Ever since Zack Snyder departed Justice League, delivered his four-hour edition of Joss Whedon’s abomination, and then sailed off into the sunset to sign an exclusive deal with Netflix, you’d have thought a gaping hole that couldn’t possibly be filled by anyone or anything was left in the DCU.
That’s exactly the case, or at least it is depending entirely on who you ask. Virtually everything to have come down the pipeline has been lambasted by the die-hard SnyderVerse subset for disgracing the filmmaker’s original vision for the franchise, and a lot of them simply refuse to get on board with James Gunn and Peter Safran steering the ship as a result.
After being subjected to some over-hype, the backlash towards The Flash has started before the movie has even been released, but a round has at least been removed from the chamber after director Andy Muschietti confirmed to Total Film that he sought out, tracked down, and gained Snyder’s approval ahead of the incoming multiversal epic.
“I talked to Zack. But it wasn’t technical or narrative or anything. I just wanted to reach out and say, ‘Hey.’ Because we haven’t met before, and I just wanted to tell him that we would be respectful to the stuff that he did before. Man of Steel obviously is foundational to this movie because the big threat of Zod coming to Earth is a big twist in this story, and it’s something that most DC fans know very well. And that’s one of the great things that can form the narrative of this movie.”
You can’t have The Flash without Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or either version of Justice League, so it was the respectful thing for Muschietti to do. Even at that, you can guarantee the big red reset button being hit within is going to continue irritating the SnyderVerse fanatics regardless.