Andy Muschietti Thinks The Flash Wasn’t Actually for Everybody

After spending so long in growth hell, The Flash actually got here and went in 2023, huh? Warner Bros. positive put a lot of effort into ensuring folks knew it was coming, however audiences in the end bounced off it fairly onerous amid a yr of superhero movies fizzling in theaters.

To director Andy Muschietti, the movie’s greatest failing was that it didn’t totally discover its viewers. In a translated interview with Argentinian outlet Radio TU, he mentioned it wasn’t a correct “4-quadrant” film: one which appealed to female and male demographics each over and below the age of 25 years outdated. “Whenever you spend $200 million making a film, Warner needs to deliver even your grandmother to theaters, and The Flash failed at that,” he defined. And whereas he acknowledged different elements may’ve performed a hand in thngs, like a case of superhero fatigue that yr and the troubling allegations surrounding lead actor Ezra Miller on the time, he felt not a variety of audiences care concerning the Scarlet Speedster, “notably two feminine quadrants,” backed up by box office reports on the time revealing its demographic cut up leaned closely in direction of males.

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

“Muitas pessoas não estão interessadas no Flash como personagem, a metade pública disso os quatro quadrantes, os dois quadrantes femininos há muitas mulheres que não estão interessadas no Flash como personagem” pic.twitter.com/XdFJsixxwp

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

Everybody had their very own particular person causes for avoiding The Flash, be it all the things surrounding Miller or simply considering it didn’t seem like appointment viewing. The bit about of us not caring about Flash is…effectively, the CW’s long-running present (which wrapped weeks earlier than the film hit) partially places that to mattress. What Muschietti probably means is that audiences didn’t care concerning the DCEU model, which can be an issue with the flicks. Miller’s tackle Barry Allen obtained some cool action bits, however there wasn’t actually something to make folks care about him like they did (and nonetheless do) with that universe’s different assortment of characters, or would-be heroes like Green Lantern.

The Flash’s cinematic future is presently up within the air proper now, ditto any DC character not in Superman or Muschietti’s Brave & the Bold. But when and when the speedster comes again, perhaps make a model of him folks like that isn’t simply largely cribbed from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man?

[via Flash Legacy Brasil]

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