Welcome back everyone it's charlie breaking news the flash movie director
just announced that ben affleck was coming back for the flash movie and he
said how he's going to fit into the justice league flashpoint story of it all with
michael keaton's batman so of course we'll break it down there's a whole
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and let me know what you think about ben affleck coming back as
batman so we'll just start at the beginning here with the big stuff and
number these as we go along andy muschietti the flash movie director
released a statement when he announced ben affleck's batman was returning for
the movie and he said he just recently sent ben
affleck a copy of the flash movie scripts and pretty quickly after that he
agreed to be in the movie after reading the scenes that they had written for him
so this is me reading the director's statement about ben affleck coming back
he says his batman is a dichotomy that is very
strong which is his masculinity because of the way he looks and the
opposing figure that he has and his jawline but he's also very vulnerable
he knows how to deliver from the inside out that vulnerability
he just needs a story that will allow him to bring that contrast
that balance he's referencing the news story that they wrote for him during the
flash movie so then he goes on to say he's a very
substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie for anyone that's
watched the justice league flashpoint movie you also understand this too
the interaction in the relationship between barry allen and affleck's wayne
will bring an emotional level that we haven't seen before in the movies
it's barry's story but the characters are more related than we think
batman and the flash they both lost their mothers and that's one of the
emotional vessels of the movie that's where
affleck's batman kicks in so he's just hyping up the
flashpoint relationship of bruce wayne batman
in the flash everyone remembers the flashpoint ending scene where he gives
batman the letter from his father thomas wayne batman
and makes him cry he made batman cry batman does not cry which is why the
emotional payoff was so huge in that moment
it's all about learning to deal with the trauma of losing their parents batman
deals with it in a very different way from the flashlight the flash literally
tries to go back in time to prevent his mother from dying
batman tries to turn all that anger and grief into justice
i know there's a lot of questions about how they're going to adapt the original
justice league flashpoint story for the movie because they did say there would
be a lot of changes from the original story and they have all the new michael
keaton batman stuff going on from the multiverse during the movie
so four they confirmed that they're not doing the big thomas wayne flashpoint
batman part of the original story before all the michael keaton batman
announcements i had actually assumed that they'd bring back jeffrey dean
morgan as batman because he played thomas wayne during batman v superman
and he said himself that he would love to play flashpoint batman in the dc
movies but that kind of went out the window
with keaton's batman coming in and even though i'm disappointed that they're not
going to do flashpoint batman bringing michael keaton's batman back is
still really really cool two words that i want you all to
remember they're very important if i leave you with anything
i'm going to leave you with these two words and those two words are i'm batman
the director did confirm they're doing the core elements of the flashpoint
story reverse flash kills barry's mother barry goes back in time to try and save
her but they're adding in all this multiverse story that wasn't part of
flashpoint flashpoint was an alternate timeline
created when flash saved his mother but the way they explained time travel
in that original story is that he didn't create a whole new
alternate reality that existed parallel to the original one he just rewrote the
original timeline they kind of use back to the future time
travel roles which avengers end game most of you know the marvel movies kind
of pissed on the way that they chose to explain it
was the alternate timelines theory saying that you can't actually change
the past you can only create alternate timelines that branch out from
that original moment so the flash movie director didn't
explain how they're going to do the multiverse of it all or if that's going to
happen in present day or if the flashpoint timeline will be like a
parallel universe but the multiverse is a very common
thing for the flash ezra miller had this big long interview a couple years ago
where he went on and on about how they're introducing the multiverse
during the movie i've done a couple videos about that because he's kind of
funny during the clip the flash was actually the first person
in dc comics to travel the multiverse one day he just accidentally travels to
earth 2 and met the jay garrick flash and learned about the justice society
alternate versions of the characters from the golden age
so in the flash movie when the flash travels the multiverse and meets michael
keaton's batman it'll be the present day keaton batman of that alternate world
the world of the tim burton batman movies and he'll be the older batman
beyond bruce wayne the flash movie director teased that
he'd have some stuff to show off some concept
