Worlds collide in The Flash when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. While Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman was also expected to appear, Affleck revealed to IndieWire last month that the scene was cut from the final film. Scheduling conflicts meant Billy Crudup couldn't return as Barry's father, Henry Allen, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife, so Ron Livingston stepped into the role. In addition to Miller, Affleck, and Keaton, the cast of The Flash includes Kiersey Clemons as journalist (and Barry's love interest) Iris West Michael Shannon as General Zod, reprising his role from 2013's Man of Steel Antje Traue reprising the role of Zod's second-in-command, Faora-Ul Sasha Calle as Supergirl and Maribel Verdu as Barry's mother, Nora Allen. And he wanted to include not just Michael Keaton's Batman but Ben Affleck's, too, since he thought Barry's relationship with the latter would make Keaton's inclusion even more powerful. Muschietti kept several of the Flashpoint story elements while acknowledging that this would be a different version.

Thomas Wayne becomes Batman, Martha Wayne becomes the Joker, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are bitter enemies, and Superman is a prisoner.

In that alternate world, a young Bruce Wayne is killed rather than his parents. Further Reading Michael Keaton’s Batman steals every scene in official trailer for The FlashĮarlier scripts focused on adapting the Flashpoint crossover storyline from the comic books, in which the Scarlet Speedster goes back in time to keep his mother from being murdered, thereby altering the entire timeline.

Annihilation by Dan Abnett