The Official Flash Thread

[MadVillainy]

HAs anybody read any of the work of the screenwriter or seen any of his movies

 

[Kevin Smith]

I could see Wally being highly comedic, though even he doesn't need to be for a good movie adaption they should just keep the humor to a minimum like in the Spider-man films while Barry Allen should be completely serious. You don't need comedy directors near this unless they're in Favreau's league.

Kerry Conran could be a good Flash director.

They don't need a comedy director to make it work, for either Flash. Comedy is easy and can be conveyed through a character's attitude. There's no need for slapstick stuff like Rush Hour or whatever. There can be some funny scenes but they should not be the crux of the movie.

And Barry Allen should not be completely serious, he isn't in the comics anyway. The movie should have the same tone that Iron man had to it.

I always thought a funny scene would be that one of the first times Barry ejects his Flash suit from the ring, he gets it on at super speed and is ready to dart off, but stops quickly and looks behind him and sees all his civillian clothes on the floor (which he picks up at super speed).

Stuff like that would be cool in The Flash movie without taking one out of the story. They also need to keep Barry generally optimistic and humorous, but a bit of a law and order type.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i totally agree.

 

[The Major]

They don't need a comedy director to make it work, for either Flash. Comedy is easy and can be conveyed through a character's attitude. There's no need for slapstick stuff like Rush Hour or whatever. There can be some funny scenes but they should not be the crux of the movie.

And Barry Allen should not be completely serious, he isn't in the comics anyway. The movie should have the same tone that Iron man had to it.

I always thought a funny scene would be that one of the first times Barry ejects his Flash suit from the ring, he gets it on at super speed and is ready to dart off, but stops quickly and looks behind him and sees all his civillian clothes on the floor (which he picks up at super speed).

Stuff like that would be cool in The Flash movie without taking one out of the story. They also need to keep Barry generally optimistic and humorous, but a bit of a law and order type.

Agreed.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Reasons for Barry

• First Flash to wear the modern Flash suit
• Was Flash for the longest
• More Serious
• In comics, one of the original member of Justice League

That's good, but his stories aren't dead serious like Batman. They do have humor to them.

I'd also add:

Barry has the best origin.

Barry has the coolest job. (forensic scientist)

Barry fought all the Rogues first and is the harbringer of Wally and Bart. Without him there is no Wally or Bart.

Reasons for Wally

• Funnier

I don't think Wally is funnier per sa, he's just less intelligent, and if that makes him do stupid things that are funny then I guess you could categorize him as funnier.

• Modern Day Flash

This isn't entirely true as he won't be wearing Barry's suit anymore and that Barry Allen is the main Flash again, like Hal Jordan is the main GL. However, Wally is still active as a Flash, so that isn't entirely false.

• All Flash TV Appearances (1990 Show, JL Animated, JL Live Action Pilot) even though 2 of them have been named Barry Allen have had more qualities for Wally

Now that isn't true at all. In fact, it's quite the other way around:

Flash TV show:

Was entirely Barry Allen, the only Wally elements were the STAR Labs and Tina McGee, also the fact that he could only run at the speed of sound. Other than that he was entirely Barry Allen, the producers/writers even said that they liked/wanted Barry because he had more humor than most the other DC heroes and because of his origin and forensics job, they said the forensics job would give Barry reasons to be The Flash the same way Clark Kent being a reporter gives him reasons to be Superman. They also said they liked his easy going nature. They added the STAR Labs element from the Wally stories because they wanted as many story building elements as they could get, and they could change back and forth from the police lab to the STAR labs stuff to build stories. A big reason why this was done was because they couldn't do actual supervillains on the show like the Rogues, so they'd build more stories with STAR labs.

My problems with the show were that they made him a vengeance driven character with the murdrer of his tv show brother, and that the show was darker than the comics, almost like the Batman films, altho the producers said they were trying to emulate the Watchmen comic series.

