It appears like Batman‘s able to get nuts once more. Bruce Wayne first provided that chance again in 1989, when Michael Keaton delivered the traces “You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts!” in a scene with Jack Nicholson‘s Joker. Keaton put an up to date spin on the road when he reprised the position for The Flash in 2023, by which he performed an older, disillusioned Wayne pressured again into motion to avoid wasting the multiverse alongside Barry Allen (Ezra MIller).
Though Keaton’s return to the Batcave was a significant a part of the film, The Flash clearly isn’t a Batman film. But, the individuals who introduced him again will get extra time with the Darkish Knight quickly. We’ve lengthy identified that Flash director Andy Muschietti could be helming The Courageous and the Daring, the primary Batman movie in James Gunn‘s DCU. However we now know that he’ll be joined by The Flash screenwriter Christina Hodson.
Given the blended response to The Flash, that information will in all probability thrill half the individuals who hear it and disappoint the opposite half. Whereas The Flash enjoys a 63% constructive ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and made $271 million worldwide, it was hardly successful. Among the many knocks in opposition to it had been costs that the script was too sophisticated, a multiversal storyline that concerned a number of Batmen, a number of Flashes, and a number of Supermen, the latter represented by ill-considered CGI recreations of George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, and Nicolas Cage preventing an enormous mechanical spider.
Based mostly on the Flashpoint storyline from DC Comics, The Flash sees Barry Allen making an attempt to undo the wrongful conviction of his father (Ron Livingston) for the homicide of his mom (Maribel Verdú) by going again in time to stop the occasion from occurring. He creates a brand new actuality, one by which Batman is just not the man he is aware of from the Justice League (performed by Ben Affleck, who seems in a dreadful blue and gray costume within the movie’s first act) and Superman by no means arrived on Earth. But, Basic Zod (Michael Shannon) remains to be coming to invade the Earth as he did in Man of Metal. Barry recruits this actuality’s Batman, the retired weirdo performed by Keaton, and Supergirl (Sasha Calle), who has been hidden in a authorities facility. On the finish of the movie, Barry returns to his personal actuality, however recreates the multiverse within the course of, altering his world into one by which George Clooney is Batman, and creating Gunn’s DCU within the course of.
