The Flash Secret Files and Origins 2010, originally scheduled for this week, has slipped a second time, from March 31 to April 7. With any luck, this will be the last of the delays that have dogged the series since midway through Flash: Rebirth.
The Flash #1 is still scheduled for its original launch date, April 14.
Collider reports from Showest that Warner Bros. plans to use DC superheroes as the new “tent pole” big-event movies, taking the place the Harry Potter films have had for the past decade. Word is that the Flash is up next after Green Lantern, aiming for a 2012 release.
Greg Berlanti, recently rumored to be in the running for director, ducked the question when asked about the film.
Also of interest: Warner Bros. plans to release all of their tentpoles in 3D. I’m not sure how effective 3-D would be for the Flash or his usual Rogues Gallery, but it has some interesting possibilities if they toss in a brief fight with the Folded Man.
The project has been in development hell for years (Warner Bros. announced it in 2004), but with the new DC Entertainment organization, we’re finally starting to see movement.
(via It’s a Dan’s World, SpeedsterSite, and ComicsBlips)
DC has posted their Brightest Day solicitations, including Flash #3.
It may be BRIGHTEST DAY, but when a mysterious group of so-called heroes turns up, another Rogue ends up dead. Plus, the mystery deepens as The Flash witness another murder — his own!
On sale JUNE 9 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by GEOFF JOHNS • Art and cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL • 1:10 variant cover by GREG HORN
Notes: It looks like they’re going to keep going with the variant covers for a while. The “solve your own murder” reminds me of “Emergency Stop,” the first story in Grant Morrison and Mark Millar’s brief run on the book. in the late 1990s.
Also, Jesse Quick gets a cover spot in a JLA/JSA crossover, and Lobo fights Atrocitus in Green Lantern.
On another note…
Don’t forget the Design Your Own Flash Ring Contest is still running through April 26!
Strathaar at Comic Bloc reports from Emerald City Comicon:
Sunday conversation or Superman panel today, I’m tired so everything is mixing together, Sattler was asked about Wally West and wtf is up with the backup being dropped. The fan asked where he could get his fix on.
Sattler replied he can’t say details just yet, but in the next little bit they will have an announcement, and they have big plans for Wally that we will enjoy.
In the same thread, Bookwriter sheds some light on the Kid Flash news.
I attended the DC Nation Panel yesterday at Emerald City Comic Con, and an audience member asked if there was still plans for a new Kid Flash monthly. Ian Sattler did not come out and answer the questions, but smiled, winked and nodded his head up and down. We all clapped and cheered.
Finally, Broken Frontier reports from MegaCon:
Flash is the character to watch next with it’s creative team striving to make Barry Allen the premier Flash. It was revealed that early iterations of the new ongoing was almost like a team book with the whole Flash family, but they decided to make it more Barry focused. Didio joked about it being akin to the Hannah Barbara’s Wacky Races. Visions of Dick Dastardly dressed as Zoom danced in my head.
Buried in Pop Culture Zoo’s write-up of DC Nation at Emerald City Comicon this weekend is this line:
A Kid Flash series is still being planned.
Whether it will ever see the light of day, who knows? I suppose anything’s possible. DC is finally launching that Zatanna series they talked about two years ago, Top Cow is doing that Velocity series that was supposed to spin out of 2007’s Pilot Season, and even Teen Titans: Games has finally got a release date after twenty years.
Also of possible interest to Flash fans: the JSA will return to Smallville at the end of this season, and there’s talk of Hal Jordan and possibly Barry Allen having adventures in the distant future.
More coverage at Comics Alliance, and Comic Book Resources, and a good round-up at Robot6.
It looks like Barry Allen will get another chance to say, “Sorry I’m late.” Flash: Secret Files and Origins 2010 was originally scheduled for March 24. According to DC’s website, it’s now on the schedule for March 31.
The ongoing series is still on track for its April 14 launch.