Andy Muschietti believed that Flash wasn’t really for everyone

After spending We will miss you In development hell Flash Really came and went in 2023, huh? Warner Bros. Definitely put a A lot of effort To make sure people know it’s coming, but ultimately the fans recoil It’s very difficult within a year of Superhero movies Fade in theaters.

To the exit Andy MuschiettiThe film’s biggest failure was that it never fully found its audience. In a translator In an interview with Argentine radio TU, he said that it was not a suitable “four quadrants” film: a film that appeals to the male and female demographics over 25 and under. “When you spend $200 million on a movie, Warner wants to bring even your grandmother to the theaters, and… Flash He explained that he failed to do so. While he acknowledged that other factors could play a role in these matters, such as the state of superhero burnout that year and the troubling allegations surrounding the lead actor Ezra Miller At the time, he felt that a lot of audiences didn’t care for the Scarlet Speedster, “especially the female quadrants,” backed by Box office reports At the time, the demographic split was skewed heavily toward men.

About quarreling #flashHey Manager Andy Muschietti Disabava:

“A lot of people don’t care about Flash as a character, it’s a general description of four-quarters of women, and they have many four-quarters of women who aren’t interested in Flash as a character.” pic.twitter.com/XdFJsixxwp

– Flash Legacy Brazil (@FlashLegacyBR) January 12, 2025

Everyone had their individual reasons for avoiding it flash, Whether everything is surrounding Miller Or just think it doesn’t seem like a date show. The thing about people not caring about the Flash is…well, it’s a long-running CW show (which Wrapped Weeks before the movie comes out) partly puts that to bed. What Muschietti likely means is that audiences didn’t care about the DCEU version, which is also a problem with the movies. Miller got Barry Allen some Bit cool workbut there wasn’t really anything that made people care about him the way they did (and still do) with the cast of other characters in that universe, or potential heroes like Green Lantern.

The cinematic future of the Flash is currently up in the air at the moment, as is the case with any non-existent DC character Superman Or Moschetti The brave and the bold. But if the speedster comes back, maybe people will make a version of him like this that isn’t mostly limited to imitating Tom Holland’s Spider-Man?

(via Flash Legacy Brazil)

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