Amell's thoughts on WB announcing Flash Movie.
If the WB made any mistake at all, it was sending Johns to talk with Amell
after the announcement instead of before. This came as a surprise to Amell but not Gustin. Amell's a team-player who will tow the company line as long as they give him a vision and keep him in the loop with fair warning.
I've seen DC's announcement compared to proposing on someone else's wedding day, but that doesn't take into account the relative scope of the announcements.
One is the sophomore episode numbers for a weekly TV show (where everyone already knew the approximate numbers prior to the official morning announcement), the other is a slate of films which investors had been clamoring for in which $2 billion a year, for a total of $12 billion, is going to be invested in marketing alone and a combined production budget of at least $2 billion in the largest single announcement of multiple films in cinematic history. One is routine weekly business, the other is literally history in the making during a pre-planned annual investors meeting. Moreover, this is a third party, complaining on behalf of someone who isn't even complaining.
So a more apt illustration (and appropriately absurd, for this non-issue)...
Grant's been showing we've all celebrated the announcement of the pregnancy. He's planning to find out the sex of the baby on Saturday and announce it on Sunday. Sunday is the same day Ken is marrying DeeCee after years of courting, the invitations went out months ago. Sometime prior to the wedding day, Ken reaches out to Grant and confirms some rumors that have been circulating (even gossip columnist Nikki Finke caught wind) that DeeCee has billions that's going to affect their whole family- including Grant- and they're planning to have a kid named after him.
Saturday comes, Grant finds out the sex of the baby and there's rejoicing even before the formal Sunday announcement. Sunday, Ken and DeeCee get married and there's much rejoicing, moreover, they reveal DeeCee's loaded and they're planning on kids.
Weeks later, Cousin Stephen- not Grant- grumbles that Ken should have moved his wedding day for Grant's Sunday announcement, or if they were going to say they were having ten kids, they shouldn't have said they were naming one after Grant since it takes away from Grant's baby. Nevermind the fact, this is all the same family, that it's in Grant's honor because the name is so good, and that Grant has no problem with it.
That's how ridiculous this is.
If we want to get even more granular, Johns already announced months in advance of The Flash's debut that the TV and Cinematic worlds were not merging and a Flash movie was all but inevitable... like if "Grant" was a traditional family name that
someone was going to name their kid after eventually and everyone knows it.
Bottom line, Amell's probably speaking more out of his own hurt of being kept out of the loop than Gustin's... which tends to be the case when people take up offenses for others.
