
We’ll see what shakes out when The Flash opens in theaters, which is currently scheduled to happen on November 4, 2022. in this series yet his existence still has a subtle impact on the plot. At some point in Hollywood, everything comes back. of major storylines featuring the Flash (Wally West) throughout DC Comics. They want everything to exist together simultaneously, like No Way Home. So the notion that The Flash will completely erase all those previous movies from existence seems very unlikely. Just last month, Spider-Man: No Way Home showed that it’s possible to combine different movie universes without erasing them entirely from existence.

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On the other hand, some of these DCEU franchises are clearly going to continue there’s another Shazam! movie coming out soon, and there’s been plenty of talk of another Wonder Woman movie as well. So it would be surprising if The Flash wasn’t Affleck’s final appearance as the Dark Knight. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, but also features Michael Keaton as the older version of Bruce Wayne and Batman he’ll be reintroducing in The Flash. Ben Affleck has also said recently that he’s done with “ IP movies” and you can’t really be done with IP movies and keep grinding out Batman appearances every couple of years.


Others claim The Flash completely erases the previous DC Extended Universe movies - which started with Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and continued with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman, Shazam, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman 1984, and The Suicide Squad - and creates a new Justice League out of some of the new characters introduced in The Flash.Īt least some of that lines up with what we know about the other big DC movie in development, the solo Batgirl movie. Per TMZ, “a handful of movie insiders claiming to have seen a cut of the new Flash film,” say, among other things, that the movie marks the final appearances of Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman.
