One interestingly odd bit of information that came out of San Diego this weekend is that The Flash movie is going to be based on Flashpoint, the story-line in which Flash inadvertently massively changes the timeline/reality.
My first thought was, "Well, that's stupid. You're going to have him change things before we even see his world before the change? Kinda kills the impact."
Seriously - choosing a story-line that's whole point was to shake up the status quo seems like a terribly poor choice for the movie that establishes the status quo. It would be very typical of a lot of Hollywood thinking, to go jump straight into Big Events without ever giving us the character build up that makes us give a damn about the event. This holds especially true for Warner Brothers and their hurry-and-catch-up attitude towards the DCEU.
But... (here comes the deluded optimist part of my fractured brain) ...what if?
What if this will be their attempt to fix things. What if this is a plan to abandon the dark Elseworlds universe they've been trapped in since Man Of Steel? What if the reset at the end of the movie brings us a recognizable version of Superman? Fan reaction to Tyler Hoechlin's version on Supergirl must have been a hell of a shock to the WB movie heads.
Sure, they'd still have to deal with the painful stupidity part of the stories (another day), but this could be one hell of a head start if they were going to take advantage of this opportunity for a course correction, eh?
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