Flash Film - Classic or Dud??

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Apparently David "Blade Trinity" Goyer is developing a Flash film. Will it be any good? Who will be the villain? Gorilla Grodd? Mirror Master? Capt'n Cold? The Turtle? The entire Rogues Gallery? What do you reckon, cats and kittens?

― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Variety (whose report was picked up by the comics press) was reporting that it would be about Jay Garrick! Wtf!

The good thing is that Goyer used to cowrite JSA with Geoff Johns who rulez on the Flash right now, so at very least, if the movie sucks, he'll get his ass kicked.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Goyer confirms Wally West and suggests Ryan Reynolds for the role.

http://www.moviehole.net/news/4718.html

But who cares who plays Flash as long as the villain is Grodd! Grodd. Grodd. Played by Bea Arthur.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I wouldn’t do The Rock. Here’s my point: Ryan put on twenty to twenty-two pounds for this movie, I’m not saying Thor will be Ryan Reynolds, but he’s [Ryan] a big guy in it – he’s massive, I’d rather take an actor [Like Reynolds] and pack on the muscle and have him be Thor, rather than have someone that comes out of wrestling.

DUD

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ryan Reynolds vs Rock: Thespian Showdown!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

They ought to get Tonya Harding as the Golden Glider. I hope this is ace but I am sure it will be dud and they will spend ages setting up his origin blah blah blah.

― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If they asked me (which they won't because I have an unlisted number) I'd say, forget the origin. Establish in the opening sequence that the Flash has been around for a while, even that there have been Flashes before him--if there's a demand, they can always do a Barry Allen prequel--and just get straight into telepathic super-gorilla threats!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I would just get straight into it as well - though I would have a bunch of rogues he has arrested meeting in the slammer like in The Usual Suspects and deciding to team up to take him out forevah!
much as I love super-evil psychic gorillas, I don't think they will come across too well on film.

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Super-evil gorillas would come across well if they used the Monsieur Mallah/Brain gay love affair in a GM scripted Doom Patrol movie.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, they'd probably get Jeremy Irons to play Grodd and it would be as lame as The Time Machine.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

From CBR:

The Done Deal script sales archive has listed info on David Goyer's Flash film. The script was logged on 12/17/04, and the logline reads: "An aspiring athlete is exposed to heavy water fumes which gives him the ability to move at incredible speeds." It also notes David Goyer as writer and director.

http://www.scriptsales.com/ArchivesDec04.html

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Also on Scriptsalses's Dec page:

Title:         Super Ex
Log Line:   A man discovers that the woman he's dating is a superhero and then decides to break up when she becomes too needy and manipulative. She then uses her superpowers to turn his life into a living nightmare.
Writer:       Don Payne
Agent:       n/a
Buyer:       Regency Enterprises
Price:        n/a
Genre:       Comedy
Logged:     12/13/04
More:        Spec script. Pariah's Gavin Polone will produce.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have nothing to add to Huk's last post that won't end w/ me hurting myself.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Oh this is going to suck.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=31139

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

It'll be cool if it's set in 1939.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Ryan Reynolds UNDER THE HELMET!!!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Second hand news from Superherohype.com:

The New York Daily News talked to Batman Begins writer David Goyer about his next gig, the big screen adaptation of The Flash, which he'll write and direct.

"Fans know there's been more than one Flash over the years," Goyer adds. "There's been a lot of speculation and rumor, but both Barry Allen and Wally West will be in this movie."

Goyer is referring to the The Flash's "normal" identity. He started as Jay Garrick in 1940. Allen took over in 1956 and Wallace (introduced as Kid Flash in 1959) in 1986.

"We're going to go into the 'Speed Force' and a lot of the cosmic aspects of the character from the more recent past," Goyer says. "Trust me, we're going to do a lot more than have the Flash run on water and create vortexes.

"I have a guy from M.I.T. helping me with all of this. We're going to be playing with relativity, Doppler effects and all kinds of things like that. Audiences will be amazed."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Does M.I.T. even have a screenwriting dept.?

Anyway, get out yr wooden spoons, it's gaggin' time:
http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060504_speedy_movement_on_flash_movie.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

film is dead

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

RIP flash film.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 4 February 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

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