
Coming face to face with himself in the crossover might have sparked up the idea that he should
go and see if there are alternate versions of himself which would lead to this movie.
See...it’s all connected.
Now shoutouts my superior version from the Multiverse Ryan Arey who spotted that the
Top of the Taxi has the cab number 163 which is the issue in which Barry first meets his
arch enemy The Reverse Flash.
They head inside the manor and this is our first look at the inside. There’s a grand
staircase and also lots of things covered in dust cloths which I’m guessing is because
Alfred is dead. Bruce Wayne never had to clean so he probably has no idea what to do and
the Mansion itself is becoming very run down.
Over the top of it we hear Michael Keaton narrating the fact that Barry can go to any
timeline and any universe but he wants to know why he wants to stay and fight to save
this one.
(insert clip of voice over)
Well this is clearly because of it being the one in which his Mother is still alive. Barry
wants to do nothing more than have a relationship with her as it not only means that he gets
a normal life but his dad also doesn’t go to prison for the rest of his life.
Now in the trailer we see him travelling back to his home at Night. We can see the Number
12 on a mailbox and in the daytime shot he walks up to the front door and we can also
see the Number 12, confirming it’s the same house.
This then cuts to him coming across his Mother in the kitchen. I actually think that this
is a cut up of the end of the movie and potentially also the start.
In Flashpoint we don’t actually see Barry travelling back in time to save her until
the big reveal at the end when he learns that this was the event in which he killed her.
Barry travels back to his mother and tells her everything. The pair have a really emotional
farewell and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. Kevin Smith cried over this for like 3 hours.
Now why I think this is at the end of the movie is because Flash has a brand new suit
in it that we later see him wearing in the cave. It just makes sense to me that he works
towards this, gets it and then goes back to see his mother. Even the boots are Golden.
Grant Gustin would be proud.
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Now I think that he will arrive at the house and then remember him travelling back in time
to save her. This will then lead into him telling her that she’s gonna have to die
so things can go back to normal and it’s no doubt gonna be a very messed up scene.
Other moments of note in this are Barry starting up the power in the Batcave which has the
same sound effect and spark up that was shown in the Burton films.
We then see Barry’s hand which I think is the one with longer hair due to his jacket.
He’s reaching out and touching an elderly persons one who seems to be collapsed in the
Batcave. I’m guessing they are coming across Keaton here who is passed out on the floor.
We then hear Bruce saying he changed the future and the past. We then get some shots of the
Batsuit with the cowl removed and around it are small pools of blood.
I have seen a lot of people on twitter saying that this could be Afflecks cowl and that
it even looks like a cross between Keaton’s and his. There’s some really nice ones about
him potentially melding the two together and this being a cross but after looking at it
a lot I think it’s just Keaton’s.
Keaton’s batsuit can also be seen in the background and this definitely just seems
like it’s something Bruce took off and dropped on the floor after a tough fight.
The character does something similar in The Dark Knight Returns after going toe to toe
with the Mutant leader and he returns back to the batcave and takes the armour off, dumping
it on the floor as he retreats further into it.
Interestingly this suit pops up again later on in the trailer and we can see the Second
barry wearing it. Andy Muschetti dropped a post on instagram recently showing the flash
symbol spray painted over the top of the Batsymbol and it looks like this is what has happened
here.
We also see at one point the bat boots getting a flash symbol spray painted onto them so
that just makes the most sense.
Barry’s costume is typically kept within a flash ring and this can be seen in the trailer
as well though we don’t get much of it.
We can also catch Supergirl here at this point so I’m guessing that this is towards the
end of the film before Barry goes back in time. It’s just the two Barry’s who arrive
at the manor and if we follow Flashpoint they then rescue Superman and return there.
Though he isn’t with them in the book, potentially they went off and got Supergirl and then came
back to send Barry back into the past.
We do get an image of Barry in a weird room at some point staring at a statue, I actually
think this might house the cosmic treadmill which has been shown in Toys.
Though the set up is slightly different this was used to send Barry further back into the
past than he’d ever been before so it makes sense that it would pop up here.
In Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Barry reversed time but it was only a couple of seconds so
the treadmill would help him go further back. I almost wonder if this is something that
The Ben Affleck version helped him build it in order to send him back in time.
