Hot on the heels of Warner Bros. producer Charles Roven telling Sci Fi Wire that the Flash movie is “shrouded in mystery” but not actually dead, IESB reports that Dan Mazeau, writer of the upcoming Jonny Quest film, is writing a script.
IESB spoke with Roven, who would not confirm the news, but did talk about the character:
I was always a big fan of the comics. I was around for… Gosh, this is embarrassing, you know, the last two Flashes. The Flash that was the policeman and Kid Flash, Wally, and his uncle. Those are the two Flashes that I grew with, so I was excited to have the opportunity to try and see if I could actually translate those characters to the screen.
When the Flash movie was originally announced in 2004, David Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) was going to write and direct. He finished the script, but Warner Bros. thought it was too dark, and took him off the project. Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) was brought as the new director early in 2007, then replaced later that year by David Dobkin (Fred Claus), and the movie was re-positioned to spin out of the planned Justice League film.
Of course, all that fell apart, the Justice League film is basically on hold, and now Warner Bros. actually wants dark films. But rather than resurrect Goyer’s script, they’re apparently going back to the drawing board.
My cynical take: The original script probably featured Wally West as he took over from Barry Allen. With DC repositioning Barry Allen as the primary Flash, they probably didn’t want to muddy the waters with his successor.
Read up on the sordid history of the Flash Feature Film.
The producer was a “big fan of the comics,” but he can’t even remember the character’s name? That’s a good sign.
Roven was also the producer The Dark Knight Zen…How did that turn out?
Joshua Jackson for Wally West!
Just give me a Shipp cameo. Please, and thank you.
Bullshit, Barry Allen was a successful Flash. The 1990s CBS TV series proved that. The show was a big hit in 1990. John Wesley Shipp gave a brillant performance too.
1. Please watch the language.
2. What exactly are you talking about? Where in this post or the previous comments did anyone say Barry was not a successful Flash?
Barry Allen was successful and I liked the 90’s TV series as well… If it wasn’t the gulf war, it would have been successful as what Smallville is today.