The Flash (2023) on Netflix
PG-1320232h 24mActionAdventureFantasy
A forensic investigator with superhuman speed, Barry Allen races back through time to prevent his mother's murder. He lands in an altered 2013 where she is alive and General Zod is coming.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.6/10252,250 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
Barry Allen is a police forensic investigator in Central City with superhuman speed. He fights alongside Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince to stop a robbery in Gotham City. He visits his childhood home, remembering his mother Nora and father Henry, who is wrongfully imprisoned for Nora's murder. Overcome, Barry makes an accidental trip through the Speed Force to earlier that day. Bruce warns him that time travel has unintended consequences. Barry travels to the day Nora died and puts groceries in her cart so Henry will not leave the house. Returning to the present, an unknown speedster attacks him. He emerges in a 2013 where Nora is still alive. He meets his parents and a younger version of himself, on the day he is struck by lightning and gains his powers. General Zod is preparing to invade Earth.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Flash (2023)
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- Ezra Miller wrote a version of The Flash script with comic book writer Grant Morrison in 2019, but Warner Bros. rejected it because the studio wanted the film to explore the DC multiverse instead.
- Sasha Calle was cast as Supergirl from a group of more than 425 actresses, with all auditions and chemistry tests with Ezra Miller conducted over Zoom.
- Nicolas Cage finally played Superman in The Flash, a role he was cast in for Tim Burton's unproduced 1997 film Superman Lives, and his scene shows him fighting a giant spider that producer Jon Peters had wanted in Burton's film.
- A camera operator on a motorcycle shooting behind the Batcycle collided with it on Renfield Street in Glasgow during filming; the operator was injured but not seriously hurt.
- The Batmobile from Michael Keaton's Batman films was transported to the Leavesden set from Los Angeles using an airport cargo truck because of a global shortage of shipping containers.
- Henry Cavill was paid $250,000 for a cameo as Superman that was cut from the film's ending after DC Studios chose not to make a Man of Steel sequel; his likeness still appears briefly through CGI.
- George Clooney filmed his cameo as an alternate Batman with Ezra Miller in half a day in January 2023, and between takes he gave Miller advice on handling publicity and his behavior.
- The Flash was one of the first feature films made available on a blockchain when Warner Bros. released it for digital download on the Eluvio NFT blockchain on July 18, 2023.
