by the time The flash Arriving in theaters in 2023 after years of delays, it was old news. James Gunn and Peter Safran had has already been designated as new co-heads of DC Studios and were planning a relaunch of the superhero universe that owed nothing to Zack Snyder. justice leaguethat issued Ezra Miller like the scarlet speedster. The flash It ended up making around $270 million at the worldwide box office, little more than its roughly $200 million budget.
In a new interview with Radio Tu’s YouTube program The Coso Storage, The flash director Andy Muschietti He explained why he believes the film failed at the box office. One reason, according to Muschietti, is that The flash it did not attract a wide enough audience to recoup its huge budget.
“When you make a $200 million movie, the studio wants to even bring your grandmother to the movies,” Muschietti said, through an English translation. “Then I discovered things like this: there are a lot of people who are not interested in the character of Flash… there are a lot of women who are not interested in Flash as a character… but I am very happy with the movie.”
There was also controversy surrounding Miller, who was arrested several times in Hawaii for public unrest in 2022 and was charged with harass minors in several occasions. That August, Miller (who uses they/them pronouns) said in a statement that they had “begun ongoing treatment,” but did not grant any promotional interviews for The flash before its release despite making a strange appearance at the premiere of the film.
“As many people know, we had a publicity crisis with the lead actor, which is Ezra Miller, who got into trouble due to a mental health situation,” Muschietti said. “When you make a movie, there really are things you can’t control, and one of them is when actors have a PR crisis… I had, overall, a very good experience with them. They are a great actor. and a great comedian.”
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Colin Bentley/The CW Grant Gustin as Barry Allen in ‘The Flash’
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And yet, the character proved quite popular on television, where The flash aired for 9 seasons on The CW as part of the Arrowverse which also included DC superhero shows like Arrow and legends of tomorrow (it finally came to an end with the superman and lois end last year). Although there have been multiple incarnations of the superhero throughout DC Comics’ history, Miller and the television shows Grant Gustin They both played Barry Allen, a forensic scientist who gains super speed after being struck by lightning and a bunch of chemicals. So it may not have been a matter of disgust so much as fatigue, especially since the film’s plot largely revolved around multiverses, which audiences had already begun to tire of following. Everything everywhere and at the same timeWin the Oscar.
Watch Muschietti’s full interview below.
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