10 WILD Rumours About Upcoming Movies
7. Superman Dies In The New Timeline, Is Replaced By Supergirl - The Flash
The Flash is undeniably one of the more intriguing and potential-rich upcoming superhero movies - Ezra Miller's career-annihilating behaviour aside - giving Warner Bros. the opportunity to reshape the troubled DC Extended Universe through Barry Allen's (Ezra Miller) time travel shenanigans.
While it's no secret that Supergirl (Sasha Calle) will make her DCEU debut in the movie, rumours indicate that she will appear as a substitute for Superman, who in the new timeline Barry visits is killed as a baby during General Zod's (Michael Shannon) destruction of Krypton.
As the new timeline established by this movie apparently becomes the dominant one, it seems that Henry Cavill's version of Superman will be nudged into a peripheral timeline, yet with the opportunity for him to return if all parties can come to terms.
As messy as multiversal stories have a tendency to be, this seems like a safe means to organically introduce Supergirl to the DCEU without simply overwriting Cavill's Superman entirely.