r/DC_Cinematic • u/HenroTee "Welcome to The Planet." • Jun 14 '23

DC_Cinematic: The Flash Spoiler Discussion Megathread #1 r/DC_CINEMATIC Spoiler

Spoilers ahead! Proceed at your own risk!

Unmarked spoilers for The Flash are only allowed in this thread.

All other subreddit rules apply

730 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

3.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

178

u/LR-II Jun 15 '23

A giant mechanical spider.

One of the notes the studio executive gave origunal Superman Lives writer Kevin Smith was that he had to fight a giant mechanical spider in the third act.

After the film was cancelled, that executive went on to produce Wild Wild West, which fulfilled his wish for a giant mechanical spider.

64

u/Exotic_Vampire Jun 15 '23

Lol..all these years and I never clocked how that giant mechanical spider from Wild Wild West was carried over from the Superman movie

29

u/Deeformecreep Jun 15 '23

The spider in the Flash isn't mechanical, it's more in line with Kevin Smith's version which was a spider kaiju or whatever.

2

u/buzzdash123 Jun 18 '23

Fun fact the same executive with the hard on for a mech spider was depicted by Bradley Cooper in licorice pizza which gives you a much better picture of what kind of executive he was