art during dc fandom this weekend and there were some rumors that keaton's
batman costume during the movie would be the harness from kingdom come
like the much more armored up version of batman there was a big crisis on
infinite earth's deleted scene for michael keaton
they originally planned for him to be the version of kevin conroy's batman
during that wearing the kingdom come harness but i guess the keaton turned
them down i did a big deleted scene video for that
so i'll post a link for it in the description
but number three really important point here the movie is not going to use
flashpoint in ben affleck's scenes just to retcon him out of the dc eu
because that's kind of what flashpoint does they use it for retconning things
the main justice league earth batman will still be ben
affleck after the movie michael keaton's batman isn't going to rewrite that
history he'll just coexist and be another
version of a batman from the multiverse when he shows up again in another dc
movie but that being said this is being
pitched as ben affleck's farewell movie as batman his last major
appearance in a big dc movie and he's not supposed to be coming back
in the batman costume he's supposed to be coming back as bruce
wayne in the movie so it's them giving him a proper goodbye
as batman because he is back during the justice league snyder cut movie
but all that is stuff that he's already filmed a long time ago it's old footage
and it was intended to set up a bunch of justice league sequels so the flash
movie is just giving him a legit ending but just to be clear they're not killing
or retconning his batman they'll just give him an out point and explain
why it is that michael keaton's batman is just going to start showing up
a lot more all of a sudden the director didn't give any big spoilers away as to
whether ben affleck's batman will meet michael keaton's batman or if it's just
the flash who will meet him but it would be cool to see ben affleck share some
screen time with keaton's batman so number two when it comes to ben
affleck's actual scenes in the movie just expect a modified version of that
original justice league flashpoint ending scene with the letter
the director talked about how much batman and the flash share in common the
tragedy of both losing their mothers everyone posts all your martha memes
again but in the justice league snyder cut and in the theatrical cut batman was
kind of a mentor to the flash because he was so fresh he hadn't even started
calling himself the flash yet that was the whole thing during the crisis on
infinite earth scene the flash wow that's a cool name
but ben affleck's batman was teaching him how to save people day one superhero
school stuff so imagine that ben affleck's batman and
michael keaton's batman impart some wisdom to the flash about
dealing with the trauma of losing your parents as a child
because you have to remember that everything that happened to affleck's
batman also happened to keaton's batman they have the exact same origin story
but also don't be surprised if they have a little bit of fun with that idea too
the twist of the batman letter instead of older batman thomas wayne giving
advice to his son bruce wayne batman you have ben affleck's batman getting
advice from an older version of himself just from the multiverse who looks a
little bit different bruce wayne is in his 80s during the batman beyond
series but keaton is going to be playing him in his 60s
still old man batman but not quite as old as he was during the tv series
in number one as for live action batman beyond dc
fandom is this weekend and the flash movie director like you said did have
some stuff to show us so i'm hoping that includes some concept
art of michael keaton's older batman in his new batman suit and affleck's
batman in the movie and maybe what the new flash costume is
going to look like because he's probably going to show up
in the justice league suit at the beginning of the movie just because of
the timeline and then over the course of the film they'll just give him a new one
batman gets a new costume in every movie so should the flash
and even though i didn't talk about him during this movie cyborg is also
supposed to be in the flash movie so there's a whole lot of other stuff
going on during that movie but it's not coming out until 2022
and speaking of alternate costumes and multiverse the director didn't say
anything about grant gustin cameo scenes but i'm hoping that they find it just a
couple seconds for a quick grant gustin cameo
just to pay off the crisis on infinite earth scene
barry allen no what does that mean how can this this should be impossible
now to be impossible now you don't know about the oh my god don't
do this to me i don't know about the what
you okay i told victor this was possible like he
shows up and they just referenced meeting each other previously
what happened it's a whole thing i'll tell you in the next movie
by the time the flash movie comes out they'll also be winding down on the
flash tv show it'll be in its final seasons
let me know in the comments though what do you think about ben affleck coming
back we could talk about this all day but it's going to be crazy this
weekend with the new batman teaser we have justice league snyder cut trailer
zack snyder himself also dropped a new teaser this morning i'll do a video for
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thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe i'll see you guys tonight!