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The Flash (film)

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The Flash
The Flash 2023 Only in June Poster
Director: Andy Muschietti
Producer: Walter Hamada
Michael Disco
Zack Snyder
Deborah Snyder
Andy Muschietti
Barbara Muschietti
Marianne Jenkins
Writer(s): Christina Hodson
Story by:
Christina Hodson
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
Release Date: June 16, 2023
Running Time: 144 minutes
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The Flash is the thirteenth film in the DC Extended Universe about Barry Allen in an alternate timeline after traveling back in time to save his mother and must deal with the consequences.

Plot

After helping Bruce Wayne / Batman and Diana Prince / Wonder Woman stop a robbery gone wrong, Barry Allen / The Flash revisits his childhood home. There, he remembers his childhood with parents Nora and Henry, before Henry's wrongful imprisonment for Nora's murder. Overcome by his emotions, Barry accidentally travels back in time to earlier in the day and informs Bruce about it. Despite Bruce's warnings that time travel can have unintended consequences, Barry goes back to the day of Nora's death and prevents it from happening.

As Barry returns to the present, he is knocked out of the Speed Force by another Speedster and ends up in an alternate 2013 where his mother is alive. He finds his past self and realizes he has arrived on the day he originally obtained his powers. Barry and his 2013 counterpart go to the Central City Police Department, where Barry forces 2013-Barry to be struck by lightning, giving 2013-Barry powers, but losing his own powers in the process. As Barry struggles to train 2013-Barry to use his powers, the two of them see a broadcast by General Zod, who is preparing to invade Earth.

The Barrys attempt to assemble the Justice League but are unsuccessful as in this timeline, they are unable to locate Wonder Woman, Victor Stone has not been in his accident yet, and Arthur Curry was never born. The two travel to Wayne Manor, hoping to find Batman, but instead find an older version of Bruce Wayne who has retired from crimefighting. They convince Bruce to help them find Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman.

Using a backdoor connection to NASA within the Batcave, Flash and Batman are able to locate a Kryptonian pod that was reportedly discovered in Siberia. Upon arrival, they instead find Kara Zor-El, a female Kryptonian who claims to be Kal-El's cousin. After rescuing Kara from the facility, Barry asks Bruce to help him get his powers back by recreating the original accident. The first attempt fails and nearly kills Barry, prompting Kara to fly Barry into the storm and get struck by lightning, successfully reviving his powers.

Kara and Bruce join the two Barrys to fight Zod's forces. During the battle with Zod, Kara learns that Zod intercepted an infant Kal-El's escape pod and killed him during a failed attempt to retrieve the Growth Codex needed to remake Earth into Krypton. The two fight, with Zod overpowering and killing Kara, while Batman is also killed. The two Barrys travel back through time to save their companions, but are unable to change their fates. Barry realizes that they will not be able to save them, but 2013-Barry keeps trying, repeatedly travelling back through time, but always failing. As 2013-Barry travels, the multiverse starts to collapse in on itself.

Eventually, the dark Speedster who originally knocked Barry out of the Speed Force returns and is revealed to be an older version of 2013-Barry, who still believes he can save his world from Zod, and prevent the deaths of Batman and Kara. He explains the causal loop paradox that led to his own creation, but grows angry when Barry reveals his own intention to reverse his actions by letting Nora die. Angry, the dark Speedster attempts to kill Barry, but impales 2013-Barry, who sacrifices himself to save Barry and wipes the dark Speedster from the timeline.

In the aftermath, Barry undoes the changes he made to the timeline and comes to terms with his mother's death. However, he makes a minor change in the past, which creates new evidence in the present day that proves Henry's innocence. After returning to the present and helping to exonerate Henry, Barry is contacted by Bruce whose appearance has again been altered as a result of Barry's timeline change.

In a post-credits scene, Barry tells a drunken Arthur Curry about his experiences traveling the multiverse.

Cast

References to the broader DC Extended Universe

Taglines

  • Worlds Collide.

Production

The film was shot in the UK.

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DC Extended Universe
Released Films Man of Steel | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Suicide Squad | Wonder Woman | Justice League | Aquaman | Shazam! | Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Wonder Woman 1984 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | The Suicide Squad | Black Adam
Shazam! Fury of the Gods | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | The Flash | Blue Beetle
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