The Flash movie was initially supposed to start pre-production next month. The film is an extension of the DCEU starring Ezra Miller as Barry Allen (aka The Flash), reprising the role he originated in Zach Snyder's Justice League. Not much is known about the film, a recent appearance by Miller's Flash on the CW series The Flash seemingly confirmed the DCEU version takes his superhero name from the CW's iteration played by Grant Gustin.

The big-screen version of The Flash has been stuck in development for years. 2019 ended up being a huge year of forward momentum for the film, with an official release date announced and a director, Andy Muschietti (It), finally attached. Before Muschietti, a multitude of directors were attached to the project over the years, including Spider-Man: Homecoming co-writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Outside of a few teases from Miller that the film creates a "speedster multiverse," here is almost nothing known about the plot.With a July 1, 2022 release date finally set, it was expected that the movie would begin filming sometime in 2020. However, the recent outbreak of coronavirus has delayed nearly all the film and TV projects Warner Bros. had in production. Whether or not that effects The Flash remains to be seen, but it's not looking great.

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Screen Rant spoke to Stunt Coordinator, Eunice Huthart, about her work on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Amidst that conversation, the question of what she's working on next arose, and her answer seems to confirm The Flash was going to start pre-production next month. "The project I was due to start is The Flash. I was supposed to start at about the end of April, beginning of May," Huthart said, "I'm not sure what's happening now with that."

Ezra Miller The Flash in Justice League

Huthart, a former Gladiator, seems as unsure about the future of production as the rest of the entertainment industry, but an April/May 2020 start date makes sense for a film that's due in 2022. In theory, starting soon would leave them plenty of time to shoot and then move into post-production and VFX. Still, with coronavirus concerns forcing studios to slam the breaks on productions, it would be a miracle if The Flash was able to stay on that schedule.

Until the spread of the coronavirus is under control, and the US has been able to test as many people as possible, it's impossible to estimate how production delays will impact the industry as a whole. There's already concern that the DCEU's rival, Marvel Studios, could see considerable disruption to its continuity if multiple planned, and coordinated, TV/movie releases are delayed. Warner Bros. doesn't have the same problem since they've taken a much different approach to the interconnectivity of the DCEU movies - each of their films is only loosely connected to the others.

Even without the issue of continuity, Warner Bros. still faces the future scheduling problems all the other studios will be facing in a year. If The Flash manages to keep its current release date, will that still be the prime real estate it once was, or will other studios have added their own delayed films to the schedule? The question is hypothetical, for now, but it's only a matter of time before life returns to normal, and studios must decide when to release these postponed projects.

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