The marketing for the long, long, long-awaited DCU outing, The Flash, is finally ramping up. Following this weekend’s trailer, which came as a part of the Super Bowl, several new character posters have now been released and offer a closer look at Ezra Miller as Barry Allen aka The Flash, Sasha Calle as Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl, and Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne aka Batman. Check out the new posters, which come courtesy of the official Twitter account for The Flash, below.
Each poster gives one of the movie’s central trio the spotlight, and provides a close-up of the characters and the super-suits they will sport when attempting to put the multiverse back together again. “Worlds Collide,” reads the tagline on each poster, with both Flash and Supergirl cutting particularly poignant figures as they no doubt wonder where to begin with the mess that has been created.
Looking much more confident though is Michael Keaton’s Batman, who stares right at us while putting on that classic Keaton-pout. The poster gives us a much clearer look at his newest costume, which once again includes a bright yellow symbol at its center. It also looks like, even after all these decades, he still has not worked out how to make a cowl that allows him to turn his head.
Keaton is all set to reprise the role of both Bruce Wayne and Batman after more than three decades. Despite all the time that has passed, the actor was surprised by how well the cape and cowl fit. “It was shockingly normal. It was weird. Like I went, ‘Oh, oh yeah, that’s right’,” Keaton explained. “But also then you start to play the scenes, and it was a lot of memories, a lot of interesting sense memories.”
The Flash Will Unleash the Madness of the DC Multiverse
Thanks to the newly released trailer, which fans continue to scrutinize on social media, we now have a much better idea of what to expect when The Flash lands in theaters later this year. A new, much more detailed synopsis for the movie has also now been unveiled, and offers further clues and information regarding how The Flash will use the comic book arc Flashpoint as inspiration.
“Worlds collide in “The Flash” when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to,” the new synopsis reads. “That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?”
Directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, The Flash stars Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, Kiersey Clemons, Antje Traue, and Michael Keaton, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 16, 2023.
