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It allowed for lots of possibilities, including bringing Keaton back in a movie that also had Ben Affleck’s “Zack Snyder Batman.” In Barry Allen’s quest to save his mother, he accidentally gets tossed into another timeline and meets a younger, different version of himself who gets swept up in the journey.

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“Birds of Prey” screenwriter Christina Hobson had taken a crack at the story and come out with something that was both fun and emotional and introduced the multiverse to the DC cannon. “Back to the Future,” which is referenced quite a bit in “The Flash,” was one of their favorite movies, too. In the story, Andy Muschietti found a compelling emotional core: The relationship between Barry Allen and his mother, who was killed when he was a child and whom he wants to go back in time to save. The Muschiettis were finishing “It Chapter Two” when the studio approached them about “The Flash.” They didn’t concern themselves with the messy, marathon development history - they just wanted to figure out if this was worth several years of their life. Ezra Miller even worked on their own treatment of a script. Several writers and directors cycled in and out of developing “The Flash,” including Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Seth Grahame-Smith, Rick Famuyiwa, Robert Zemeckis and John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and release dates were pushed back. plotted out a shared universe of DC Comics films, including a standalone Flash starring Miller as Barry Allen, who would first appear in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Suicide Squad” and “Justice League.”īut even that wasn’t so straightforward, with disagreements over tone and scheduling conflicts making things complicated. Then in 2014, things started taking shape as Warner Bros. Goyer directing another had George Miller setting the stage for spinoffs and standalones with Adam Brody. One scenario had Ryan Reynolds starring and David S. Movie versions of the lightning quick comic book character have been in various stages of development since the late 1980s. It’s an apt if intentionally understated description of getting “The Flash” into theaters on June 16.

“Everything came with a little adventure,” Barbara Muschietti said with a laugh in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

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