hi guys hello hi uh hello andy and barbara we are super fans from india we love the flash movie and the new flash suits look amazing uh can you share any insights into the creative process behind the new suit design it broke all the time it broke okay well that was a problem when you you know i wanted to obviously like bring a new a new feel to the to this character And the suit was important. And given that five years have passed since we last saw Barry, I instantly sort of assumed that he would have gotten a new suit with the help of his friend Bruce. So it's Bruce Wayne technology. Probably in the... There was a scene that we had to cut where, you know, there's an explanation.
of how Bruce is the one that provided or Wayne Technologies is the one who is the company that provided the suit but it sort of interfered with the pace of the movie so we so we cut it but yeah it's Wayne Technology and it fits perfectly except for that scene where where young Barry gets it and he's like he's it hurts I don't know how to say it but it was it was it was very exciting to explore the suit um but every time Ezra lifted his leg he would rip it so it was very complicated because you know in my in my dreams it was made of different layers so it had an outside layer that was transparent and an inside layer that had like circuit circuits and both layers had different textures so we tried to our costume designer Alexandra Byrne um went through a very torturous process to bring it to life because she's incredible and she wanted to bring it to life and she did actually, but it was because of the layer thing, it was very complicated to make. It looks amazing. That's all that matters now. It looks amazing.
Yeah. It's so correct. One more thing is the conduct light, which is the other visual element that I really wanted to bring.
Andy, my next question is to you. As a Flash fan, I always wanted to see the speed force in live action. So what was your inspiration behind the speed force that you showed us in the movie?
Well, I was fascinated by, I am fascinated by time travel. You know, of course, speed force is the thing with Barry and every other Flash. But my big question was that I made to myself is how are we going to... depict how we're going to convey time travel and that's when I sort of like started having ideas about visual ideas about how to express time travel uh and tunnel it was it's not something exciting we saw it before the time tunnel also like traveling in time in the blink of an eye so that's when the idea of the chrono will happen which is a stadium uh uh made of memories instead of people there are memories there and it's a down spiral of memories um that is overwhelming because there's so much information and it's magical and it's visually kind of stunning and i i really you know that it was just a concept i didn't know it would it would work until you know i started having conversations with the vfx team and vfx supervisor and and so and so forth uh And yeah, we had the luck to have the resources to bring it to life.
Okay, so Andy and Barbara, you both have worked on amazing horror film projects. And we saw that touch in the movie. So does your experience of horror project help you here?
There wasn't a lot of opportunities to explore horror in this one, except for that character that appears at the end. But I think it was a nice departure. Our love for horror will never die. We will keep on making horror movies.
I did work on this character in particular to make him more monstrous and scary. There's only one scare in the movie, which is when Barry is unconscious and he's having this dream. And this thing happens on the camera. The jumpscare. It's very little, but that was our horror imprint talking.
But we'll go back to make some more horror because we love it. I would love to make a horror movie in India. Oh, yeah. In the haunted palaces of Rajasthan.
Oh, you should visit Bhangarh once. Okay, my question is to you, Andy. We saw Keaton's Batman and we loved what you did with him.
What was your inspiration from Tim Burton's work and how did you manage to keep it relevant even today? Well, the way to keep it relevant is changing him. And I think that the transformation that you see at the beginning is an answer to the big question.
What happened to Bruce Wayne in the last 30 years that we haven't seen him? I had a lot of discussions with an ongoing discussion with Michael Keaton about it. And we finally agreed.
I really wanted him to be in a very different place. where we last saw him uh there's uh there's parts of of this backstory that are not are not completely expressed in the movie but are you can you can imply them um and there is a deleted scene where you actually know what exactly happened why with being batman so stand by for that um but i really wanted uh you know to make uh to make a different Bruce Wayne that we all seen in the last time that we seen him, which was Batman Returns. Same person, of course, but in different circumstances. So when we find him 30 years later, he's like, wow, is that Bruce Wayne?
And that provides an opportunity for a reluctant hero that we need and a transformation and a step up to be Batman again. Thank you. Thank you.
Bye. These scars we have make us who we are. I'm going to have to go back and fix them.
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