The Flash was a movie that featured a lot of CGI — some well received, some less so. Director Andy Muschietti has come out to defend some of the more controversial CGI scenes, saying that the weirdness was intended.
Readers beware! Major spoilers for The Flash are beyond this point!
In many respects, The Flash is a triumph of CGI for nearly seamlessly putting two versions of Ezra Miller acting against each other for nearly the whole movie. However, not every effect was up to snuff, with many fans mocking the ending cameos for having graphics closer to a PS2 game than a blockbuster. Andy Muschietti has defended these scenes, insisting that the weirdness was on purpose due to viewers seeing them through Barry Allen’s perspective:
“The idea, of course, is…we are in the perspective of the Flash,” he tells Gizmodo. “Everything is distorted in terms of lights and textures. We enter this ‘waterworld’ which is basically being in Barry’s POV. It was part of the design so if it looks a little weird to you that was intended.”
There’s no way to truly tell if Andy Muschietti is telling the truth on the CGI looking that way on purpose. However, many fans will likely continue to hold their criticism, pointing out that, even if that was the intent, the end result still didn’t look good. Given the current box office performance of The Flash, it seems as though fans are sitting in that latter camp.
The Flash’s DC Universe future
Warner Bros. Discovery already has a script for a potential sequel to The Flash, written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the man behind the two Aquaman movies starring Jason Momoa. However, James Gunn and Peter Safran did not discuss the Flash sequel during their DC Universe presentation.
Directed by Andy Muschietti from a script written by Birds of Prey scribe Christina Hodson, The Flash is inspired by the Flashpoint comic book storyline, which followed Barry Allen as he navigated an altered DC Universe. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Andy Kuber, Flashpoint radically altered the status of the DC Comics universe and led to the launch of the New 52 titles.
In addition to Ezra Miller, The Flash also features Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck as two separate versions of Batman, Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, Maribel Verdú as Nora Allen, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Antje Traue as Faora-Ul and Sasha Calle as Supergirl. Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Rudy Mancuso and Luke Brandon Field are also on board in undisclosed roles.
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