Mark Waid said that the reason he never gave Wally a secret identity or job or a personal life is because Wally's lifelong dream was to be The Flash, ever since he was a kid. He was a celbrity and could make money off of it, why would he need a job or identity? Why would he want to do anything else if he was living his dream? He's Wally West, full time superhero.


Justice League/JLU:

The only Wally West elements about this Flash were his name and likeness (red hair) and the fact that Linda Park appeared in an episode.

Everything else was Barry Allen, such as the secret identity/forensics job, the origin, the fact that he's the first/only scarlet speedster, the Flash costume ring, the city he lived in (Central City), all the silver age versions of the Rogues, the fact that he co-founded the JLA/was part of the original 7, not to mention all the various nods to famous silver age Barry Allen stories such as the giant head (The Flash #117), turining into a gorailla, fat Flash (The Flash #115), and the Superman VS Flash race on the Superman cartoon, all were elements of Barry Allen's story.

The personality is that of Bart Allen's/Impulse's, with a little Guy Gardner, his relationship with Batman was like Guy's relationship with Bats in JLI. The producers of the show were even going to use Impulse before Flash, but opted to use his personality with the actual Flash character. Wally in the comics is much more sensible and tempermental/hot headed (and slightly whiny) than how he was displayed on JL/JLU.

The JLA live action pilot was supposed to be Barry Allen but they just made up a lot of crap - wanted it to be like "Friends" and it sucked.

The Batman:

Altho never seen in his secret identity on he show, this Flash was BARRY ALLEN (the producers said so). He is from Barry's city (Central City), used abilities that only Barry could do (such as the molecule vibration), fought the Mirror Master (Sam Scudder version, one of Barry's original enemies), and helped found the JLA with fellow members Green Lantern/Hal Jordan and Green Arrow/Oliver Queen (both best friends of Barry's in the comics). Also, it would have been impossible for this show's Flash to be Wally West or Bart Allen, as the show's Robin was Dick Grayson, who is the same age as Wally West and much older than Bart Allen.

He has Barry's personality with a hint of Bart Allen.


Justice League: The New Frontier:

This Flash was entirely Barry Allen, altho I'm not sure why they colored his eyes brown in some scenes when Barry has blue eyes.

Barry also has all the Flash and JLA cartoons from the sixties to the eighties, so in actuality Barry Allen still has the most appearances in alternate media.

• Wally is the fastest Flash

I know that's been stated a few times in Waid's run, kinda like how they tried to tell us Kyle was "better" than Hal back in the day, but there is no evidence for that. Did you read Final Crisis? The whole time all three Flashes were running, Barry Allen was waaaaaaay in front, with Wally trailing behind him.

Barry also ran over 100 times faster than the speed of light, faster than any other speedster has ever gone, in Crisis on Infinite Earths before he turned into the lightning bolt that hit himself. Wally can run at about the speed of light.

Now Barry Allen is back among the living, so he survived running over 100 times faster than the speed of light.

Here's The Flash: Rebirth #3 with Barry racing Superman, settling who's faster: the fastest Flash or Superman. I think Barry is, no contest.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Agreed.

Thanks.

 

[MadVillainy]

Now that isn't true at all. In fact, it's quite the other way around:

Flash TV show:

Was entirely Barry Allen, the only Wally elements were the STAR Labs and Tina McGee, also the fact that he could only run at the speed of sound. Other than that he was entirely Barry Allen, the producers/writers even said that they liked/wanted Barry because he had more humor than most the other DC heroes and because of his origin and forensics job, they said the forensics job would give Barry reasons to be The Flash the same way Clark Kent being a reporter gives him reasons to be Superman. They also said they liked his easy going nature. They added the STAR Labs element from the Wally stories because they wanted as many story building elements as they could get, and they could change back and forth from the police lab to the STAR labs stuff to build stories. A big reason why this was done was because they couldn't do actual supervillains on the show like the Rogues, so they'd build more stories with STAR labs.

