Outside of Clark kent/Superman and Bruce Wayne/Batman.....

[NotFadeAway]

....who do you find to be the best DC Comic book character, and the best suited character to carry his or her own film. And I do not mean giving me an asnwer like Green Lantern or Flash, I mean Wally West, Barry Allen, Kyle Rayner, Hal Jordan, Alan Scott, Oliver Queen , Connor Hawke, Slade Wilson, Dick Grayson, etc etc.

Mine are Wally West and Oliver Queen. I'm honestly going to read up on Barry Allen and give him a chance for a movie, but I prefer Wally West. And I have always thought that both Green Arrow and Nightwing could work as TELEVISION shows more so than movies, as well as a Wally West centered Flash series. I mean, Born to Run will give you a few seasons, and I think a Green Arrow or Nightwing show could be alot like Angel.

 

[SuperFerret]

I've long been a fan of the Martian Manhunter, and he could carry his own movie, but considering the difficulty in getting the Flash, GL and Wonder Woman movies off the ground, the best one can hope for is to see him in a JLA movie.

 

[ZIPBAGS]

Hal Jordan as Green Lantern. He is the first. He is the perfect one to introduce the movie audiences with not only the character. But, the whole idea of a GL Corps. He is a backstory that lends itself to a movie. And once he is established you can introduce the other Earth GL's in future films.

 

[GL's Light]

These are the solo superhero characters I think have the most potential to anchor feature films (although not necessarily big budget blockbusters in every case - some would be more suited to mid-budget films):

The Atom/Ray Palmer or Ryan Choi
Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes
Captain Marvel/Billy Batson
Catwoman/Selina Kyle
Deadman/Boston Brand
The Flash/Barry Allen or Wally West
Green Arrow/Oliver Queen
Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, John Stewart or Kyle Rayner
Manhunter/Kate Spencer
Nightwing/Dick Grayson
Plastic Man/Eel O'Brian
The Question/Vic Sage
The Sandman/Wesley Dodds
Starman/Jack Knight
Supergirl/Kara Zor-El
Wonder Woman/Princess Diana
Zatanna

I think the public could be intrigued by a Justice Society film, and that such a team film with a period setting would be an easier sell than solo period adventures featuring Green Lantern/Alan Scott and The Flash/Jay Garrick.

A Blue Beetle/Ted Kord film might have potential, but the Jaime Reyes version would stand out from the superhero crowd more easily.

Mister Miracle would work better as part of a New Gods film than as a solo feature.

The following have potential, but would be tricky:

Aquaman/Orin/Arthur Curry
Firestorm/Ronnie Raymond
Hawkman/Carter Hall or Katar Hol

While I'd love to see a Hawkworld film, I'm not sure how the public would respond. Hawkman would be a great character to use in team films - both the Golden Age Hawkman in a JSA film and the modern Hawkman in a JLA film - but his ability to carry a solo feature isn't so clear.

 

[Steelsheen]

Princess Diana/ Diana Prince/ Wonder Woman.

damn long overdue.

and for those who says Wonder Woman cant carry her own movie, ever heard of Kill Bill? how about that WW ripoff Xena: Warrior Princess?

'nuff said.

 

[The Guard]

The Spectre. Drama gold there.

 

[ironman29758]

Barry Allen/The Flash
Hal Jordan/Green Lantern
Aquaman/Arthur Joseph Curry/Orin should be a mixture of the silver age Aquaman/the modern age orin aquaman and THE OYL Arthur Curry Aquaman mixxed together
Diana Prince/ Princess Diana/Wonder Woman should be a mixture of silver age/Oyl Wonder Woman
Oliver Queen/Green Arrow and Dinah Lance/Black Canary should be in a movie together instead of standalone movie
Hawkman/Carter Hall the golden age and then the silver age Karter Hol finding out he lived the life of the golden age Hawkman
Blue Beetle/ Ted Kord
Ray Palmer/ The Atom with Ryan Choi in a sequel or as a part of supporting cast in theformula
Martian Manhunter in his John Jones dectetive form
then the JL consisting of Barry, Hal, John Jones, Clark Kent, Diana, Dinah , Authur, Oliver and Bruce

 

[The Major]

You can't throw a dead cat in the DCU without finding good franchises. From the A list to the minor characters the potential is virtually limitless.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Helena Bertinelli/Huntress

Kara Zor-El/Supergirl

 

[protocida]

. Diana Prince.
. Barry Allen.
. Hal Jordan.
. Oliver Queen.
. Billy Batson.
. Katar and Shayera Hol.

