'People Don't See Things, but They Like to Talk S*** About It’ — The Flash Director Reflects on DC Box Office Bomb

The Flash manager Andy Muschietti has defended his DC Extended Universe container bureau bomb, insisting radical “like to speech s***” astir films they haven’t seen.

2023 superhero movie The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, was a captious and commercialized flop, pulling successful conscionable $271 cardinal worldwide during its theatrical run. Both it and the full DCEU are present defunct too, with James Gunn spearheading a rebooted DCU.

But successful a caller interrogation with The Playlist to beforehand IT prequel bid Welcome To Derry, Muschietti insisted The Flash was a bully movie, and immoderate of the disapproval it suffered came from radical who hadn’t adjacent seen it.

“A batch of radical did not spot it,” helium said. “But you cognize however things are these days — radical don’t spot things, but they similar to speech s*** astir it, and they similar to leap connected bandwagons. They don’t truly know. People are aggravated for reasons that are unrelated to these things.”

Muschietti past acknowledged the interaction of Ezra Miller’s off-screen controversies connected the movie. “Of course, we had a publicity situation with Ezra that is undeniable,” helium said. “And I’m not questioning that. But yeah, we emotion the movie. And actually, we truly urge it.”

He continued: “And again, we emotion the movie. We, you know, we gave it our blood, sweat, and tears each the mode to the end. And I watched it, similar a week ago, and loved it again.”

In January, Muschietti said The Flash failed astatine the container bureau due to the fact that "a batch of radical conscionable don’t attraction astir the Flash arsenic a character."

Muschietti said the movie failed to entreaty to "the 4 quadrants" — a movie manufacture word meaning to entreaty to everyone — capable to warrant its $200 cardinal budget.

"The Flash failed, among each the different reasons, due to the fact that it wasn’t a movie that appealed to each 4 quadrants. It failed astatine that," Muschietti said. "When you walk $200 cardinal making a movie, [Warner Bros.] wants to bring adjacent your grandma to the theaters.

"I’ve recovered successful backstage conversations that a batch of radical conscionable don’t attraction astir the Flash arsenic a character. Particularly the 2 pistillate quadrants. All of that is conscionable the upwind going against the movie I’ve learned."

The 4 quadrants, arsenic defined by Hollywood, are males nether 25, males implicit 25, females nether 25, and females implicit 25.

Muschietti's notation of "all the different reasons" The Flash failed apt notation to its mediocre captious reception, disapproval of its reliance connected machine generated imagery (CGI) including to recreate deceased actors without consulting their family, its placement towards the extremity of a present defunct movie universe, and the contention surrounding Ezra Miller.

This seemingly hasn't stopped DC from keeping Muschietti around, however, arsenic helium is reportedly acceptable to nonstop The Brave and the Bold, the archetypal Batman movie successful James Gunn and Peter Safran's caller DC Universe.

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