When it comes to some of the most disastrous and widely panned superhero movies, Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern stands tall as one of the worst rated DC movies ever made. This is not just an opinion shared by a few people, and Reynolds himself acknowledged the failure of the movie by including it as part of a joke in Deadpool 2, when the Marvel character was seen “righting the wrong” of that movie by killing Ryan Reynolds before he could take on the role of Hal Jordan. However, when it comes to box office results, it looks like this year’s The Flash is going to end its run with a lower domestic box office total than even Reynolds’ failed movie.
The Flash was supposed to be the big DC movie of the summer, a final big adventure to start paving the way to the new DCU coming from James Gunn and Peter Safran starting with Superman: Legacy in 2025. However, it has instead been a box office flop thanks to its massive budget and low audience interest, which was made all the more surprising following many early reviews citing the film as one of the greatest superhero movies of all time.
So far the movie has grossed just $106 million domestically, putting it behind Green Lantern by around $10 million as it dips from theater listings. Although this is nowhere near as bad as Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ terrible $57 million, it is also well below the $168 million of Black Adam, which itself was seen as a huge disappointment. To put it all in some kind of context, the domestic total for all of DC’s recent live-action movies combined, and indeed their worldwide gross, is less than that of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. James Gunn’s final Marvel Studios movie had a budget of $250 million, while the reported total budget of DC’s three movies was in the region of $600 million, showing just how big of a catastrophe Warner Bros. Discovery have had with the DCEU’s runoff.
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Although Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom are both still to be released this year, it is unlikely that either movie is going to set the box office alight based on the past year of DC movies. What everyone wants to know now is whether James Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Legacy can get the new DCU regime off to a good start.
So far there have been a number of casting announcements made about Gunn’s Superman movie, which is turning out to be a very stacked affair, with many other DC heroes now known to make an appearance in the film in some way. The reactions to the news has varied from those who don’t really care because they are “done” with DC, to those who cannot wait to see Gunn continue his DC journey with a whole new era of the franchise.
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