![]() Henry Cavill’s final appearance as Superman was his cameo in Black Adam. Later, a CGI rendition of Cavill’s barechested Superman from Justice League appears during one of the Chronobowl sequences. Early on in the film, Superman appears at a distance on a news telecast that shows why he can’t help out Flash and Batman (he’s trying to stop a volcanic eruption overseas). This one’s a bit of a cheat since we never see Cavill himself. While Barry may not recognize him, Clooney’s Bruce addresses Barry by name. But Barry is stunned to see that this isn’t Ben Affleck’s Bruce but one he’s never met before, George Clooney’s version from 1997’s Batman & Robin (albeit now sporting a silver beard). He gets a call from Bruce Wayne, who is driving up to meet him. The Flash’s final scene before the credits roll finds Barry Allen back in what initially appears to be the correct universe. Instead, Tom named his dog Arthur and he’s married to a different woman. In this film, however, he is in a separate timeline where he never met Atlanna and thus Aquaman was never born. Temuera Morrison reprises his Aquaman role as Maine lighthouse keeper Tom Curry. ![]() This Arthur then falls face down into a puddle on the street where he’s content to sleep it off. Barry explains that this Arthur looks just like the one he knew but, oddly enough, every Batman he’s met is different. It should be noted that this isn’t the same Arthur Curry from Barry’s universe as he now appears to be in an altered reality. ![]() Jason Momoa’s very inebriated Arthur Curry appears in The Flash’s post-credits scene where he and Barry Allen stagger out of a dive bar after a night of heaving drinking that has them assessing whose metabolism is better. (The debacle was chronicled in the 2015 documentary The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?) Cage’s Superman is seen battling a giant alien spider, a nod to a ridiculous demand Kevin Smith received from Superman Lives producer Jon Peters. ![]() Superman Lives was pretty far along in development – including the casting of Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen and the selection of Pittsburgh as a shooting location for Metropolis – when it abruptly fell apart over budgetary and creative issues. Cage was cast as Kal-El in director Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, a 1990s project that Kevin Smith first scripted. The appearance of a long-haired Nic Cage as the Man of Steel is one of the biggest (and, to some, most confounding) surprises in The Flash simply because it’s an homage to a DC movie that was never made. One of the worlds depicted during the climactic Chronobowl sequence is the Earth inhabited by Reeve’s Superman who is then joined by Slater’s Supergirl. However, the two Kryptonians never shared the screen … until now. Play Christopher Reeve’s Superman and Helen Slater’s Supergirlġ984’s Supergirl movie spin-off was produced during Christopher Reeve’s tenure as the big screen’s Man of Steel and it acknowledged that Helen Slater’s Kara Zor-El was Kal-El’s cousin. Adam West’s distinctive stentorian voice can also be heard. Holy crossover! TV’s beloved Caped Crusader appears briefly in the climactic Chronobowl sequence where he’s seen sprinting down the street. Incidentally, George Reeves’ tragic, mysterious death was dramatized in the 2006 film Hollywoodland, which starred the DCEU’s Batman, Ben Affleck, as Reeves. Reeves’ Superman is digitally recreated here in black & white, a nod to the classic TV series (which would, in its later seasons, be broadcast in color). Reeves starred in Superman and the Mole Men and then in the beloved 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman. ![]() He may not have been the first live-action Superman (that was Kirk Alyn) but George Reeves was the Man of Steel for a generation before Christopher Reeve soared onto the big screen in 1978. The climactic Chronobowl battle reveals glimpses at various worlds inhabited by different versions of DC superheroes, starting with … George Reeves’ Superman ![]()
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