The Flash Movie DELAYED⚡#shorts
84,511The Flash has had a difficult road to the big screen. Take a look at all the creative behind-the-scenes changes and release dates the film has had.
The Flash is one of the most iconic DC superheroes in existence. There have been multiple characters who have taken on the mantle of the Scarlet Speedster in the comics, and the character is synonymous in pop culture with the concept of super speed. With an easily recognizable character, and with the popularity of superhero movies at its peak, it would seem like making The Flash movie would be incredibly easy, especially when Ezra Miller was first cast in 2014.
Yet despite the character being the fastest man alive, the road to the big screen has been a difficult one for The Flash. While the character appeared in Justice League, his solo film has seen multiple starts and stops over the years in the film's production cycle, with a popular TV version of The Flash airing on The CW through premiere and possible ending before the movie even hits the big screen. Both Aquaman and Shazam will have had two solo films before The Flash even gets one. Yet it appears the film is finally set to open in theaters.
How many times has the movie been delayed? What were the causes for the various production hiccups? How many creative voices have been attached to the movie before the landing on the current team? These are all the release dates The Flash has had and why they changed.
The Flash - March 23, 2018
While attempts to make a movie based on The Flash had been around since the 1990s, it was not until the DCEU launched with Man of Steel that the production started to gain traction. In October 2014, Warner Bros. announced a massive slate of films from Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, two Justice League films, Shazam, Cyborg, and of course The Flash. It was here that star Ezra Miller was announced as playing the speedster superhero alongside the first official release date was announced, March 23, 2018. Interestingly, the announcement of the movie arrived just one week before The Flash TV series on The CW would air, with many wondering if the film's announcement and eventual release would overshadow the television series.
In 2015, The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote a pitch for The Flash, and while they considered directing it eventually decided to direct Solo: A Star Wars Story (the duo would eventually depart that movie in the middle of filming). In October 2015, Seth Grahame-Smith, who had written the popular books Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and also wrote the script for the Warner Bros.
The Flash - March 16, 2018
Two years after The Flash was announced Warner Bros. moved up the release by a week to March 16, 2018. By this point though, Seth Grahame-Smith had departed the project, citing creative differences. In June 2016, Rick Famuyiwa (Dope) signed on to direct, and it was during his time with the film that Kiersey Clemons was cast as Iris West and Billy Crudup as Barry Allen's father Henry Allen. Both actors would film cameos in Justice League setting up the planned Flash movie, however, Clemons's role was cut from the theatrical release but restored in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
After working on the film for five months, even making an appearance at DC's 2016 Comic-Con presentation, Famuyiwa would drop out of directing, citing creative differences with the studio. With the director's departure, the negative reaction to Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad that year, the fact that star Ezra Miller was about to begin filming Fantastic Beast: The Crimes of Grindlewald, and that they would not be able to find a director to meet their original release date, Warner Bros. opted for a page one rewrite of the script.
The Flash - July 1, 2022
In 2017, Warner Bros. began looking at a number of different directors including Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class), Sam Raimi (Spider-Man), Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man), and Jordan Peele (Get Out). It was at this point the film would be developed as a Flashpoint movie, based on the popular 2011 comic series that saw Barry Allen rewrite the entire timeline and eventually lead to a reboot of the DC Comics universe with The New 52. This indicated that the film would be Warner Brothers' attempt to reboot the DCEU.
As well as dates such as:
The Flash - June 3, 2022
The Flash - November 4, 2022
Before landing on June 23, 2023.
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