George Clooney Talks About That Flash Cameo

DC's The Flash film finally hit theaters this summer with less-than-stellar reviews, all the while enveloped by reports of Ezra Miller's infamous behavior the past few years made the perfect recipe for a box office bomb. This doesn't even include the fact that James Gunn and Peter Safran announced their new slate of DC projects that reboots the entire DC Universe film slate of the past 10 years at the beginning of the year.

While the film revved interest from fans including Michael Keaton's long-awaited return as Bruce Wayne and Batman after 30 years, there was another cameo that a lot of fans didn't anticipate, or maybe even care about--George Clooney as another Bruce Wayne.

At the end of the film, Miller's Barry Allen is on the phone with Bruce Wayne after finally returning to his own Earth and timeline, or so he thinks. Wayne pulls up to the courthouse in his car and he is revealed to be played by Clooney, not the Ben Affleck version of Batman that Barry expected. Affleck's Bruce and Batman also appear in the movie, making the Batman total of three.

"Oh yeah. Somehow there were not a lot of requests for me to reprise my role as Batman, I don’t know why," he joked to The Hollywood Reporter. The star also confirmed it was a one-and-done thing.

Clooney played Bruce Wayne and Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin in 1997, which box office and critical reviews led to the stoppage of the franchise and the eventual reboot of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.