THE FLASH shot THREE different endings, including Henry Cavill; Details on how it happened (SPOILER) Cameo

The flash It ends with Scarlet Speedster clearing her father’s name, but what Barry Allen thought would be a minor timeline change actually has major consequences. Instead of Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne, there’s a Batman the hero doesn’t recognize but the fans do; George Clooney’s Caped Crusader.

You might think a moment like this was years in the making, but as the hollywood reporter explain, it was not like The flash it was supposed to end. The first version was shot when Walter Hamada and Toby Emmerich were at the helm at Warner Bros. and DC Films. the flash 2 and crisis on infinite earths were planned at the time, and on those courtroom steps, Barry would have met Michael Keaton’s Bruce and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl.

The point was to show that Barry hadn’t successfully reset the timeline after all, reversing both characters’ deaths earlier in the film in the process.

Unfortunately, when changes were made during Discovery’s acquisition of the studio, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy decided to take a different route. In that ending, Keaton and Calle were joined by Henry Cavill’s Superman and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. even if it’s a plan supergirl The movie had been scrapped, the idea being to leave the door open for Calle to play the character again elsewhere in the DCEU. Diana Prince, meanwhile, was there to play wonder woman 3and the scene was shot last September.

A couple of months later, the new CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, appointed James Gunn and Peter Safran to run DC Studios. They, too, had some notes, and with a DCU reboot on the horizon, they both worried about teasing a future that would never materialize. They started brainstorming ideas and decided to stick with the basic idea of ​​leaving Barry in a bind.

So Gunn and Safran contacted Clooney’s agent, and after being shown the film, the actor agreed to do a cameo. That was filmed in January with the batman and robin star sharing the screen with Ezra Miller. That was the same day that they met with De Luca and Abdy to discuss his multiple arrests. Miller and Clooney reportedly hit it off with the former offering some advice on how to handle being in the public eye.

“It’s rare that you have a movie in post-production facing three separate regimes with three separate agendas.” says an informant. “None of them were scrapped out of ill will, just different visions.”

The flashwith its third ending, it is already on the billboard.