My problems with the show were that they made him a vengeance driven character with the murdrer of his tv show brother, and that the show was darker than the comics, almost like the Batman films, altho the producers said they were trying to emulate the Watchmen comic series.

Mark Waid said that the reason he never gave Wally a secret identity or job or a personal life is because Wally's lifelong dream was to be The Flash, ever since he was a kid. He was a celbrity and could make money off of it, why would he need a job or identity? Why would he want to do anything else if he was living his dream? He's Wally West, full time superhero.


Justice League/JLU:

The only Wally West elements about this Flash were his name and likeness (red hair) and the fact that Linda Park appeared in an episode.

Everything else was Barry Allen, such as the secret identity/forensics job, the origin, the fact that he's the first/only scarlet speedster, the Flash costume ring, the city he lived in (Central City), all the silver age versions of the Rogues, the fact that he co-founded the JLA/was part of the original 7, not to mention all the various nods to famous silver age Barry Allen stories such as the giant head (The Flash #117), turining into a gorailla, fat Flash (The Flash #115), and the Superman VS Flash race on the Superman cartoon, all were elements of Barry Allen's story.

The personality is that of Bart Allen's/Impulse's, with a little Guy Gardner, his relationship with Batman was like Guy's relationship with Bats in JLI. The producers of the show were even going to use Impulse before Flash, but opted to use his personality with the actual Flash character. Wally in the comics is much more sensible and tempermental/hot headed (and slightly whiny) than how he was displayed on JL/JLU.

The JLA live action pilot was supposed to be Barry Allen but they just made up a lot of crap - wanted it to be like "Friends" and it sucked.

The Batman:

Altho never seen in his secret identity on he show, this Flash was BARRY ALLEN (the producers said so). He is from Barry's city (Central City), used abilities that only Barry could do (such as the molecule vibration), fought the Mirror Master (Sam Scudder version, one of Barry's original enemies), and helped found the JLA with fellow members Green Lantern/Hal Jordan and Green Arrow/Oliver Queen (both best friends of Barry's in the comics). Also, it would have been impossible for this show's Flash to be Wally West or Bart Allen, as the show's Robin was Dick Grayson, who is the same age as Wally West and much older than Bart Allen.

He has Barry's personality with a hint of Bart Allen.


Justice League: The New Frontier:

This Flash was entirely Barry Allen, altho I'm not sure why they colored his eyes brown in some scenes when Barry has blue eyes.

Barry also has all the Flash and JLA cartoons from the sixties to the eighties, so in actuality Barry Allen still has the most appearances in alternate media.

I didnt count New Frontier because I said TV. You have me on the Batman, in JLU

Straight for wiki
The Flash TV series (1990–1991)

Main article: The Flash (TV series)
The Flash was a live action television series on CBS that starred John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays. The Flash featured in the series was an amalgamation of the silver-age Flash, Barry Allen, and the modern-age Wally West. The only resemblances between the TV Barry Allen Flash and the comic book Barry Allen Flash were his name, his profession as a forensic scientist, and his love interest Iris (who was very short lived as a love interest in the television series). Most of the elements in the television show were taken directly from the main story line in the first Wally West Flash comic books: The S.T.A.R. Labs researcher Tina McGee, her and her husband's research into speed, her husband's allegedly fatal accident with their speed research, the Flash's ravenous appetite, heat problems (which were mitigated by the TV show Flash suit), and speed limit on the order of the speed of sound were all elements from the main Wally West comic book storyline.
The Flash's most famous villain in the series was the Trickster, played by Mark Hamill, which oddly foreshadowed Hamill's subsequent success at voicing the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and, later, the Trickster in Justice League Unlimited. Captain Cold, played by Michael Champion, and Mirror Master, played by David Cassidy, also appeared in their own episodes. The complete series was released as a DVD set by Warner Bros. in 2006.
The Flash TV Special #1 comic introduced a variation on Kid Flash. This particular version of the character was a teenage thief named Vince Everett. Unlike The Flash, his powers did not require eating to replenish. His speed is pushed to the limit as he chases The Flash through an amusement park, eventually burning out his powers.


