After spending so long in improvement hell, The Flash actually got here and went in 2023, huh? Warner Bros. positive put a lot of effort into ensuring folks knew it was coming, however audiences finally bounced off it fairly laborious amid a 12 months of superhero movies fizzling in theaters.
To director Andy Muschietti, the movie’s largest failing was that it didn’t totally discover its viewers. In a translated interview with Argentinian outlet Radio TU, he mentioned it wasn’t a correct “4-quadrant” film: one which appealed to female and male demographics each over and underneath the age of 25 years previous. “Whenever you spend $200 million making a film, Warner desires to deliver even your grandmother to theaters, and The Flash failed at that,” he defined. And whereas he acknowledged different components may’ve performed a hand in thngs, like a case of superhero fatigue that 12 months and the troubling allegations surrounding lead actor Ezra Miller on the time, he felt not plenty of audiences care concerning the Scarlet Speedster, “notably two feminine quadrants,” backed up by box office reports on the time revealing its demographic break up leaned closely in direction of males.
Sobre o fracasso de #TheFlash, o diretor, Andy Muschietti desabafa:
“Muitas pessoas não estão interessadas no Flash como personagem, a metade pública disso os quatro quadrantes, os dois quadrantes femininos há muitas mulheres que não estão interessadas no Flash como personagem” pic.twitter.com/XdFJsixxwp
— Flash Legacy Brasil (@FlashLegacyBR) January 12, 2025
Everybody had their very own particular person causes for avoiding The Flash, be it the whole lot surrounding Miller or simply pondering it didn’t seem like appointment viewing. The bit about of us not caring about Flash is…effectively, the CW’s long-running present (which wrapped weeks earlier than the film hit) partially places that to mattress. What Muschietti doubtless means is that audiences didn’t care concerning the DCEU model, which can be an issue with the flicks. Miller’s tackle Barry Allen bought some cool action bits, however there wasn’t actually something to make folks care about him like they did (and nonetheless do) with that universe’s different assortment of characters, or would-be heroes like Green Lantern.
The Flash’s cinematic future is at the moment up within the air proper now, ditto any DC character not in Superman or Muschietti’s Brave & the Bold. But when and when the speedster comes again, perhaps make a model of him folks like that isn’t simply largely cribbed from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man?
[via Flash Legacy Brasil]
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