I’m not sure if we will ever see the Knightmare timeline again but I think an amazing way
to start the movie would be to have us pick up immediately after Zack Snyder’s Justice
League with the group all running back to the batcave whilst an evil Superman tries
to kill them.
They get there and then Barry runs back to the past, gives the warning to Bruce in Batman
V Superman and then he continues throguh time and ends up back at his house. I know that
it’s not really the original plan that Zack Snyder had but it would somehwat help to at
least give resolution to the Knightmare timeline and I’d much rather it was acknowledged
than completely ignored. The world being destroyed would be a good reason for someone to go back
in time and yeah, just what I’d personally like to see.
The batcave also has the batcomputer and also a landing deck for what I’m guessing is
for the btwing. There’s also a waterfall which wasn’t present in the original design
as Batman drove through a fake cave entrance. This makes it look a lot like the one that
Bale had and this may not even be the original 89 universe but rather a similar offshoot
to it.
Right after this we get a look at the new suit and can see that The Barry is wearing
it.
Michael Keatons Cowl comes in but it also looks slightly like the Bale Batman begins
cowl from behind and we get somewhat of the Hans Zimmer drums so I’d absolutely love
it if this was the Bale version as well and we just had no idea.
Listen again with that in mind.
(play drums bit)
Now that’s probably pretty unlikely but it would just be so cool if they did it.
Though the music isn’t exactly the same it sounds way more like the ZImmer stuff than
everything that Elfman put out.
The batcave looks way closer to the version that was in the Nolan movies and even just
a cameo would make this one of the biggest surprises in a comic book movie ever.
The trailer ends with Barry 1 asking someone if they’re in and I think this is obviously
Bruce Wayne. Due to the dumped uniform and stuff it may even be that he is retired.
WE then get the logo which has a maze like structure and cut to Barry about to pull the
tarp off the top of the batmobile. Now I have seen leaked images for the film and if they’re
legit then this is the 1989 Anton Furst one.
We can’t show them in this video because of copyright reasons but you can tell by the
shape of the cloth that it is indeed one in the same.
Now if this is The Reverse Flash then his reaction makes sense as well as the villain
was obsessed with superheroes and also history.
Him seeing this would absolutely blow his mind. Also tell Ezra miller that he had a
really nice Choker. I said Choker, not choke her.
Anyway that’s me getting cancelled so and the end of the trailer.
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Now as for my thoughts on it I absolutely loved the first look and for me it was the
second best thing at DC Fandome after the Batman trailer.
The event did have a lot of filler I think but this was something that was worth sitting
through for as though it was short, it gave us a lot of ideas over what was gonna be happening
in the film.
I really think that Keaton is someone who’s a massive get for the company and seeing him
back in the cowl will be an absolutely outstanding moment that will pretty much make most fans
go wild for it.
The multiverse offers up a lot of things for the future and it also gives DC the chance
to kinda correct the course and get things all in place so that the universe and the
mistakes of it are brushed to the side.
I actually kinda respect that Marvel spent 10 plus years carefully building up towards
the multiverse and then DC just completely screwed things up and said f**k...multiverse
it is.
Either way, if it leads to movies like this then I really dont mind as it’s such a cool
concept. What they have here is the opportunity to not only fix the universe, but also bring
back some beloved fan favourites and get us to see the emotional heartbreak that Barry
had to go through in losing his mother.
Being a hero is of course about sacrifice and having to give up what you love the most
which I think this story can embody.
All of the heroes look like they’re kinda on the backfoot here which I think will be
really interesting.
I know amongst the comic book movie community that there’s people who love Ezra and others
that are a bit unsure on his portrayal of the speedster but this movie feels like it
has enough going on that anyone will find something to love.
You of course have Keaton, Ben Afflecks Batman and also Super Girl as well as the Flash so
there really is a reason for everyone to go and see it.
It’s super smart by Warner Bros to do this and hopefully it pays off as this has the
potential to be a massive multiverse movie. I think Batman is still my number one by quite
a bit but this was still an awesome trailer that I’m really really excited for.
Either way I really enjoyed the teaser and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it so
make sure you comment below and let me know. If you have a theory or we missed something
then I’d love to hear it as there’s definitely a lot to talk about.
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