‘It didn’t work at this level’: This latest blockbuster was a flop and its director knows why!

A true industrial disaster, The Flash is one of the biggest superhero flops at the box office in recent years. With an XXL budget of $200 million, the DC feature film grossed just $108 million in the U.S. and $271 million worldwide, in other words, disastrous numbers for a production of this scale that’s hitting the $400 million mark. to cover his expenses.

But why then? FlashActor Ezra Miller wears it, has it “dropped” in this size? In Interview given to the program La Baulera del Coso on the Spanish radio TUIts director, Andy Muschietti, thinks he’s found the answer.

For an Argentinian filmmaker, if Flash was a monumental failure, that is because it did not reach the four categories of society (“squares”) established by the Hollywood industry, namely men over 25, men under 25, women over 25, and women. up to 25 years.

“If Flash It didn’t work, by the way, because it wasn’t a movie that all four “squares” would like. It didn’t work at this level.”admits Andy Muschietti. “When you spend $200 million on a movie, the studio wants even your grandmother to go see it in the theater.”

Female audience not receptive to ‘The Flash’

Andy Muschietti Realized the obvious: people cared less about the superhero Flash, much less in any case than about DC’s iconic figures Batman and Superman. “In personal conversations, I found that many people were not interested in this character, especially the female audience.It marks the one to whom we owe two parts of it.

It was already not helped by the many production delays and personal problems faced by its lead actor Ezra Miller, Flash Therefore, to put it another way, he did not meet the sections of the audience that he should have reached. Of course, there is a lot to avoid a loud flop.

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