 

[Changeling]

-Hal Jordan
-Wonder Woman
-Wally West
-Barry Allen
-Oliver Queen
-Morpheus/Sandman/Dream
-John Constantine
-Nightwing
-Robin (Tim Drake)
-Martian Manhunter
-Aquaman

 

[Kevin Smith]

....who do you find to be the best DC Comic book character, and the best suited character to carry his or her own film. And I do not mean giving me an asnwer like Green Lantern or Flash, I mean Wally West, Barry Allen, Kyle Rayner, Hal Jordan, Alan Scott, Oliver Queen , Connor Hawke, Slade Wilson, Dick Grayson, etc etc.

Mine are Wally West and Oliver Queen. I'm honestly going to read up on Barry Allen and give him a chance for a movie, but I prefer Wally West. And I have always thought that both Green Arrow and Nightwing could work as TELEVISION shows more so than movies, as well as a Wally West centered Flash series. I mean, Born to Run will give you a few seasons, and I think a Green Arrow or Nightwing show could be alot like Angel.

Cool, and thank you for giving Barry a chance. I think you will like him.

This side of DC Comics, I agree with your 2 choices, and would like to add Barry Allen and Hal Jordan to that, along with Ralph Dibney (Elongated Man), Eel O'brien (Plastic Man), and The Atom (Ray Palmer). Read Identity Crisis and tell me Ray and Ralph aren't great characters.

As far as Marvel goes, Captain America (STEVE ROGERS!!!) is a fave of mine.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

My personal pick would be Green Lantern. I think ,when you analyze it, GL has an origin & background to make a big budget space opera.

 

[Lobo]

Diana Prince
Wally West
Hal Jordan
Barry Allen
Orin/Arthur Curry
Oliver Queen
Billy Batson
Selina Kyle (Imagine a live action Selina's Big Score)
Kent Nelson aka Dr Fate
Jim Corrigan Spectre

 

[Peyton Westlake]

And to throw in another opinion, im not so sure the Flas would be a sure fire hit. Most people know him but...can they really make it a serious toned film? I keep thinking Flash will somehow be comedy or dumbed down.

 

[GL's Light]

The Flash has huge potential to be a hit. There are all sorts of nifty things you can do with super speed in terms of FX and action sequences, and the visual elements of the comics are very strong (especially his great iconic costume). If they could capture a tone somewhat similar in terms of balancing humor and drama to the first two Spider-Man films then they'd really have something.

 

[Kevin Smith]

And to throw in another opinion, im not so sure the Flas would be a sure fire hit. Most people know him but...can they really make it a serious toned film? I keep thinking Flash will somehow be comedy or dumbed down.

That's exactly what I think people want to do with it, of course those people don't know ***** about The Flash though.

The Flash has HUGE potential. They could do an awesome movie about Barry Allen with the origin and everything, put Mirror Master in there as the main bad guy, mix in some of the other Rogues, do a sequel with Barry discovering the Multiverse and meeting Jay Garrick, throw some more rogues in, maybe Grodd and the Reverse Flash, introduce Kid Flash/Wally West as a main character, have some tid bits about Barry co-founding the JLA and interacting with other heroes, then do a third film where The Reverse Flash kills Iris and Barry semi-accidentally kills RF and faces the Anti Monitor and sacrafices himself and saves the universe, upon his death, Kid Flash/Wally becomes the new Flash and so on.....they could do sequels forever if they did the first films right and wanted to.

And I truly think the Martian Manhunter is a great character, very cool (my mom even likes him!). I love the John Jones police thing, they could do tons of stuff with that as well.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

That's exactly what I think people want to do with it, of course those people don't know ***** about The Flash though.

The Flash has HUGE potential. They could do an awesome movie about Barry Allen with the origin and everything, put Mirror Master in there as the main bad guy, mix in some of the other Rogues, do a sequel with Barry discovering the Multiverse and meeting Jay Garrick, throw some more rogues in, maybe Grodd and the Reverse Flash, introduce Kid Flash/Wally West as a main character, have some tid bits about Barry co-founding the JLA and interacting with other heroes, then do a third film where The Reverse Flash kills Iris and Barry semi-accidentally kills RF and faces the Anti Monitor and sacrafices himself and saves the universe, upon his death, Kid Flash/Wally becomes the new Flash and so on.....they could do sequels forever if they did the first films right and wanted to.

