Who Should Play The Flash & Aquaman In The DCU?

Dan Lalonde
Jul 27
2 min read

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What did you honestly think of Zack Snyder's DCEU? Are you sad it ended, or are you happy for James Gunn's new DCU starting? Or are you 100% Marvel all the way?

The last two films in the DCEU were The Flash and Aquaman 2, which were both critical and box office failures. The Flash failed due to star Ezra Miller turning into P. Diddy and a total PR disaster, and Aquaman suffered mostly because everyone knew the DCEU was ending, and no matter what happened, it wouldn't matter. Kinda like Trump opening the Epstein files.

James Gunn, in an interview with Happy Sad Confused Podcast, talked briefly about the future of the Flash and Aquaman in his new universe.

“I wouldn’t say the next two years for either of those characters.”

So who should play the characters? For The Flash, I'm going to change things up and say Matt Rife should play the hero in the way Chris Evans did in Johnny Storm with pure delight of having superpowers. Another choice would be to go older and select Jensen Ackles. Some of the best Supernatural episodes are when Ackles goes full comedy.

For Aquaman, I have to go with Alan Ritchson (Reacher) who previously played the character in Smallville, but since that won't happen, let's go with Austin Butler (Elvis). I have another crazy choice, and that's Justin Hartley (Tracker, This Is Us), who also played Aquaman in the pilot 'Mercy Reef' that didn't get picked up.

So give me some off-the-wall choices. Who would you want to play these characters? Comment below with your thoughts.