DC Extended Universe: 10 Post-Justice League Predictions

More heroes, new villains and infinite Earths.

Batman The Killing Joke
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The DC Extended Universe is about to reach a major milestone. When Zack Snyder's Justice League lands later this year, it will make the first time the iconic superhero team has joined forces on the big screen. Excited yet?

Okay, so Warner Bros has fast-tracked the assembly process in a bid to wrestle the limelight from Marvel's Avengers, but seeing Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the gang unite will hopefully be thrilling nonetheless.

The ensemble movie could well be a game-changer for the DCEU, a seismic event that twists its very fabric and alters its status quo, something DC has done several times in its comic books in recent years.

Anyone familiar with DC lore will have spotted signs that this is the case. That red sky overhead in the Justice League trailers is the harbinger for Multiverse madness.

Warner has already announced a slate of films that will follow Justice League to cinema, and between the DCEU's comic book source material, the footage released seen so far and a handful of leaks, fans already have an idea about what's to come....

10. Flashpoint Will Be Scaled Back

Batman The Killing Joke
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The Flash's 2020 solo outing will be based on the Flashpoint event, a major comic storyline set in an alternate reality created by Barry Allen's speedy time-hopping.

The Flashpoint universe is a bonkers place, where the Amazons are at war with the Atlanteas, most of Europe is flooded and Deathstroke captains a pirate ship.

Oh, and Bruce Wayne was the one gunned down in that Gotham City alley, leaving it to his father Thomas to take up the cape and cowl... and his mother Martha to become a version of the Joker, for some reason.

Flashpoint in its purest form is a sprawling, mind-bending epic that is almost as unadaptable as Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, so bringing it to cinema is going to require some serious and careful streamlining.

It's already a Flash-centric story, but as this is a solo outing, the movie will likely have an even tighter focus on Barry Allen. Much of the Atlantean-Amazon conflict may have to be chopped, but let's hope Captain Deathstroke stays.

The Thomas Wayne incarnation of Batman is, however, essential to the story and it would be incredible to see The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan - who played Wayne senior in Batman v Superman - take on this role.

That said, a straight Flashpoint adaptation is too ambitious and wouldn't work as a Flash solo film; so expect a loose take with a stricter focus on the speedster.

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