Yahoo Movies How The Flash's major ending cameo came about
The Flash spoilers follow.
Over 25 years since appearing as Bruce Wayne, Batman & Robin star George Clooney returned as Batman for a surprise cameo at the end of DC's The Flash.
In the final scenes of the timeline hopping movie, Ezra Miller's Barry Allen aka The Flash returns to his own timeline where he makes a phone call to Bruce Wayne after a courthouse hearing.
When Wayne turns up at the courthouse in his car, the crowds part to reveal George Clooney's Wayne instead of the Ben Affleck version Barry was expecting.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cameo wasn't planned years ahead, but was instead made in a matter of a few months before the film's release.
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Apparently three endings were shot due to a host of different DC bosses overseeing the project.
First up, the film was under the regime of Toby Emmerich and DC Films boss Walter Hamada who shot an ending featuring Sasha Calle's Supergirl and Michael Keaton's Batman.
However, in 2022, following the Discovery acquisition of Warner Bros., Emmerich and Hamada were let go, while Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy took over. They had their own plans and a new ending was supposedly conceived and shot where Calle's Supergirl and Keaton's Batman were joined by Henry Cavill's Superman, alongside Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot.
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But, when James Gunn and producer Peter Safran took over at DC Studios, they had ideas of their own after parting ways with Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins and scrapping Cavill's Superman film.
So, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn and Safran reached out to Clooney's agent with a cut of the finished film and Clooney, who supposedly liked the movie, agreed to be a part of it.
A quick shoot was put together in January, bringing Clooney back to the role after 26 years away and Warner kept the new ending under lock and key, with no screen testing. The new ending was only revealed during screenings for press earlier this month, and then at the movie's premiere on June 12.
The Flash is released in UK cinemas on June 14 and in US cinemas on June 16.
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