Batman in the Flash: Christian Bale really contacted?

Warning – The article below contains “The Flash” spoilers as it revisits one of the surprises at the end of the DC movie. Please continue if you haven’t seen it yet.

Sometimes it takes very little for a truncated and out-of-context speculative remark to become news, and Kevin Smith has paid the price in recent days.

In an excerpt from his broadcast Fatman beyond The Flash-centric actor and director claims Warner begged Christian Bale to continue as Batman in the film’s final scene before George Clooney had to return after Christopher Nolan’s Bruce Wayne turned it down. What happened.

Kevin Smith said those words well, but the montage circulating on the Internet, made with very relative honesty, omits the passages where he specifies that this is a matter of speculation (or even a joke) on his part, and by no means. the truth What the main stakeholder wanted to remember.

(“What’s missing from this excerpt from FatMan Beyond are the moments where I say, ‘I think there’s a world in which…’ and ‘I feel like…’ That was just speculation, not information I had .”)

And the controversial assumption was: “I think there’s a world where that cameo wouldn’t have been made like… two weeks ago. I feel like it could have been anybody and that they’d been asking Christian Bale for months and months, hoping he’d give in.”

“But he’d refuse, and they’d change their tune by casting another Batman and go for George Clooney.” For a cameo shot in January (and which is the film’s third canned ending), as Kevin Smith reveals in his reframing tweet. Which, inevitably, reminds us of the legions of fake news out there.

But this example goes further than so-called exclusive information about scoopers and other insiders who are always quick to reveal unverified stuff. In this case, these are truncated and distorted notes, which are an attempt to transfer the speculation developed in a humorous mode to the truth about the DC movie, which can be seen in our cinemas from June 14.