Justice League of America pilot (1997)

The Flash (Barry Allen) was in a CBS live-action pilot called Justice League of America, portrayed by Kenny Johnston. The pilot did not air in the United States. Similar to The Flash TV series, this Flash appeared to be Barry Allen in name only, as he reflected Wally's age, ravenous appetite, and personality. In addition, this version of Justice League was inspired by the Keith Giffen-era Justice League, of which Wally was a member.


JL/JLU
The Flash in this series is a hybrid of both Barry Allen and Wally West.
Barry Allen elements of the JL/JLU animated Flash: he's the only existing Flash in the series, he was never Kid Flash. He lives in Central City, Barry Allen's hometown as opposed to Keystone City, Wally West's hometown. He is a police scientist, which was Barry Allen's job in the comics. His origin is also that of Barry Allen's. This Flash also fought some of Barry Allen's enemies throughout the series, such as Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, Gorilla Grodd, and The Trickster. Wally also has the Flash ring, which was invented by Barry Allen in the comics, to store his Flash costume in.
Wally West elements of the JL/JLU animated Flash: he has red hair and green eyes like Wally does in the comics. This Flash also has Wally's girl-crazed, occasionally big-headed manner, paired with a childlike attitude and intelligence. When he tries to vibrate his molecules through solid objects, he causes them to explode as opposed to passing through the object intangible like Barry Allen would. Linda Park, Wally's girlfriend and eventual wife in the comics, appears in an episode and is a suggested love interest for the Flash.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Blackman,

That's basically what I was saying, lol.

Barry also has the 1970s "Legends of the Superpowers" tv movie with Adam West and the 60s-80s DC cartoons.

 

[MadVillainy]

Slightly Updated

Wally West/The Flash= Scott Porter

Linda Park= Linda Park

Jay Garrick= Gary Cole (dyed hair)

Joan Garrick= Emma Thompson (dyed hair)

Barry Allen/The Flash= Peter Krause (in flashbacks)

Iris West= Mary Louise Parker

Hunter Zolomon/Zoom= Shane West

Mirror Master= Christian Slater

Captain Cold= Jean Reno

Captain Boomerang= David Wenham

I cast Barry and Joan

 

[NotFadeAway]

Slightly Updated



I cast Barry and Joan

You don't know how happy that makes me to see someone else agree that Peter Krause is the PERFECT, PERFECT, PERFECT older Barry Allen.

 

[NotFadeAway]

So, for a fresh faced Barry Allen, I have settled on either Scott Porter or Ben McKenzie.

An actor who is starting to grow on me for Wally West though is Jonathan Murphy. It's unconventional I know, but there is something about him that mkaes me think Murphy could nail it.

 

[Webhead2006]

what work has he done?

 

[The Major]

Thomas Dekker could make a good Wally. He's great on Terminator.

 

[NotFadeAway]

what work has he done?

Murphy is on Life of Mars, he was Bryan Greenbergs brother on October Road, He was in Wildfire, and a few movie like Broken Windows, which was well acted despite cluster mess of a script.

It's an unconventional choice like I said, he can look a little to geeky, but there is quality acting talent with Murphy, and his personality fits elements of Wally.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Has anybody considered the fact that though the Flash is badass, he has some pretty lame villans besides Zoom and The Black Flash...

Captain Boomerang?
Mirror Master?

I mean... how would YOU... update these characters....
No disrespect to the mythos of course...

 

[batlovescatDC]

They should have so stuck with Goyer's adaptation. It pi**es me off so bad that they scrapped it. It would've been awesome. Oh, well... we'll get one soon enough. GYLLENHAAL FOR WALLY!

