Better than Ezra?
We’ve got Grant Gustin playing Barry Allen on The CW’s most popular show, “The Flash.” And we’ve got Ezra Miller playing Barry Allen in next year’s “Batman V. Superman,” a standalone 2018 “Flash” movie and I’d guess the 2017 and 2019 “Justice League” movies as well.
Does Miller choose to ignore TV’s slightly older CW Barry Allen as he goes about creating his big-screen Flash?
“I’m not avoiding it at all,” Miller tells MTV. “I think it’s awesome. And come on — we’re The Flash. It’s parallel universes. Grant Gustin is The Flash, and I’m The Flash, don’t you see? It’s the event horizon, we crossed it, baby. Grant and I are chillin’. We’re going to have a race. It’s gonna be dope. Like Jay Garrick and Barry Allen back in the day.”
My sense is Miller had at the time of interview might not yet have heard that the CW’s “Flash” had hired Teddy Sears to play Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick in season two. But you can judge for yourself:
When I think about all the bullshit the previous overlords of the DC Comics movies handed down to The WB, I have to point and laugh.
“No, man, you can’t use Bruce Wayne on ‘Smallville’ or ‘Birds of Prey,’ man! We’re making Batman movies, dude!! If they see him on the big screen and the small screen at the same time, people will get confused! They’ll think, ‘Why I should I pay to see Batman on the big screen when I can watch him for free on TV?’”
Never mind that Batman was already all over TV, on repeats of the 1960s Adam West series, repeats of the 1940s serials, repeats of the half-dozen or so Batman animated series, repeats of “Super Friends,” repeats of “Justice League” and “Justice League Unlimited,” repeats of the Tim Burton movies, the Joel Schumacher movies, the Nolan Bros. movies, and the endless DC straight-to-Blu-ray animated movies.
We just got two movies – a Bryan Singer X-Men movie and a Joss Whedon Avengers movie – with different Quicksilvers. Two different actors. Both had superspeed. One of them had Russian accent. No audience member’s head exploded.
There are at least five movies coming out – “Batman V. Superman,” “Suicide Squad,” two “Justice Leagues,” and a standalone Batman movie – in which Ben Affleck plays Bruce Wayne. Jeremy Irons plays Alfred Pennyworth in at least one of them. The first of these will be in cinemas next March as new episodes of Fox’s “Gotham” unfurl.
