Andy Muschietti Thinks The Flash Wasn’t Really for Everyone

After spending so long successful improvement hell, The Flash really came and went successful 2023, huh? Warner Bros. definite enactment a lot of effort into making definite radical knew it was coming, but audiences yet bounced off it beauteous hard amid a twelvemonth of superhero movies fizzling successful theaters.

To manager Andy Muschietti, the film’s biggest failing was that it didn’t afloat find its audience. In a translated interrogation with Argentinian outlet Radio TU, helium said it wasn’t a due “4-quadrant” movie: 1 that appealed to antheral and pistillate demographics some implicit and nether the property of 25 years old. “When you walk $200 cardinal making a movie, Warner wants to bring adjacent your grandma to theaters, and The Flash failed astatine that,” helium explained. And portion helium acknowledged different factors could’ve played a manus successful thngs, similar a lawsuit of superhero fatigue that twelvemonth and the troubling allegations surrounding pb histrion Ezra Miller astatine the time, helium felt not a batch of audiences attraction astir the Scarlet Speedster, “particularly 2 pistillate quadrants,” backed up by box bureau reports astatine the clip revealing its demographic divided leaned heavy towards men.

Sobre o fracasso de #TheFlash, o diretor, Andy Muschietti desabafa:

"Muitas pessoas não estão interessadas nary Flash como personagem, a metade pública disso os quatro quadrantes, os dois quadrantes femininos há muitas mulheres que não estão interessadas nary Flash como personagem" pic.twitter.com/XdFJsixxwp

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

Everyone had their ain idiosyncratic reasons for avoiding The Flash, be it everything surrounding Miller oregon conscionable reasoning it didn’t look similar assignment viewing. The spot astir folks not caring astir Flash is…well, the CW’s long-running amusement (which wrapped weeks earlier the movie hit) partially puts that to bed. What Muschietti apt means is that audiences didn’t attraction astir the DCEU version, which is besides a occupation with the movies. Miller’s instrumentality connected Barry Allen got immoderate cool enactment bits, but determination wasn’t truly thing to marque radical attraction astir him similar they did (and inactive do) with that universe’s different postulation of characters, oregon would-be heroes similar Green Lantern.

The Flash’s cinematic aboriginal is presently up successful the aerial close now, ditto immoderate DC quality not successful Superman or Muschietti’s Brave & the Bold. But if and erstwhile the speedster comes back, possibly marque a mentation of him radical similar that isn’t conscionable mostly cribbed from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man?

[via Flash Legacy Brasil]

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