Alright so The Flash is sprinting into theaters in less than 2 months, but a couple days ago
a bevy of news outlets, critics, and influencers were treated to an early screening of an almost
complete version of the film at CinemaCon.
This means a TON of new information about the film has hit the socials, so we here at
Heavy Spoilers, are lacing up our tennies, and running straight into all of this new
information.
All of this is heavily rumored, but to play things safe this is going to contain heavy
alleged spoilers for the upcoming Flash movie.
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Now again I want to preface everything by saying take everything we talk about with
a grain of salt.
These details come from others that attended the CinemaCon Flash premiere, with portions
of the movie, specifically the CGI, being unfinished.
Some of this could change by the time the final theatrical version is released, so anyone
saying in the comments that their uncle who works at DC said otherwise, honestly… might
be true this time around.
But kicking things off, The Flash apparently starts with the Flash and Batman teaming up
chasing some bank robbers that have a contingency plan to blow up a nearby hospital if their
demands are not met.
In this action sequence, the Flash zooms through saving all of the doctors and patients similar
to his speed scenes in Justice League, while Batman swoops in stopping the bombs and capturing
the robbers.
An action packed intro to this 2 hour and 30 minute-ish movie, as we’re kinda shown
an origin sequence, featuring Barry gaining his powers after he was struck by a bolt of
lightning, while trying to investigate and gather clues about his mother’s murder back
in 2013.
It’s also revealed Barry was present at the Battle of Metropolis featured in Man of
Steel, helping to evacuate civilians.
Now things jump back to present day, as Barry apparently is in court trying to fight for
his father’s, Henry Allen, release from prison, however proves unsuccessful.
Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne picks him up from the courthouse, and they discuss how it may
be possible for Barry to travel quick enough, to go back in time to save his mother the
night she was unfortunately killed.
However Bruce reassures him of the dangers, stating how one little change could have a
massive ripple effect.
Barry of course doesn’t listen to Bruce’s advice, and runs, he runs so far away,back
to 2001 and steals a can of tomato soup from the local grocery store.
This of course forces Barry’s mother to go to another store, so she isn’t home during
the time of her murder in the original timeline.
Barry thinks he has solved all of his problems, casually speed running back to 2023, but during
this a mysterious other speedster creature, who we find out to be Dark Flash, attacks
Barry, sending him spiraling into 2013, rather than 2023.
Here he finds his mother still alive, and meets his younger self.
But Present Barry soon realizes Past Barry won’t get his speed force powers, because
his mother is alive in this new timeline, and he will never investigate her murder,
hence being struck by lightning and so forth.
The two go back and forth on whether or not this lightning strike will still occur or
not, when Present Barry is struck by lightning and loses his powers.
It didn’t happen to past Barry, so therefore Present Barry never received his powers,
This is where the events of Man of Steels get all screwy louie, as General Zod arrives
to Earth, but Henry Cavill’s Superman is nowhere to be found.
Maybe you should have paid him more, ya chumps!
Sorry, but uhh yeah, the two Barrys go off to Wayne Manor in Gotham City to ask Batman
to help with their situation.
Upon arrive though, it is no longer Ben Affleck’s Batman like in present day, but rather an
aged and retired Michael Keaton Batman
With all of these oddities, Barry realizes that he accidentally tangled different timelines
together when he changed the past, and of course like any time travel Back to the Future-like
movie, needs to fix the timeline.
Bruce in his curmudgeon attitude, reluctantly agrees to help out the pair and suits up.
Mission one is where the heck is Superman, so Batman locates what he thinks is Kal-El
to a military base somewhere in Siberia, and the mission is to break him out.
But to their surprise, instead of Kal-El, they find his cousin Zara Zor-El, aka Supergirl,
who was captured as a child upon arriving to Earth, and has been locked up her entire
life.
The group helps her escape the dark depths of the prison, as she then abandons the group
upon reaching sunlight and activating her powers.
Though she quickly returns to save the others from the hordes of guards.
They gather back up at Wayne Manor, where Past Barry starts to develop a crush on Supergirl.
