The Flash director promises at least one big, long-awaited celebrity cameo
Michael Keaton isn't the only familiar famous face fans can expect to see when The Flash premieres next month
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Note: This article contains a spoiler for The Flash.
With less than a month left to go until The Flash hits theaters, the DC Universe’s Hail Mary pass raison d’etre is still successfully building hype in all the tried and true ways. Case in point: Director Andy Muschietti revealing a major actor has a cameo in the new film.
As Muschietti tells Esquire Middle East, Michael Keaton’s long-awaited return to the Batman suit—first revealed in the film’s trailer—isn’t the only high-profile surprise The Flash has in store. Per the director, Nicolas Cage will play Superman in the new film, almost 25 years after he was supposed to take on the role in a now-aptly titled Tim Burton film that never made it to screen. Superman Lives, indeed!
“Nic was absolutely wonderful,” Muschietti says of working with the actor. “Although the role was a cameo, he dove into it… I dreamt all my life to work with him. I hope I can work with him again soon.”
Muschietti adds: “He is a massive Superman fan. A comic book fanatic.” (Cage did, after all, name his youngest son Kal-El, the name Superman uses on his home planet of Krypton.)
Although he’s the newest and most notable, Cage’s Superman isn’t the only DCU hero set to appear in the story of The Flash/Barry Allen (Ezra Miller). Ben Affleck’s Batman (last seen in the infamous 2021 recut Zack Snyder’s Justice League) also features in the film.
Beyond Miller, Keaton, Cage, and Affleck, The Flash also stars Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, Kiersey Clemons, and Antje Traue. The film premieres in theaters on June 16—watch the latest trailer here.
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“As Muschietti tells Esquire Middle East, Michael Keaton’s long-awaited return to the Batman suit—first revealed in the film’s trailer—isn’t the only high-profile surprise The Flash has in store.”
1) Keaton is not a surprise. He’s been all over the trailers.
Also, if we’re talking about pretend surprises, doesn’t Affleck also count?
Just what I worry about with every Flash film: will there be enough cameos of different superheroes??
Any cameo that takes screen time away from Ezra Miller is okay by me.
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Even the comments section for this film has cameos. SMH
Yo dawg I heard you like cameos. So we put Cameo in your cameo so you can have a piece of the Cod Piece, Man!
We’re not watching it for Flash.
This Flash is still a by product of the Snyder era.
We’re not giving our money to flash, we want Keaton in that batsuit.
And once they see how much that man can still draw, they may finally make a true Keaton sequel.
And it might be the only great film Gunn will be allowed to make at DC.
No, plenty of us are watching a Flash film for Flash. And thankfully based on reviews this is a movie focused on Flash.
That’s lying because everyone has been looking forward to Grant Gustin replacing Ezra.
Go home, Zack, you’re drunk and going through your IMDB again.
The final villain reveal of the King of the Wicker People will blow your mind!
Oh, he better have the hair, even if it requires CGI.
He’s had a not too bad transplant recently by the look of it
I kinda wish I hadn’t read that, because that would have been a hell of a nice surprise in what I assume will be a mess of a film. Oh well. I’ll probably have forgotten by the time I see it.
You assume wrong.
god this movie is gonna suck.apparently adam west and chris reeves show up too.
if true that is so distasteful…
It’s not true.
i sincerely hope not.
I heard about Christoper Reeves from a spoiler. That one seems more true than Adam West.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised. Hopefully they’re just reusing old footage and not doing that terrible CGI reanimation shit.
not to fans of cameos!
If Reeve turns up I will physically leave the cinema.I’m of the generation for which Reeve is Superman you can cast the role as many times as you want, you can make more, brilliant movies using the character, they’ll all be actors in suits.Reeve is, and always will be Superman.
easiest way to leave the cinema is to not arrive in the first place.
I want to see Keaton on the big screen!
As much as I like Nic Cage, this isn’t enough to make me buy a ticket.
This is just a distraction, the actual massive cameo in The Flash is David Mazouz.
Wow they really have no faith in this thing, huh? Just like revealing Cavill was in Black Adam. Gotta spoil everything for the hype.
Just tag in Grant Gustin, already!
When the new franchise blows, proceed to fan service the shit out of it with the old ones that people liked (even the ones that didn’t make it out of pre-production, apparently).I still can’t believe how over-designed that Flash suit is. At least the JL suit was consistently busy and made sense as a DIY suit. This one has so many contrasting things going on and they’re all ugly.
The cameo is the Flash busting Ezra Miller for beating up random strangers in bars
Ok folks, here’s my prediction: The real mystery cameo is Fred Hembeck, he destroys the DCEU so Gunn can rebuild it from the ground up.
Feige would have killed this guy with a rattlesnake in a cooler for revealing this. WTF?
US President Jimmy Carter!
Why Nicolas Cage. He’s not Superman
It’s the Dead Milkmen showing up in a Bitchin’ Chevy. Learn to spellcheck.
What is it about the DC movies that makes them want to tell you “for the love of Christ come see out movie, look we did this brilliant surprise thing!”