DC Studios head James Gunn made it very clear that he’s a huge fan of director Andy Muschietti’s The Flash movie. He previously said that it is “probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made.” With that being the case, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Gunn wants to continue to work with Muschietti on future DC film projects.
Gunn explained: “What we did, we’re very close with Andy and Barbara, the director and producer. And he’s one of the guys that he’s going to be doing some more stuff for us. And he’s just done something really spectacular with that movie.”
Peter Safran also revealed that he and Gunn did have some input on The Flash, but they didn’t do or add anything that would set up this new DC Cinematic Universe they are building. He said: “We had input on it for sure, but there’s nothing we had to do in order to set up our universe.”
As we all know, the movie is going to break open the DC multiverse, and the director previously teased “all that you’ve seen exists.” The Flash will see Barry Allen “breaking the bonds of physics to crash into various parallel dimensions, where he’ll encounter slightly different versions of DC’s classic heroes.”
With The Flash being such an impressive movie for Gunn, there’s a chance they will want to keep The Flash around in their plans, and that could very well involve Ezra Miller returning to the role. But, that won’t be decided right now as Miller is in the process of getting the help they need after their erratic behavior.
Regardless of that, Muschietti is a talented filmmaker who has made some great movies, and it’s nice to know that he’ll be directing some more DC projects in the future.
Miller will be joined by Ben Affleck as Batman, Michael Keaton as Batman, and Sasha Calle as Supergirl, along with several other members of the DC universe cast. The Flash will be released June 23rd, 2023.