The director of The Flash has his explanation regarding the flops that superhero films have been experiencing for some time, starting with his own. If the DC blockbuster earned $271 million at the worldwide box office, that’s far from enough to make a film with a budget of $200 million profitable.
« The Flash failed, among other reasons, because it did not appeal to all four audience segments, explained Andy Muschietti on the show The Coso Storage on Radio Tu. When you spend 200 million to make a movie, Warner Bros. wants even your grandmother to go see it in the cinema. »
Women angry with Flash?
According to Andy Muschietti, the problem mainly comes from the fact that, unlike Batman or Superman, Flash is not a character that interests many people, and particularly women.
“I’ve found in private conversations that a lot of people don’t care about Flash at all,” he said. Particularly the two female segments. » An observation which comes on top of the numerous delays experienced by the film and the setbacks of its main actor Ezra Miller, which certainly did not help.
