Ezra Miller and the Future of The Flash and the DC Extended Universe
Although Ezra Miller's apology is a promising beginning to a possible redemption story, that story may not have a happy ending.
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The actor finally spoke out about the recent arrests and reports of troubling behaviour on Monday. Miller, who plays Barry Allen/The Flash on "The Flash," a Warner Bros. Discovery show set to premiere in June 2023, revealed that he had "just gone through a moment of intense crisis" and was receiving help for "complicated mental health concerns."
The statement was released about two weeks after Warner Bros. Discovery scrapped its planned direct-to-streaming "Batgirl" film and said it was eyeing a reset of its DC Comics cinematic universe and one week after actor T.J. Miller was charged with felony burglary in Stamford, Vermont, the latest criminal offence on the actor's call sheet.
To compete with Marvel's The Avengers, the studio positioned The Justice League as a rival superhero team. However, the movie underperformed at the box office, and now several major stars, including Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman, have said they want out of the superhero genre. While Jason Momoa's Aquaman and Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman will be continuing their own series. Warner Bros. has announced that it will not be continuing the narrative established by Zack Snyder in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Snyder's version of The Justice League.
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Meanwhile, DC has been producing a flood of films that have zero continuity. The studio has launched three distinct Batman franchises, with Affleck in one, Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker in a pre-teen Bruce Wayne film, and Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader in another. To the best of our knowledge, each of these Batmen hails from a completely separate timeline.
The DC Extended Universe is a multiverse, just like the MCU. In the films, this has not been stated explicitly. In 2020, however, Walter Hamada, head of DC Films, outlined a strategy for the DCEU's future that entailed events happening in multiple universes that he called "Earth One," "Earth Two," etc.
Like Doctor Strange did in the MCU's Multiverse of Madness when he established and linked other universes, The Flash was supposed to connect all these different narratives and explain what the heck is going on in this cinematic world. Warner Bros. has confirmed that both Ben Affleck's Batman (from the Snyder films) and
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