Apparently here is where the group try to devise a plan to get Barry’s powers back,
first with Batman trying some electruction techniques, but all of them fail.
Instead Kara flies Barry into a storm, allowing him to be struck by lightning, which seemingly
restores his powers like it was nothing.
Shocking… right?
Zod is still on his journey of taking over Earth, with him terraforming with the World
Engine in the same desert from Man of Steel, instead of the heart of Metropolis.
The two Flashes, Batman, and Supergirl confront him, leading to a massive battle between the
two sides, which was heavily featured in this latest trailer for the movie.
Apparently this battle is played out several times, with it always ending with Batman and/or
Supergirl dying.
The Flashes travel back in time a handful of times, but cannot seem to prevent this
moment.
Present Barry determines this is a fixed point in the timelines, but Past Barry, a bit more
immature of course, refuses to accept this fate.
And continues over and over again, until he vanishes into the Speed Force.
However Past Barry doesn’t return, it is instead Dark Flash.
With Present Barry reliazing this is a future version of Past Barry, who has spent his entire
life resenting Present Barry for changing everything, you know the Barry who was selfish
and completely messed up everything.
Now I’m not saying this is stereotypical, just evil up your main character, in a metaphorical
face your self, face your problems moment, buuuuuuutttttt.
But rumored Dark Flash has spent years traveling through time, trying hundreds, if not thousands
of permutations of events without success.
But has come to believe that the one thing that could fix everything is killing Present
Barry, which in turn would save the world, and correct these divergents.
Present Barry realizes the massive mistake he has made, and tries to race back through
time to undo his action, but Dark Flash chases after him, as he considers Present Barry to
be too dangerous to live.
Just as Dark Flash is about to kill Barry, Past Barry returns from earlier in his timeline
and sacrifices himself to Present Barry, causing Dark Flash to vanish, allowing Present Barry
to travel back to 2001 to fix the can of soup fiasco.
Now this is apparently a cameo filled what/if buffet for comic book fans, because while
traveling back in time, Barry travels through different timelines and universes leading
to cameos from Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Adam West’s Batman, Lynda Carter’s Wonder
Woman, Nicolas Cage…
fucking Nic Cage as Superman from the scrapped Tim Burton Superman movie, Superman Lives.
If you haven't yet, there is an awesome documentary about all of this called The Death of "Superman
Lives": What Happened?.
Anyway I’m getting off topic, George Clooney’s Batman makes an appearance, along with Teddy
Sears Zoom or Black Flash.
So I’m sure hardcore fans will be screaming “LETS GOOOO!”, during this whole rumored
sequence.
Barry back in 2001, puts the can of soup back on the shelf, and accidentally bumps into
his mother Nora Allen.
They share an emotional tender moment together, as Barry lets her go, knowing later that night
she is going to die.
Having corrected his problems, Barry speed runs back to his present day only to find
his present day isn’t the way he remembers it to be.
This looks like an entirely different universe, where Barry encounters a completely different
Batman, whose face we do not see, leaving his face ambiguous and for everyone to theorize
over, until it’s announced Channing Tatum is Batman and Superman will be Jonah Hill
Now again, this is all rumored, so some things could be added or changed from now until the
release date.
There have been reports of multiple cameos having been cut, due to the different direction
of the future DCEU movies, like Henry Cavill and Gal Gadot, having cameo roles in The Flash.
But the general structure of the edit and events seems to be right on the money with
previous rumors we’ve read.
It sounds like one big ole’ multiverse time mess up self discovery, face your own personal
demons, forget and forgive the past type story.
I guess the question is, if all of these rumors are in fact true, where the hell does theFlash
and mysterious Batman go from here?
But yeah that is everything we allegedly know about the upcoming Flash movie out of CinemaCon.
It sounds like DC’s wild ride answer to Multiverse of Madness, but yeah I’d love
to hear your thoughts on The Flash.
Does this sound like a nice soft reboot to the DCEU, or is this going to be another CGI
flop for James Gunn and company?
And I’ll let you know
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