{"id":980736,"date":"2025-10-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980736"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:33:25","slug":"batman-director-blames-bandwagons-the-flash-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/batman-director-blames-bandwagons-the-flash-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Batman Director Blames Bandwagons for The Flash’s Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On June 16, 2023, Barry Allen, the fastest man alive, raced into theaters with The Flash<\/a><\/em>. While he stuck around long enough for the movie to make back its production budget (but not its advertising budget), it soon limped away, putting an official end to the pre-James Gunn<\/a> DCEU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to director Andy Muschietti, it was everyone else’s fault. While on the press tour for his upcoming HBO Max<\/a> series It: Welcome to Derry<\/a>, <\/em>Muschietti told The Playlist<\/em><\/a> that bad word of mouth tripped up The Flash<\/em>. He continued, acknowledging the reality of the film\u2019s poor box office performance. “A lot of people did not see it. But you know how things are these days \u2014 people don\u2019t see things, but they like to talk s*** about it, and they like to jump on bandwagons,” he argued. “They don\u2019t really know. People are angry for reasons that are unrelated to these things.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t