{"id":217951,"date":"2025-10-16T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217951\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:44:08","slug":"people-dont-see-things-but-they-like-to-talk-s-about-it-the-flash-director-reflects-on-dc-box-office-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217951\/","title":{"rendered":"‘People Don’t See Things, but They Like to Talk S*** About It\u2019 \u2014 The Flash Director Reflects on DC Box Office Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Flash<\/a> director Andy Muschietti has defended his DC Extended Universe box office bomb, insisting people \u201clike to talk s***\u201d about films they haven\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n

2023 superhero movie The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, was a critical and commercial flop, pulling in just $271 million worldwide<\/a> during its theatrical run. Both it and the entire DCEU are now defunct too, with James Gunn spearheading a rebooted DCU.<\/p>\n

But in a new interview with The Playlist<\/a> to promote IT prequel series Welcome To Derry, Muschietti insisted The Flash was a good movie, and some of the criticism it suffered came from people who hadn\u2019t even seen it.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people did not see it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut 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. They don\u2019t really know. People are angry for reasons that are unrelated to these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muschietti then acknowledged the impact of Ezra Miller\u2019s off-screen controversies on the movie. \u201cOf course, we had a publicity crisis with Ezra that is undeniable,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not questioning that. But yeah, we love the movie. And actually, we really recommend it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cAnd again, we love the movie. We, you know, we gave it our blood, sweat, and tears all the way to the end. And I watched it, like a week ago, and loved it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In January, Muschietti said The Flash failed at the box office because “a lot of people just don\u2019t care about the Flash as a character.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Muschietti said the film failed to appeal to “the four quadrants” \u2014 a movie industry term meaning to appeal to everyone \u2014 enough to justify its $200 million budget.<\/p>\n

“The Flash failed, among all the other reasons, because it wasn\u2019t a movie that appealed to all four quadrants. It failed at that,” Muschietti said. “When you spend $200 million making a movie, [Warner Bros.] wants to bring even your grandmother to the theaters.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve found in private conversations that a lot of people just don\u2019t care about the Flash as a character. Particularly the two female quadrants. All of that is just the wind going against the film I\u2019ve learned.”<\/p>\n

The four quadrants, as defined by Hollywood, are males under 25, males over 25, females under 25, and females over 25.<\/p>\n

Muschietti’s mention of “all the other reasons” The Flash failed likely refer to its poor critical reception, criticism of its reliance on computer generated imagery (CGI)<\/a> including to recreate deceased actors without consulting their family<\/a>, its placement towards the end of a now defunct film universe, and the controversy surrounding Ezra Miller.<\/p>\n

This seemingly hasn’t stopped DC from keeping Muschietti around, however, as he is reportedly set to direct The Brave and the Bold<\/a>, the first Batman film in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Universe.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flash director Andy Muschietti has defended his DC Extended Universe box office bomb, insisting people \u201clike to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-217951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}