 

[protocida]

Flash's Rogues are awesome. I think the only thing that would have to be changed are some of the uniforms, like Trickster or Captain Cold ones.

 

[Kevin Smith]

My ideas for The Flash movie:

For starters, let's go with the basics: The Flash is all about speed. Everything about him literally is about speed and its related forms. His whole life is about speed. That's the premise of the film, and in the age of technology where everyone wants everything instantly, instant communications, etc, speed is an incredibly relevant concept. Barry Allen is slow, The Flash is fast. That is the movie.

Now I know that people like Wally West because he took over for Barry (and acts like a less jerky Anakin Skywalker) and I don't mean any disrespect to the character because frankly, despite my Barry fandom, I do like Wally too, but The Flash was never supposed to be about a guy trying to fill a dead guy's boots (which is a cool concept, it works for Wally and Bucky and will probably work for Robin, but honestly, what else were they gonna do with those characters?). It was always supposed to be about speed. That's what the character is supposed to be about, that's what the book was always supposed to be about (which is a fact I think people have forgotten or are just completely oblivious to with Wally and the legacy aspect so prevelant in the last few years), and that's what the movie needs to be about: the fastest man alive. And that man is Barry Allen.

Barry Allen is not only the only MAJOR DC character to have his powers because of an accident, but is the only one who has powers because of his one, major flaw. Hal Jordan has the Green Lantern ring because he is brave and honest, because of his good character traits. Barry Allen has super speed because he is lazy/late for everything, and by extension uncommited or easily distracted (a classic attribute of the absent minded professor syndrome), he has powers because of his character flaws.

The whole reason he is a forensics scientist is because he wants to help people, but he also wants to take his time at it - and chemistry takes time to get right. Had he not been late for work/everything else, he would not have had to work late in the forensics lab to make up for lost time the night he got hit by lightning/electrically charged chemicals (at age 24) and gained superspeed. Barry Allen is essentially fast because he is slow. He goes from being the guy everyone is waiting on to the guy waiting for everyone else. In a complex sense, this is like how Jon Osterman became Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen, because he was a watchmaker and could reassemble things. That is what's so great about Barry Allen, it's not his accomplishments, it's not his emoluments, it's not the fact that he was The Flash longer than anyone else, it's not that he's the iconic Flash that makes him the greatest Flash, Barry Allen is the definitive Flash because he is the only one who is all about speed. He is fast because he is slow. He's all about speed.


Characterization:

Barry Allen is 24 years old and has had his job as a forensics scientist for the Central City Police Department for about a year. He is easy-going, optimistic and humorous, intelligent and inventive, and a bit of a law and order type, but he is also lazy and late for everything; he's slow, this is his major character flaw. Been that way all his life. Barry is easily distracted or uncommitted. He has a super hot reporter girlfriend he met in college. She really likes him, and he her, but she is career driven and doesn't like to be kept waiting, which is unfortunate considering who her boyfriend is.

Structure/Story (beginning):

I'd say start the beginning of the film with the actual scene of the accident, with a tall, young, strawberry blonde haired, blue eyed man that we could otherwise care less about getting hit by lightning alone in his lab, we know nothing about him. (This is how someone who doesn't care about characterization may have done The Flash film for all we know) But right before the lightning strikes the man, a centimeter away from his chest, everything, the lightning, the broken glass falling through the air, it all stops. A voice begins to speak. It's Barry Allen (but we don't know that yet). He says something to the effect of "You know that feeling you get right before something happens, usually life threatening, that will change your life forever? That feeling where your whole life flashes before your eyes? That's what happened to me on the night of the accident. The night my life changed forever". He could say something like that, and then the camera swirls around his body, still paused in mid air with everything else, and travels toward the lightning almost touching his chest, electrified chemicals swirling around it, and the camera climbs up the lightning and out the window, into the night sky, all the way into the storm cloud from which it came and then the credits could begin here and go on for about 2 minutes.

