The Flash: Could Final Season Lead Into The Flash Movie?

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The various movies and TV shows based on DC Comics have had a whirlwind of a week, with a lot of updates regarding their potential futures (or lack thereof).

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his began on Monday with the confirmation that The Flash will be ending with its upcoming ninth season on The CW, which will air on the network beginning in 2023.

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This final season will most likely serve as the end of a chapter for the network's Arrowverse of shows, but there's also been the question of if and how it will factor into the larger DC multiverse.

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In particular, one question has come up, considering the timing of things — could the final season of The Flash show dovetail directly into the upcoming The Flash movie?

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The two current live-action versions of the Scarlet Speedster have been tied together almost from the jump — the pilot of the television series...

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which stars Grant Gustin's iteration of the character, premiered just a matter of days before it was publicly announced that Ezra Miller would play an alternate version on the big screen.

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For years, fans had entertained the possibility of Gustin and Miller crossing over in some capacity, and they got their wish completely by surprise in early 2020, when Miller made a secret cameo in The CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover.

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In the weeks that followed that episode, it became known that Warner Bros.

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itself had requested for Miller's cameo to be included, and that The Flash movie writer Christina Hodson had "planned" for it when writing the film.

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