Kevin Smith Shares His Reaction to Huge ‘Flash’ Cameo

The following submit incorporates SPOILERS for the ending of The Flash, together with a giant cameo from a sure man of metal.

For those that don’t know, Kevin Smith is a little bit of a comic book guide nerd. So a lot in order that he was tapped to write the screenplay for a Superman film within the mid ’90s. The solely difficulty was a producer named Jon Peters. Peters had some… attention-grabbing concepts about how a Superman film ought to pan out.

He initially wished Sean Penn to play the Man of Steel. Okay, that’s cheap sufficient. But he additionally wished the film to finish with this Superman preventing a large spider. Tim Burton was introduced onboard to direct the mission, which turned often called Superman Lives. and Smith was supposed to get his want. Burton solid Nicolas Cage as Superman. The solely downside was that the finances was round $200 million at this level. The studio ultimately determined to scrap the entire mission. Superman Lives by no means noticed the sunshine of day.

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That is till, the tip of 2023’s The Flash. That complete big spider climax? It occurs on the finish of the film when Ezra Miller’s Flash witnesses the collapse of the multiverse. Complete with Nicolas Cage as Superman. Kevin Smith just lately sat down with Rolling Stone to nerd out about how cool it was — and to reveal that whereas he fought with Peters concerning the big spider thought, he now realized it might need truly made for a cool ending to the film.

As Smith put it:

I bought to go to the premiere the opposite day, after which I watched it once more final night time right here on the movie show I personal, SModcastle Cinemas. I’m watching it once more Friday and Saturday on the movie show with audiences. It’s mind-melting. One of the primary issues I believed once I noticed it on the premiere is, ‘Goddammit, it would have worked.’ As a lot as I used to make enjoyable of Jon Peters, that regarded badass. He wasn’t unsuitable. Like, it completely might have panned out.

The Flash is enjoying now in theaters everwhere.