After the credits sequence, we could see a child reading comics in bed. We find that it is Barry when his mother calls into him, asking him to shut off the lights and stop reading comics so he can get to sleep so he can get to school early tomorrow.

We also find that this is Barry because he is narrating. They could cut to a series of scenes, one showing Barry in school, alone, because he was late again, where he finishes his papers last and gives them to the teacher where he says something like his grades are better than most everyone's in the class, but he's just so slow. Also cut to child running on track, maybe pan up, we are meant to think it is Barry Allen, but it isn't, the camera then drags all the way to the back of the track revealing Barry Allen, the last to cross the finish line. They could do stuff like that, to establish that he's late for everything, even that early in his life.

Also show him in college, getting his degree in forensics and meeting Iris. He is late for his first date with her because he's lazy, he gets distracted doing something else and keeps putting off getting ready to leave. A series of scenes could be done to convey that he's late for nearly every date he's had with her, every seminar in college, etc.

He eventually gets his job at CCPD, where he is also late, despite making every effort to be on time, for his first day on the job. He is slow and pragmatic and a bit of a doormat for the other cops there, but he is eventually also the best forensic scientist CCPD has, he is dependable and has solved cases for every cop that's laughed at him and they respect him for that.

Because Barry is always late to see Iris and sometimes can't see her at all, he just shows up at her job, and although she loves to see him, this is during her work hours, and it pisses her off because she can't be with him everytime there's a commercial break or see him once shooting has wrapped for the tv station. By the time we get to the few weeks before the accident, Barry's chronic lateness has escalated into this; he has been late so many times to his work that he may lose his job, "best" at it or not, because he's been late so many times, and because he's been late so many times, he has to work late in order to make up for all the lost time, and because of this, he has to keep canceling dates with Iris, which pisses her off because he is not only late whenever he comes to see her but now it's like he doesn't want to see her at all. She sets up another date with him, one last time, and she wants him to be on time. She's thinking that maybe they should take some time away from each other for a little while or until he gets a better handle on his life at least. But Barry cancels this because of work, if he doesn't make up for everything by that night/next day he loses his job, he hopes she understands that, because the police depo doesn't want him to lose his job either. This is the night of the accident that gave him superspeed. We are now taken to the same scene we were at at the beginning of the film, only now we care about the man being hit by lightning and know his background and his wants and life.

Anyway, this ^ is just an idea for what they could maybe do with it to get people interested.

In short, begin with the scene of the accident, then after the credits (if they have them) show his life up until that point in a flashback - which we come to find out he's having as he's about to be hit by the lightning. He is narrating ala Forrest Gump, and the whole flahback sequence of his life up until that point should take about 20 minutes of screen time.


Now here's a couple other random ideas I'd like to point out that might work:

Barry is narrating into his own, personal log/journal or recording, which he keeps as he does tests on himself after he gets his super speed, but we don't know that until later in the film when we see it with him for the first time. I always imagined that Barry Allen, a man of science, would probably keep some sort of private record for himself documenting his super speed. He certainly did enough tests on himself in the comics like when he tested himeslf to make sure that he and Iris could have kids. This could also be played up in the sequel, where in the far future Eobard Thawne has this device which is now/or was a relic in a museum dedicated to The Flash. He listens (or watches) Barry recount the accident that gave him super speed and tries to recreate it, and after several tests, he is successful.

The costume ring is something Barry came up with while in college, a sort of unstable material that expands with contact with air, like an inflatable raft. He could probably make a lot of money if he sold this but he doesn't and instead cans the idea because he's just too lazy to market it. Also, the ring, even when he is Flash, has no lightning logo on it like it's depicted in some versions. I always thought that was kinda stupid considering it might give away his identity.

At some point in the film the "Ballad of Barry Allen" by Jim's Big Ego should be played. Barry is the only Flash to have song written about him.

The film is a combination of Iron Man, Back to the Future, and CSI. Iron Man for the superheroics, Back to the Future for the time travel, and CSI for Barry's forensics job.

