Andy Muschietti Thinks The Flash Wasn’t Mass Market Sufficient

After spending so long in improvement hell, The Flash actually got here and went in 2023, huh? Warner Bros. certain put a lot of effort into ensuring folks knew it was coming, however audiences in the end bounced off it fairly exhausting amid a 12 months of superhero movies fizzling in theaters.

To director Andy Muschietti, the movie’s largest failing was that it didn’t absolutely discover its viewers. In a translated interview with Argentinian outlet Radio TU, he stated it wasn’t a correct “4-quadrant” film: one which appealed to female and male demographics each over and beneath the age of 25 years outdated. “Whenever you spend $200 million making a film, Warner needs to carry even your grandmother to theaters, and The Flash failed at that,” he defined. And whereas he acknowledged different elements may’ve performed a hand in thngs, like a case of superhero fatigue that 12 months and the troubling allegations surrounding lead actor Ezra Miller on the time, he felt not a number of audiences care in regards to the Scarlet Speedster, “significantly two feminine quadrants,” backed up by box office reports on the time revealing its demographic cut up leaned closely in the direction of males.

Sobre o fracasso de #TheFlash, o diretor, Andy Muschietti desabafa:

“Muitas pessoas não estão interessadas no Flash como personagem, a metade pública disso os quatro quadrantes, os dois quadrantes femininos há muitas mulheres que não estão interessadas no Flash como personagem” pic.twitter.com/XdFJsixxwp

— Flash Legacy Brasil (@FlashLegacyBR) January 12, 2025

Everybody had their very own particular person causes for avoiding The Flash, be it every little thing surrounding Miller or simply pondering it didn’t appear like appointment viewing. The bit about people not caring about Flash is…nicely, the CW’s long-running present (which wrapped weeks earlier than the film hit) partially places that to mattress. What Muschietti doubtless means is that audiences didn’t care in regards to the DCEU model, which can also be an issue with the flicks. Miller’s tackle Barry Allen obtained some cool action bits, however there wasn’t actually something to make folks care about him like they did (and nonetheless do) with that universe’s different assortment of characters, or would-be heroes like Green Lantern.

The Flash’s cinematic future is at the moment up within the air proper now, ditto any DC character not in Superman or Muschietti’s Brave & the Bold. But when and when the speedster comes again, possibly make a model of him folks like that isn’t simply principally cribbed from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man?

[via Flash Legacy Brasil]

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