'The Flash' Director Reveals Who's Playing Superman In The Film

Well if he's spoiling major cameos that doesn't seem like great confidence

On the day of the The Flash TV series finale on The CW, the director of the DCEU film version that took the entire show’s run to make, Andy Muschietti revealed a major world-breaking cameo the film will have: Superman. But it’s probably not the one you were expecting.

It’s been known since December that Henry Cavill’s Superman whom the DCEU’s Barry Allen, played by Ezra Miller is familiar with had his cameo cut from the film as the new DC Universe from DC Studios began forming. So who could it be? Coming the day after (or the day of) the film’s final trailer, Muschietti revealed that Nicolas Cage will have the Superman cameo.

Infamously, Cage was cast as Superman for the Tim Burton-directed film Superman Lives in the late ‘90s, written by Kevin Smith, which was canceled around 1998. Muschietti said Cage was “absolutely wonderful,”, continuing “Although the role was a cameo, he dove into it… I dreamt all my life to work with him. I hope I can work with him again soon.” He remarked on how big a fan Cage is of Superman, reminding that Cage named his son Kal-El, which is Clark Kent’s Kryptonian birth name. They both appeared in the first meta-reference to the canceled film, when Nic voiced Superman in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, where Kal-El voiced young Bruce Wayne during the hero prevention and restoration montages.

Of course, Cage’s Superman isn’t the only Burton-directed DC superhero in the film, as Michael Keaton reprises his Bruce Wayne and Batman for the first time since 1992’s Batman Returns, playing a supporting role as the Flashpoint world’s resident Batman, replacing Thomas Wayne from the source material. Recently, Cage, who is disinterested in the MCU but voiced Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse spoke about how the Lives Superman “was more of a 1980s Superman with like, the samurai black long hair…a really different, sort of emo Superman.”

But why am I sharing this? I have no plans to support the film’s theatrical run financially, following Miller’s felony burglary charges last August for breaking into a southern Vermont home and stealing alcohol. This was amid a host of other horrific and troubling issues including disorderly conduct, and accusations of assault and grooming minors. Insincere apologies and pushing of Keaton’s Batman over Miller’s Flash in the marketing of The Flash’s own movie ensued, though still very much a major part of the trailers. The Flash also stars Sasha Calle as Supergirl, the returning Michael Shannon as General Zod, Ben Affleck and Jeremy Irons as the DCEU’s Bruce Wayne/Batman and Alfred, Ron Livingston and Maribel Verdu as his parents Henry and Nora Allen, and Kiersey Clemons as Iris West. It will be released in theaters on June 16. The final trailer is below.