In The Flash, Cage appears during a scene when Ezra Miller's Barry Allen opens the multiverse to see the different universes. That's when Barry sees Cage as Superman fighting a giant spider as well as Christopher Reeve's Superman, Helen Slater's Supergirl, Adam West's Batman and George Reeve's Superman.
For all the faults of this year's The Flash movie, it did allow viewers to finally see Nicolas Cage as Superman — the iconic superhero role he was originally supposed to play in a '90s film that never got off the ground.
Michael Keaton's return as Batman in The Flash is not just a nostalgic cameo, but an integral part of the story and fight against Zod. The Flash is the first live-action film to feature three different Bruce Waynes, including a surprise appearance by George Clooney.
The appearance of a long-haired Nic Cage as the Man of Steel is one of the biggest (and, to some, most confounding) surprises in The Flash simply because it's an homage to a DC movie that was never made. Cage was cast as Kal-El in director Tim Burton's Superman Lives, a 1990s project that Kevin Smith first scripted.
If you're going to make your film debut in a high-school sex comedy, you could do a lot worse than Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The eminently quotable 1982 classic gave Nicolas Cage his first film role, alongside rising stars like Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Leonard Snart / Captain Cold appears in media set in the Arrowverse, portrayed by Wentworth Miller. This version is a criminal mastermind and skilled martial artist. Leonard first appears as a recurring character in The Flash (2014).
Henry Cavill's Superman cameo was cut from The Flash and replaced with a new ending because of the complications that otherwise would have been set up for the new DC Universe, as The Flash ending served as a soft reboot of the superhero movie universe.
The two heroes have raced several times since then, in the comics, cartoons and movies. As a general rule, the comics claim that The Flash is the faster hero, with Barry Allen, Wally West and even an octogenarian Jay Garrick having outrun Superman over the years.
Ben Affleck's Batman makes a brief but important appearance in The Flash, showcasing his impressive crime-fighting skills and close friendship with other Justice League members.
Discovery due to financial reasons, Keaton's Batman future got put in doubt, and after the announcement that the DCEU would be rebooted with James Gunn's new DC Universe, The Flash's ending was reshot, and Keaton's Bruce Wayne was then replaced by Clooney.
Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, and George Clooney's versions of Batman get spotlighted in new BTS photos from The Flash movie. 2023 is marking the end of the DCEU, and it has not been an easy year for the decade-old franchise.
While the scene was created using CGI rather than AI, the Ghost Rider star admitted that he still found it baffling. “It was CGI, OK, so that they could de-age me, and I'm fighting a spider,” he said.
Although he's dabbled in the world of superheros, he's never actually been part of the cinematic universe. “I've gotta be nice about Marvel movies, because I named myself after a Stan Lee character named Luke Cage.
The reported reasoning behind this decision was to avoid giving false hope to fans of the Snyder-verse, indicating that these characters may not return in the revamped DC universe. Thus, the two cameos at the end were removed, and the film took a different direction.
Spider-Man star Tom Holland is being suggested as the next live-action version of The Flash in James Gunn's DC Universe. The future of The Flash in the DC Universe is uncertain after the end of Grant Gustin's show and Ezra Miller's movie flop.
The reason why Pattinson was not featured in The Flash, and may not appear in future DCU films, is that he is not currently connected to any official superhero universes... yet. The Batman was intended to be a DCEU project before Ben Affleck confirmed his exit as both the main actor and director by 2019.
This Superman is played by none other than Nic Cage — or, at least, an expressionless digital recreation of a younger Cage from the '90s — as the iteration of Superman he was meant to have played in Tim Burton's Superman Lives.
Despite Thomas Wayne's Batman being crucial to the Flashpoint storyline in the comics, it seems as though it has been completely omitted from The Flash, but this isn't the only casualty of the live-action adaptation.
The Flash (Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the second character known as the Flash, following Jay Garrick. The character first appeared in Showcase #4 (October 1956), created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino.
While speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the director revealed the reason why he didn't want to include Morgan's version of Thomas Wayne in the movie: “We didn't want to give the audience a literal adaptation of the comic book.
Although early in his career Cage appeared in some of his uncle's films, he changed his name to Nicolas Cage to avoid the appearance of nepotism as Coppola's nephew. His choice of name was inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage and composer John Cage.
“I went back to my own interests in indie drama. Those have always been my roots, and I kept working,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “If you look at everything I've grossed at the worldwide box office after a 43-year career, I'm approaching something like $6 billion.
