‘The Flash’: New Trailer and Poster Revealed Ahead of CinemaCon Screening
(L-R) EZRA MILLER as Barry Allen/The Flash, SASHA CALLE as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl and EZRA MILLER as Barry Allen/The Flash in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “THE FLASH,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/™ & © DC Comics
During the Warner Bros. panel at CinemaCon, the studio released the second trailer for the hotly-anticipated The Flash, DC’s second movie of the year, and one that has been the source of many conversations.
During the presentation, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav called the film “the greatest superhero film I’ve ever seen”, with co-head of DC Studios James Gunn piling on by saying on social media “the movie is unbelievably good”. Moreover, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Cruise asked Zaslav to see the film back in February and said it is “everything you want in a movie” and “this is the kind of movie we need now”. With all of that in mind, check out the new trailer here:
Here is the new poster:
Andy Muschietti is directing from a script by Christina Hodson, and the studio’s confidence in what they have is off the charts. The movie doesn’t open until June 16, but they have decided to show an unfinished version at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, a yearly event attended by movie theater-owners and members of the press where studios bring snippets of their entire upcoming roster to try to sell it to the exhibitors. At least one movie is screened in its entirety every year, and in 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing in the big guns. (While the movie is said to be unfinished, that probably refers to visual and sound effects that need to be finalized, the edit is locked at this point in the game.)
The Flash stars Ezra Miller as Barry Allen/The Flash, who tries to travel back in time and save his mother (Maribel Verdú) from dying, but in turn causes havoc across the multiverse. The movie will bring two Batmans into the fold, with Ben Affleck having one last run as the DCEU’s Caped Crusader in a five-minute appearance, and Michael Keaton, who as seen in the trailer, is featured prominently. In his multiversal trips, Barry will cross paths with another Barry Allen from a different reality, and the two of them will spend the majority of the story in an alternate reality where Supergirl (Sasha Calle), instead of Superman, landed on Earth and was in charge of fighting Zod, in a recreation of 2013’s Man of Steel. Michael Shannon is back as Zod.
Here is the official synopsis for the film:
“Worlds collide in ‘The Flash’ when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?”
The Flash opens in theaters worldwide on June 16. The first reactions to the film will debut tonight.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
