The Flash: Some of the Big Cameos Are Making Fans Very Angry

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This post contains spoilers for The Flash.

The controversy over The Flash continues. Just ahead of its dismal release weekend, leaked footage (that was quickly taken down with a copyright complaint) revealed more of its multiverse of cameos that includes digital recreations of deceased actors George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, and Adam West during its climax. Social media has taken notice.

Using the likenesses of Reeves and Reeve for an uncanny valley of nostalgic fan service is seen as particularly disrespectful by many fans. George Reeves — who played the first-ever TV Man of Steel on the 1950s series The Adventures of Superman — committed suicide in 1959 at the age of 45 allegedly because of the career struggles he endured that have been attributed to taking the role.

Others speculated that Christopher Reeve, who died at 52 in 2004, would have loathed the lingering shot of his Superman, whom he played in four films in the ‘70s and ‘80s beginning with 1978’s Superman: The Movie. Multiple interviews have resurfaced of Reeve condemning Hollywood’s “very bad disease called sequelitis” and his distaste for recurring roles for the paycheck, prioritizing the “integrity of your work.”

Fans have also offered a reasonable, more respectful suggestion to Reeve: Brandon Routh, who donned the red cape in 2006’s Superman Returns, intended as an homage/sequel to the 1978 film.

Among the many returning Batmen who appear in the movie — Michael Keaton, Nic Cage, and George Clooney — The Flash also featured Adam West, who played the caped crusader in the ABC series Batman that ran from 1966 to 1968 and the 1966 film called Batman. West died in 2017 at 88 years old.

A large part of the backlash comes from the film essentially using deepfakes to not just bring back dead actors to the screen, but for people who could have easily shown up on set, including Teddy Sears, who starred in The CW’s The Flash.

“People kept telling me that I was in the new Flash movie…,” Sears told TV Line. “I mean, I’m sleep-deprived with a newborn at home, so my memory is a little foggy. But I’m pretty sure I would have remembered shooting a major DC Studios film.”

This is in addition to the fact that that these digital cameos, which was done by pulling archival footage and utilizing AI tech, just look bad.

In an interview with GamesRadar, director Andy Muschietti said there was “total freedom” when it came to these cameos. "As long as they were DC characters, everything was allowed. And I made a list of superheroes that I love, that I would love to see, and it was a long list. And then, for time matters, for pacing, we had to shortlist that a little bit. The movie is the result of that shortlist, but I'm pretty thrilled by the superheroes that we gather."

For some reason, Kevin Smith defended the decision to include these cameos in an interview with Rolling Stone.

“It didn’t bother me all,” Smith said. “I thought it was just a really nice homage to the past. It didn’t feel like an insult. [...] Some people are like, ‘Yeah, but they’re not alive to say yes or no.’ And you know, I don’t know any actor who would be like, ‘Don’t use my image when I’m dead.’ Like, you don’t go into this business to try to be shy, right? You want to be seen. And, look, I’ll give the world permission right now. When I’m fucking dead, you can literally do anything to my image or to Silent Bob in a movie. Anything you want.”

Leanna Butkovic is a freelance writer at IGN.



source https://www.ign.com/articles/cgi-cameos-the-flash-reactions
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