The Flash needs to do more than just run fast. They need to establish that he has complete control over his molecular structure and can literally do anything fast. Think fast, talk fast, read (and retain what he reads) fast, see fast, he has complete control over his body mass when he runs, etc. He has "speed mode" which he has to kick into when he uses his super speed - this way everything isn't moving super slow to him all the time, only when he wants it to. At first it could be done as a sort of accident.

At first Barry has no intentions of being a superhero. He ends up wearing a suit super hero like stylized suit because (although not complete yet) one, he likes comic books. Always has. Having these powers is so cool to him, of course he's gonna dress up, he's like us - what would you do if you had superpowers? Two, his ordinary clothes, because they're loose fitting, burn and tear when he runs, they aren't exactly protected by the aura around his body that shield him from friction.

One day, Barry ends up stopping one random crime he notices, then another, and all this escalates and one thing needs to another, next thing he knows he's now got a complete costume and is listening to a police scanner and is somewhat of a hometown hero, a celebrity, the city seems to love him. Eventually he ends up giving Iris West the first tv interview with The Flash, but he blurs his face so she can't recognize him.

Also, when Flash speaks, his voice should sound like speed incarnate, sort of electrical and crackley, but we can still understand him, he also talks a little fast. Oh, talking fast - this is a bother to him sometimes, because while he can understand what he's saying, no one else can. He must remember this when he speaks.

The reason for the white circle on his chest is because his life feels complete. Having this speed just "feels right", which will be explained in later films as at the time of his "death" when he runs many hundreds of times faster than the speed of light and turns into a sort of energy when he stops the Anti Monitor, he becomes the lightning bolt/speed that hit himself.

Also, The Flash never walks. He is always seen either running or standing still, never walking. Barry walks, The Flash does not.

There could be a scene in the movie where Barry runs to the track where he'd lose many a race as a child, now as Flash, back in Iowa, and before leaving, he runs the track faster than we can blink and chuckles to himself. If only he knew then what he does now.

Also, at some point in the film, probably one of the first times he turns into The Flash with the suit ejecting from the ring, he puts the suit on but before running off he stops and looks behind him and sees all his civillian clothes on the ground (which he picks up at super-speed).

Still working on the villain, but I want it to be Mirror Master. He can be done scary and can negate the Flash's abilities.

^ These are just some ideas of what they could do with The Flash film. They aren't perfect, and many of them probably need rethinking, but I hope you liked them and would love to hear your thoughts. I know it's a long post and thank anyone who read.

 

[Webhead2006]

very good points/thoughts kevin i would love to see that. What are your thoughts on villain/how to protrayed in the film.

 

[flash13]

You don't know how happy that makes me to see someone else agree that Peter Krause is the PERFECT, PERFECT, PERFECT older Barry Allen.

I like Peter Krause for Barry he has my vote

 

[MadVillainy]

IF Wally is in the Flash movie
who does everyone think should be the villain in the first film
I think that THe Rouges might be too many to inlcude on the first film
and
I was thinking that Zoom should be kept for the 2nd film, since hes so dark

So, ya, If the Flash is Wally who should be the villain

 

[Webhead2006]

I still say if flash is to happen next after green lantern its more then likely its going to be barry, since gl got to start with hal, and barry's return to the living in the comics.

 

[Lane & Kent]

How about Chad mikel Murry as Barry Allen / The Flash?

 

[The Major]

They should have so stuck with Goyer's adaptation. It pi**es me off so bad that they scrapped it. It would've been awesome. Oh, well... we'll get one soon enough. GYLLENHAAL FOR WALLY!

Why isn't his script getting more traction from TDK?

 

[Webhead2006]

WB still as it seems doesnt know what they want to do with the dc stable. But if gl does well for the studio i could really see developing moving way up for flash/ww and some other big but still lesser known guys to maybe get the big screen treatment.