There’s been a lot of DC and Warner Bros-related news over the last few days: the AT&T/Time Warner merger approved, Diane Nelson departing DCE, Geoff Johns leaving his executive positions to focus on writing and producing, and now a new movie strategy as reported by THR.
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Game Night) are the latest directors attached to the Flash movie, which is now scheduled to go into production with Ezra Miller in 2019. THR says they are “looking to Back to the Future as a touchstone” as far as tone is concerned — and refers to the movie as The Flash, rather than Flashpoint. Whether that’s simple shorthand or a deliberate title change is unclear, but they seem to be going for something a bit less grim than the original Flashpoint. No word on whether Wonder Woman and Cyborg are still involved.
As for the small screen, we don’t know much about The Flash Season Five, but we do know that after half a season on Legends of Tomorrow, Keiynan Lonsdale’s Wally West is leaving the show. He’s set to be in the Season 5 premiere of The Flash, but won’t be returning as a regular on either series. In a message on Instagram, he explains that it was his decision to move on, but that it’s “not a total goodbye” — “Wally West will still be round when you need him the most!”
Update: Literally 5 minutes after posting this, I saw that Danielle Nicolet (D.A. Cecile Horton) is being promoted to series regular next year.
Update 2: Hartley Sawyer (Ralph Dibny) has also been promoted to regular for season five.
Update 3: Jessica Parker Kennedy, who plays the future Nora West-Allen (Iris & Barry’s daughter), is also going to be a regular.
The last rumour I heard about the Flash movie was that the villains will be the Rogues, but movie stuff has changed so many times over the years that I no longer pay attention to it unless it’s announced by WB or DC…and even that changes a lot, as we’ve seen with the rotating directors and Flashpoint/possible not Flashpoint, and so on. I’m not going to believe anything until it’s in production.
…so apparently I’ve gotten jaded about Flash movies 😉
I was hoping we could move past Flashpoint and just tell a fun Flash yarn. (honestly, at this point, I think it’s been done to death anyway!)
Having the rogues as a group vs the Flash would be a fantastic alternative. I mean, the Flash (as Barry Allen) has been around since the mid 50s there has to be a thousand stories that can be used asa model for a standalone film.