The first-ever live-action Flash solo that has been stuck in Speed Force development hell, has a new director in Andi Muschietti (It, It: Chapter 2), which is expected to land in theaters on July 1, 2022. The first solo outing on the big screen for The Flash will be adapting the iconic Flashpoint storyline…but it won’t be the Flashpoint storyline we all know and love.
During a sitdown with That Hashtag Show, Mushetti discussed his work on the upcoming Flash film. Here Muschietti revealed that Flashpoint will be a different version than what fans are expecting. Thus confirming those early rumors that The Flash solo film will be an adaptation of Geoff John’s Flashpoint comic book storyline.
In the Flashpoint storyline, we see Barry Allen use the Speed Force to travel back in time to save his mother Nora Allen from dying at the hands of the Reverse Flash. In doing so, Barry causes a ripple effect that changes the entirety of the DC Universe as we know it. When Barry Allen returns to the present time he is now in a world he does not know. The Amazonians and The Atlanteans are at war. Bruce Wayne is dead and his father Thomas Wayne is now Batman, while his mother Martha Wayne is now the Joker, just to name a few things. The only way Barry can fix the timeline is by traveling back in time, allowing Reverse Flash to kill his mother in order to set things right.
When Mushetti says that his version of Flashpoint will be different. It begs to ask “how different?”. What drastic changes are in store for the story itself? This is a story that needs buildup, just how like The CW series The Flash built up to it when they also adapted the famous storyline. While more explicit details are scarce at the moment, we’ll have to wait and see how much will be changed from the source material to make it fit the Hollywood way of adapting huge storylines like these.
The Flash arrives in theaters July 1, 2022
Source: Full Circle Cinema