And I truly think the Martian Manhunter is a great character, very cool (my mom even likes him!). I love the John Jones police thing, they could do tons of stuff with that as well.

Well you do make a good argument for Flash. IF, and thats a big IF the filmmakers do it in an edgy adult tone. I keep thinking its going to be Flash trying to be like Peter Parker with all the forced unfunny one liners.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Well you do make a good argument for Flash.

Thanks, bro. I'm a HUGE Flash fan.

IF, and thats a big IF the filmmakers do it in an edgy adult tone.

That's what I'm sayin'! The film should have a tone similar to Iron Man when it comes to it's protaganist, and The Dark Knight when it comes to the villains. The Flash is a Superman type character with Batman type villains. The Rogues should be scary, vicious killers, kinda like the way Geoff Johns has characterized them, some of them truly out of their minds (like Captain Boomerang). They may look silly but they will kill you. People need to realize that the Rogues aren't silly "kiddie stuff". But like I said, the film should be a cross between Iron Man and TDK. The Flash himself shouldn't be dark or scary, but he shouldn't make a fool of himslef either, like the JLU Flash. He needs to make wisecracks and be sacrastic, witty humor that makes other people feel stupid, the way Barry was in the comics, not makin' a fool of himself and having people laugh at him and think he's a joke, but Barry needs to be SMART, the dude is a forensics scientist, dammit, he's a cop. And the humor shouldn't take you out of or detract from the film or feel out of place. They could do it right if they do some research and really care.

I keep thinking its going to be Flash trying to be like Peter Parker with all the forced unfunny one liners.

Me too, I hope they don't go that route tho.

 

[The Major]

The Flash has huge potential to be a hit. There are all sorts of nifty things you can do with super speed in terms of FX and action sequences, and the visual elements of the comics are very strong (especially his great iconic costume). If they could capture a tone somewhat similar in terms of balancing humor and drama to the first two Spider-Man films then they'd really have something.

 

[mclay18]

- Hal Jordan (GL)
- Diana Prince (WW)

Those two can definitely carry a solo film/potential franchise.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Thanks, bro. I'm a HUGE Flash fan.



That's what I'm sayin'! The film should have a tone similar to Iron Man when it comes to it's protaganist, and The Dark Knight when it comes to the villains. The Flash is a Superman type character with Batman type villains. The Rogues should be scary, vicious killers, kinda like the way Geoff Johns has characterized them, some of them truly out of their minds (like Captain Boomerang). They may look silly but they will kill you. People need to realize that the Rogues aren't silly "kiddie stuff". But like I said, the film should be a cross between Iron Man and TDK. The Flash himself shouldn't be dark or scary, but he shouldn't make a fool of himslef either, like the JLU Flash. He needs to make wisecracks and be sacrastic, witty humor that makes other people feel stupid, the way Barry was in the comics, not makin' a fool of himself and having people laugh at him and think he's a joke, but Barry needs to be SMART, the dude is a forensics scientist, dammit, he's a cop. And the humor shouldn't take you out of or detract from the film or feel out of place. They could do it right if they do some research and really care.



Me too, I hope they don't go that route tho.

Last i read about Flash, wasn't Goyer attached somehow?

 

[GL's Light]

Last i read about Flash, wasn't Goyer attached somehow?

Goyer was attached to write and direct some time ago, but Warners decided against his take on the material and he moved on from the project. Shawn Levy was then attached to direct, but he left and was replaced by David Dobkin. The latest word in screenwriters is that Dan Mazeau has been brought onto the project, although producer Charles Roven would neither confirm nor deny that when asked.

 

[chiefchirpa]

Hal Jordan, Wally West/Barry Allen, Diana Prince, and so on.

I'm sorry, a franchise is a bigger than the individual character. You don't sell Frodo but you sell Lord of the Rings. You don't sell Captain Kirk but you sell Star Trek. 50 % of Movie Joes (especially old fart foreigners like my uncles) might forget the person's name of Batman, Spider-Man, Superman a week after they watch movies but they know about the franchise at least.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Goyer was attached to write and direct some time ago, but Warners decided against his take on the material and he moved on from the project. Shawn Levy was then attached to direct, but he left and was replaced by David Dobkin. The latest word in screenwriters is that Dan Mazeau has been brought onto the project, although producer Charles Roven would neither confirm nor deny that when asked.

Sounds like Flash wont be speeding into theaters anytime soon.