Warner Bros. is Retaining Its Ending Secret

In two weeks time, Warner Bros. will lastly launch The Flash, its loooooooong in improvement superhero film. A lot of the film’s advertising has been enjoying up the film as an epic team-up between Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, Michael Keaton’s returning Batman, and newcomer Sasha Calle as Supergirl. You’d suppose there wouldn’t be the rest within the film that may actually be shock worthy, given we all know the general endpoint of the film (and at the least one cameo), however WB is outwardly holding mum on some issues.

Per Variety, WB’s reportedly bought a “secret ending” it’s making an attempt to maintain a lid on as a lot as potential, to the purpose the place there’s solely one premiere set for just a few days earlier than the film’s launch. When the film premiered at CinemaCon in April, it had a good quantity of its last scene lacking and ended fairly abruptly. However extra lately, WB’s been making an energetic effort to cover no matter’s within the movie’s closing moments: forward of CinemaCon, the ultimate scene was modified a handful of occasions, and more moderen screenings in Burbank had key parts blurred out. A part of that is reportedly as a consequence of Miller: WB reportedly desires to “hold its choices open” on the prospect that it must recast in mild of their PR points (and subsequent ongoing restoration course of).

It’s an fascinating distinction in comparison with how WB’s dealt with its final two DC Comics motion pictures. The studio had no hassle placing within the respective cameos held in Black Adam (Henry Cavill’s Superman) and Shazam: Fury of the Gods (Gal Gadot’s Surprise Lady) within the advertising for these motion pictures. Each of these cameos have been supposed as incentives to get audiences to see these particular motion pictures, so the query for The Flash is, what’s totally different right here? Is it truly a considerable recreation changer or only a bog-standard “we’re planting our flags for some future stuff that’ll perhaps come to fruition relying on how the following few months go”? We’ll discover out when The Flash involves theaters on June 16.

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