Henry Cavill’s Superman cameo CUT from The Flash after James Gunn came aboard as new head of DC

Warner Bros. and DC Studios released The Flash this weekend to disappointing results at the box office, with a new report shedding light on the film’s ending and revealing Henry Cavill’s cameo appearance when Superman was finally cut.

The film — which opened this weekend to a mediocre $55.1 million — featured The Flash’s (Ezra Miller) fellow Justice League members Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) and Batman (Ben Affleck).

However, Henry Cavill’s brief cameo was eventually cut short when James Gunn came on board as the new head of DC Studios with Peter Safran.

A report of The Hollywood Reporter reveals that there were actually three different endings for The Flash, each of which was overseen by different heads of DC Studios.

The original ending was supervised by Walter Hamada, with a scene on the courthouse steps after Barry’s father Henry (Ron Livingston) was acquitted for the death of Barry’s mother Nora (Maribel Verdu).

In the original ending, Barry came out of the courthouse where Supergirl (Sasha Calle) and Batman (Michael Keaton) met him on the steps.

This ending was meant to show that Barry did not, in fact, reset the timeline as he intended to.

That ending was eventually changed during the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, when Hamada was ousted and new CEO David Zaslav took on Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy as Warner Bros. Pictures Group Presidents and CEOs.

Zaslav also tasked De Luca and Abdy with overseeing DC Studios, which led to them adjusting the ending.

While the movie still ended on the courthouse steps, Calle and Keaton were joined by Cavill’s Superman and Gadot’s Wonder Woman.

Cavill’s Superman also appeared in a post-credits cameo in Black Adam, and while DC executives weren’t moving forward with a Supergirl movie, they didn’t want to kill her off and were open to her returning in another capacity in the future. .

That ending was filmed in September with Cavill, Gadot, Calle and Keaton, though things would change dramatically just two months later.

Warner Bros. announced in November that James Gunn and Peter Safran would come on board as the new heads of DC Studios, overseeing the franchise.

One of their first official actions as heads of DC Studios was to scrap Henry Cavill’s new Superman movie and cancel Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3.

They also scrapped the second ending, though sources say Gunn and Safran still wanted to keep the premise that “Barry Allen thinks everything’s fine, but then the rug gets pulled at the last second.”

Gunn and Safran both joked while making the movie, “How many Batmen can we get?” They then decided to go after George Clooney, who played Batman in the ill-fated 1997 film Batman and Robin, which ultimately drove the franchise to death until Christopher Nolan’s beloved Dark Knight trilogy years later.

Gunn and Safran both contacted Clooney’s agent, CAA’s Bryan Lourd, showed Clooney a portion of the film, and he agreed to star in it.

Clooney shot the scene with controversial star Ezra Miller in January, marking Miller’s first time on set since meeting DeLuca and Abdy to discuss his recent behavior.

The studio kept the ending a secret for six months and even cut the ending from the film’s first public screening in April at the CinemaCon convention.

The first time the new ending was shown was during press screenings on June 4 and again at the Los Angeles premiere on June 12.

It’s rare to have a movie in post-production dealing with three different regimes with three different agendas. None of them have been cut for ill will, just different views,” said an insider.