The Flash Production is Moving in Slo-Mo

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 19, 2008

As if it were gift wrapped and sent with chocolates, this story win’s this week’s award for most pun-prone news item. According to our good friend Ryan Rotten over at ShockTillYouDrop, producer Charles Roven is saying that the production of The Flash movie has ‘no momentum.’ Roven, who also produced The Dark Knight, didn’t say much else, but implied that the production is just not on the top of the priority list for Warner Bros. at this point.

The last time we were talking seriously about The Flash was almost exactly a year ago, when Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin said that he would be taking the reigns on the project, and that it would be set in the same universe as George Miller’s Justice League film. Of course, those who have been following along with the bouncing ball that is the production of Justice League, that particular universe may never actually be committed to film. That said, it comes as no surprise that The Flash is currently stalled by the side of the road. In fact, despite all of their promises of having a new vision for their DC Comic library, it still looks like Warner Bros. is mostly just standing around with their thumbs… well, you get the point.

As for The Flash, I would love to see it happen — and I think that the previously rumored Ryan Reynolds would make a great choice for the title role. Though, history tells us that we are more likely to see Reynolds in a Deadpool stand-alone film long before he is breaking land speed records.

Do you think that a Flash movie would ever happen if the Justice League movie doesn’t happen first? As well, which movie would you rather see Ryan Reynolds take on first, The Flash or Deadpool?

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Will C

Honestly, the only thing less interesting to me than Flash having his own movie would be Namor having his own movie.

Allynd Dudnikov

Will C, you've obviously not read the Flash comics! A Movie based on the Flash would be great if handled correctly. The thing with him is that he's got such a close tie to his villains look at the Pied Piper or The Trickster he's often friends with them and remind them to take their medication. This movie deserves a great director and could possible be the only franchise (aside from Ambush Bug) that could use a slight dose of camp because its mostly inherent to the Flash series.

nevernude

meh. i used to think the flash persona was awesome...i mean a dude who travels at great speeds. love the comics. but his power has been ripped off by that character in Heroes..(daphne is it?) that the whole premise isnt as exciting as it actually could be..

Matt

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool would be much more interesting and Im not even one of those crazy die hard Deadpool fan. But Marvel's movies are more tied-in and..I guess organized alot more than DC movies. I mean it seems no one can even follow the production of these guys. Deadpool FTW

The Flash Production is Moving in Slo-Mo

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