Warner Bros. has hit yet another jumble on the road to creating their DC Extended Universe.Varietyreports thatThe Flashstandalone film—which was tentatively set to start filming in March—is now eyeing a late-2019 production date, which would place DC’s speediest hero in theaters sometime in 2021.
The issue seems to simply be one of bad timing. WB andJ.K. Rowlinghave insisted the world needs five installments of theFantastic Beastsfranchise, a Harry Potter spin-off that features Flash starEzra Miller—whoexplicitly insisted we call him"Sweet Bitch", you’re welcome, Ezra—in a prominent role. Production on the thirdFantastic Beastsfilm is set to kick off in July, a due date that Warner Bros. doesn’t think it could beat with the current draft of aFlashscript. OriginalFlashdirectorRick Famuyiwa(Dope) exited the project in 2016, but his replacements,Spider-Man: HomecomingwritersJohn Francis DaleyandJonathan Goldstein, are presumedly still on-board.
It’s not the biggest deal in the world, but it is just yet another classic day in the DCEU, which seems to go through ups and downs on the daily. The studio has two highly promising projects on the docket inJames Wan’sAquamanand the cheery-lookingShazam!,not to mention theChris Pine’s Track Pants-a-palooza known asWonder Woman 84in November 2019. But this same studio is currently developing two Joker movies, one of which isforcing extras to peeout the side of locked subway cars and the other, even more obscene, starsJared Leto.
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