"That Leak Hurt": The Flash"s Superman Cameo Was Never Meant To Be Spoiled

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WARNING: This article includes SPOILERS from The Flash movie.The Flash movie director is finally opening up on why one of the film's major surprise cameos got surprised so early. One of the most highly anticipated films of 2023 was The Flash, with Ezra Miller running back to the big screen as the Scarlet Speedster. A huge element of the DCEU installment was the major multiverse cameos that were being lined up for The Flash film. However, before the movie had even been released, The Flash's director revealed to the press that Nicolas Cage was set to make a cameo as Superman, and many were surprised that he would spoil that to the world.
It turns out that the original interview reportedly made an error in releasing Muschietti's quote as early as they did about Cage's Superman cameo. In a new interview with The Discourse Podcast featuring both the director and his sister Barbara Muschietti, who served as a producer on The Flash, they revealed that the Cage cameo was never meant to be leaked or purposely revealed before the film's release. For the filmmaker, he was hoping to have Cage's cameo be something that the entire world got to learn at the same time while his sister shared that she "will name names," as they stated the following:

Andy: No, well, Mike, that was a leak, unfortunately. Yeah, I would’ve never. I would’ve never. It was a leak unfortunately, but didn’t seem to affect much. Of course, I would’ve loved that to be a surprise, but the truth is that the movie has a lot of surprises apart from the Nic Cage thing. And there’s more coming on the 16th.