This is pretty damn intriguing. The Flash of it all is certainly of interest, but if they’re doing a Flashpoint/multiverse-spanning thing, it’s pretty self-explanatory. What’s really curious to me is the Batgirl bit.
Does this mean that film is set in the Burton-Batman universe? If so... how does that work? Pat Hingle’s been dead for a decade and he was 84 when he passed. Would this Batgirl be his granddaughter, maybe?
My mind is really running wild.
My guess : it will be a mix between Flashpoint and crisis on infinite earths (the comics). Barry travels back in time to save his mother and either inadvertently creates another universe protected by Michael Keaton’s Batman, now 30 years older, the burtonverse as we know from Batman 89 and Batman returns or he travels on his world.
I assume this will be a buddy movie with Barry growing up as a person and Bruce retired (wearing the suit during the finale fight). There's a parallel between them, losing their loved one by the hand of a maniac (Zoom and Joker)
At the end, Barry accepts the idea that he can't save his mother without consequence, stops Zoom and prevent the burtonverse, erasing Batman 89 and Batman returns at the same time.
Both are cool ideas, let's see what kicked this all off.
Marvel - time travel and coming to an end of their run and introducing a new phase - DC are like, ok we have WW and AM making a billion, we have a not so bad Superman, we have Shazam! and the Rock coming in, we have a new Batman that looks good, we also have Joker.. we have a rebooted SS and we also have to recast Batman for our DCEU - let's just embrace the multiverse!
They gave it respect and a trial on the TV and people lapped it up. The DCEU flash was even mentioned.
It will look cool, play to nostalgia and solves a few loop holes - maybe. By having flash point, It's their own thanos 'click'.
This is how I see it play out.
DCEU is still their main player and they want to run with that.
A flashpoint movie doesn't change WW or WW1984, even AM and Shazam! are unaffected.
So Flashpoint comes out - we see Barry and Ray work out the possibilities of time travel and he learns about the multiverse - this scene has to happen.
It then lets us know that obviously, the multiverse is real, as we have seen it before.
Then, Barry decides to go back in time, but way way back in time, like a good 70 years or so to alter the future path of the person responsible - and this indeed alters the past but also sets off a chain events and Thomas Wayne have a son, earlier than anticipated - Bruce Wayne is 25 years early - so the DCEU has been retconned to prelude with B89.
Bruce does his thing, defeats the joker - after marries Selina. Then in 2013 he watches on as MOS happens, but... BvS, JL, JLSC play out very differently or don't even happen.
I mean, Kal El was always destined to arrive on earth, time travel wouldn't have altered that. Same for WW1 and WW1984.
So the end of the movie ends with Keaton Batman being the DCEU batman and established pals with Clark and Diana and Arthur etc
So we move forward with more WW movies, AM and Shazam! more superman and GL and perhaps Flash and cyborg and have Keaton their as a mentor of a retconned continuity.
I like it - let's get nuts.
