Warner Bros.’ The Flash shall be a full month outdated by the top of the weekend, and to say it’s had an eventful lifecycle is likely to be understating issues a bit. If issues couldn’t get any stranger for the film that WB hoped could be a world sensation after which very a lot wasn’t, the movie is quickly going to be a blockchain film—one which WB seemingly hopes finds a second life in that market of the tech trade?
Billed as “the primary new launch film to hit the blockchain,” The Flash Web3 Film Expertise provides consumers an “immersive web3 expertise” that permits them to entry quite a few digital places. Every of these places, just like the Batplane or Barry’s room, include secret augmented actuality collectibles that result in behind-the-scenes footage and unique content material. Past that, there’s additionally a voucher to redeem a DC NFT from the comedian writer’s personal NFT market, and “randomly chosen key artwork” for the movie with various ranges of rarity. The immersive expertise mainly seems (and sounds) like an interactive model of what could be the principle menu for the movie’s eventual residence launch, and you may see beneath what all that entails.
WB’s been on the NFT prepare for a few yr now, having famously transformed The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring into an NFT that was reportedly fairly dangerous. Tying an already disliked (and failing) know-how onto a film that’s been brazenly struggling to search out a lot of an viewers because it got here out doesn’t really feel like the correct transfer, much more so while you see that there’s two totally different editions—”premium” and “thriller”—with shares “restricted” respectively to 2,000 and 10,000 copies.
If this appears like your cup of tea, then The Flash Web3 Film Expertise will launch on July 18 through WB’s web3 web site. For anybody else, you may wait till (most likely) August or September for The Flash to hit streaming and bodily.
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