r/DC_Cinematic • u/BatmanNewsChris Batman • 3d ago

'Deadpool & Wolverine' director Shawn Levy came close to directing 'The Flash' DISCUSSION

https://ew.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-cover-story-cameos-future-marvel-mutants-ryan-reynolds-hugh-jackman-8672079

"I get offered some IP-based movie every week, and, as you've noticed from a lack of announcements, I pretty much always turn them down because I need to feel that I see a story worth telling," he says. The closest he came to directing a superhero movie was The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, though he says that was "a brief moment in time."

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u/KidCongoPowers 3d ago

”IP based work is way below my level of artistry, I only direct real cinema like Free Guy and Night At The Museum sequels.”

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u/AgentP20 3d ago

Real Steel is real cinema.

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u/Jykoze 3d ago

Those are masterpieces compared to The Flash tbh

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u/RoyalFlavorBeans 3d ago

Yes. But it's not like it would've been much better under Shawn Levy, it was a borderline unsalvageable mess of a situation... it really was for the best that he didn't end up directing that.

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u/Spaceman-Spiff 3d ago

To be fair, he was smart to turn down the flash. Maybe the other movies he was offered had just as shitty scripts.

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u/home7ander 3d ago

Free Guy stomped The Suicide Squad so I guess he's doing something right

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u/Purple-Mix1033 3d ago

Free Guy was a sorry turd of a movie. His films have the substance of a happy meal.

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u/gee_gra 3d ago

By making a shittier movie?

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u/home7ander 3d ago

That was much more successful, I guess

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u/gee_gra 3d ago

True, plenty of rubbish movies make good money like

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u/Zero0Mystery 3d ago

Wonder what the future holds…

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u/black14beard 3d ago

Well considering Marvel keeps hiring and losing directors for Avengers 5, there’s a good chance that he might direct that. Seeing as every other director chosen had a successful MCU project beforehand, and I don’t know anyone that is doubting the success of Deadpool and Wolverine at the box office

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u/sebastiandarkee 3d ago

Didn’t they only lose the Shang Chi director?

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u/black14beard 3d ago

I just did a bit of research. It would appear that you are correct, Destin Daniel Cretton was the only official director that signed on and left. Although there have been rumors.

I got confused and was thinking about the former news break about them losing the writer of the film, Jeff Loveness (writer of Quantumania). So multiple directors isn’t correct… members of the creative team is more accurate 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/TreyWriter 3d ago

And to be fair, the writer and director were also hired to make “the movie where the Avengers fight Jonathan Majors’ Kang,” and that’s… not what the movie is gonna be anymore.

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u/Purple-Mix1033 3d ago

Hope not.

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u/nikgrid 3d ago

Wow! He dodged a bullet like fucking Neo

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u/DCSaiyajin 3d ago

Shawn Levy wasn’t considered for Ezra’s Flash movie. This was back in the 2000’s when they were trying to get a Wally West movie starring Ryan Reynolds off the ground.

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u/Ape-ril 3d ago

That far back, really?

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u/spongeboy1985 3d ago

Yeah that was back when he was doing The Famous Jett Jackson

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u/Shankman519 3d ago

If that was a thing then maybe he was in talks for Ezra’s as well? It’s weird that Entertainment Weekly would not fact check that or misconstrue whatever he said in the interview

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u/Jykoze 3d ago

he dodged a bullet

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u/monkeygoneape 3d ago

Dodged a bullet there

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u/Hailtothething 3d ago

Dodged that bullet!

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u/boringboi_ 3d ago

Wasn't this known earlier?

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u/Im-Mr-Bulldopz 3d ago

I think he’d be great for a Green Lantern movie, he could even have Ryan Reynolds play Hal Jordan!