Next month The Flash hits cinemas, taking Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen on a time travelling, multiverse-traversing DC journey.

Both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are reprising their incarnations of Batman and there are even unconfirmed rumours of George Clooney making a cameo.

Henry Cavill could have been dropped from the franchise’s future by new DC Studios boss James Gunn, regardless of his cameo on the finish of Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, however a variant of his Superman alongside Sasha Calle’s Supergirl have been closely rumoured.

And now director Andy Muschietti has spilt the beans forward of the movie’s launch in June.

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Rumour has it that Nicolas Cage’s Superman fights a large mechanical spider in The Flash.

And Muschietti confirmed this in an interview with Esquire Middle East saying: “Nic was absolutely wonderful. Although the role was a cameo, he dove into it… I dreamt all my life to work with him. I hope I can work with him again soon. He is a massive Superman fan. A comic book fanatic.”

This is probably the most unbelievable Easter egg. As Comic Book film followers are effectively conscious, the star was forged in Kevin Smith’s Superman Lives again within the Nineties.

Batman and Batman Returns director Tim Burton was signed on to direct for a pay-or-play contract of $5 million. Meanwhile, Cage had the identical to play Superman however for a whopping $20 million.

Cage believed he might “reconceive the character” and Burton thought his casting could be “the first time you would believe that nobody could recognise Clark Kent as Superman, he could physically change his persona.”

The star had a dressing up becoming within the Superman go well with whereas sporting lengthy hair, however by April 1998 Warner Bros had put the film on maintain regardless that they’d already spent $30 million on it. Two years later Cage dropped out of the venture however would find yourself voicing Superman within the animated film Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. And now he’s lastly embodied his take within the upcoming DC blockbuster.

The Flash hits cinemas on June 16, 2023.