Andy Muschietti Thinks The Flash Wasn’t Really for Everyone

After spending so long development hell, Flash 2023 really came and went, huh? Warner Bros. confirmed a A lot of effort To make sure people knew it was coming, but ultimately the audience Bounce off It is quite difficult in a year Superhero movies A blur in the theater.

to the director Andy MuschiettiThe biggest failure of the film is that it didn’t quite find its audience. A translated In an interview with Argentine outlet Radio TU, he said it’s not a proper “4-quadrant” film: it appeals to the 25-and-under male and female demographic. “When you spend $200 million to make a movie, Warner wants to bring even your grandmother to the theater, and Flash That failed,” he explained. And while he admitted that other factors could have played a hand as well, such as the superhero fatigue phenomenon of that year and the worrisome allegations surrounding the lead actor. Ezra Miller At the time, he felt that the Scarlet Speedster, supported by “especially the two female quadruplets,” didn’t care much about the audience. Box office report Revealing its demographic breakdown was heavily skewed towards men.

about failure #FlashDirector, Andy Muschietti said:

“A lot of people aren’t interested in the Flash as a character, the universal half of it is the four quadrants, there are two female quadrants. There are a lot of women who aren’t interested in the Flash as a character.” pic.twitter.com/XdFJsixxwp

— Flash Legacy Brazil (@FlashLegacyBR) January 12, 2025

Each had their own unique reasons for avoiding flash, Be it everything around Miller Or just doesn’t seem like an appointment to see. One thing people don’t care about The Flash is…well, The CW’s long-running show (which covered weeks before the movie hit) partially put to bed. What Muschietti probably means is that audiences don’t care about the DCEU version, which is also a problem with the movies. Miller’s take on Barry Allen got something Bit of cool actionBut there wasn’t really anything that made people care about him the way they did (and still do) with a collection of other characters in that universe, or like would-be heroes. green lantern.

The Flash’s cinematic future is up in the air right now, not with any DC character superman or of Muschieti Bold and courageous. But if and when the speedster comes back, maybe make a version of him that isn’t just mostly cribbed from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man?

[via Flash Legacy Brasil]

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