Is Ezra Miller to blame for The Flash flopping? Andy Muschietti gives his thoughts on his freshman outing into the DC Universe.
The Flash will go down as one of the most infamous superhero movies of all time. Even ignoring the many, many problems brought to the film by its star Ezra Miller, fans simply had a lot of disagreements with how the project was handled. From using CGI and AI to recreate actors, to people feeling like Andy Muschietti really wanted to make a Batman movie instead, it was the worst of all worlds when it came to creating a film for a franchise like the DC Universe.
Yet it seems, even though The Flash remains panned among fans and critics alike, Andy Muschietti still remains proud of the work he did in the DC Universe. And while he understands that sometimes a project simply gets backlash, he added that he believes many who critiqued the film never even saw it.
“No, we just moved on and understood that sometimes there’s a headwind and a project that you dedicated a lot of work to,” Muschietti explained to The Playlist. “And we’re very proud of it. I think it’s a good movie. A lot of people did not see it. But you know how things are these days, like people don’t see things, but they like to talk s*** about it, and they like to jump on bandwagons. They don’t really know.”
How Ezra Miller Impacted The Flash
Of course, Andy Muschietti also admits that the film wasn’t without its challenges. The director remarks that Ezra Miller’s controversies certainly didn’t help the film. However, he was heartened by how much the heads of the DC Universe threw behind him to try to make The Flash a defining picture for the franchise.
“People are angry for reasons that are unrelated to these things. Of course, we had a publicity crisis with Ezra that is undeniable. And I’m not questioning that. But yeah, we love the movie. And actually, we really recommend it.”
“This may seem immaterial now, but we also had so much support from the studio, really, at a point where they could have been like, you know, backing out because of all the issues we were having with publicity. And they went all in, and we all went all in.”
While it’s a shame that The Flash didn’t come together in the way Andy Muschietti and Ezra Miller were likely hoping, it did serve as a lesson to the DC Universe going forward: sometimes the most flashy things that sound the best to fans on paper aren’t guaranteed to come out good.
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