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In two weeks time, Warner Bros. will lastly launch The Flash, its loooooooong in improvement superhero film. A lot of the film’s advertising and marketing has been taking part in up the film as an epic team-up between Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, Michael Keaton’s returning Batman, and newcomer Sasha Calle as Supergirl. You’d suppose there wouldn’t be the rest within the film that may actually be shock worthy, given we all know the final endpoint of the film (and not less than one cameo), however WB is seemingly maintaining mum on some issues.
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Per Selection, WB’s reportedly obtained a “secret ending” it’s attempting to maintain a lid on as a lot as doable, to the purpose the place there’s just one premiere set for a number of days earlier than the film’s launch. When the film premiered at CinemaCon in April, it had an honest quantity of its closing scene lacking and ended fairly abruptly. However extra lately, WB’s been making an lively effort to cover no matter’s within the movie’s closing moments: forward of CinemaCon, the ultimate scene was modified a handful of occasions, and newer screenings in Burbank had key components blurred out. A part of that is reportedly as a result of Miller: WB reportedly needs to “preserve its choices open” on the prospect that it must recast in gentle of their PR points (and subsequent ongoing restoration course of).
It’s an attention-grabbing distinction in comparison with how WB’s dealt with its final two DC Comics motion pictures. The studio had no hassle placing within the respective cameos held in Black Adam (Henry Cavill’s Superman) and Shazam: Fury of the Gods (Gal Gadot’s Marvel Lady) within the advertising and marketing for these motion pictures. Each of these cameos had been meant as incentives to get audiences to see these particular motion pictures, so the query for The Flash is, what’s totally different right here? Is it really a considerable recreation changer or only a bog-standard “we’re planting our flags for some future stuff that’ll perhaps come to fruition relying on how the following few months go”? We’ll discover out when The Flash involves theaters on June 16.
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