The Official Flash Thread

[MadVillainy]

IF Zoom and the rougues aren't going to be the villains in a Wally Wst flash movie who should be the main villain?

 

[Kevin Smith]

This would make another great poster for the BARRY ALLEN FLASH MOVIE!

 

[MadVillainy]

really really cool pic but i wouldnt want it as a Flash poster

 

[Webhead2006]

yea cool image.

 

[Lane & Kent]

That's awesome Kevin.

 

[drwcomics]

IF Zoom and the rougues aren't going to be the villains in a Wally Wst flash movie who should be the main villain?

Savitar, perhaps? They could even use him to introduce the concept of the "speed force".

 

[protocida]

Wally could face the new Rogues (Blacksmith, Magenta, Tell, Murmur and etc.)

 

[MadVillainy]

A little something I threw together. If I were writing the Flash movie this would be the opening scene/5-10 mins
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INT. Dark Room of the Garrick estate. Wall colored brown with limited light exposure. A clock ticks in the background
Bird's-Eye view of Wally West. Camera pans down to a medium shot. Wally is in his late 20s/early 30s with slightly messy red hair has a very stern face on.

Wally is holding om a red article of clothing tightly as if it is the most important thing in the world. Wally stares intensely with his deep green eyes at the red clothing for at least 10 seconds before stuffing it in a backpack and walking out of the room.

INT. Kitchen of the Garrick estate.

Walls colored white, while natural sunlight pours into the room. Jay Garrick a late 50s/early 60s man is sitting and reads a newspaper, while his wife Joan Garrick, late 50s/early 60s Joan Garrick, stands over a stove cooking breakfast. They both turn as Wally walks into the room.

Jay Garrick
Hey kid, whaaaats happening?

Joan Garrick
Hello Wally, would you like some eggs and sausage, I made it just like you like em
​

Wally West
(smiling)
Yeah, that would be great
​

Wally moves to sit down next to Jay at the table. Jay fold up his paper and leans in closer to Wally.

Jay Garrick
(a little quietly)
Did you get what you needed from your uncles old guest room?
​

Wally West
Ya, it was all there. Packaged and clean like it was taken care of by one of the guys from Queer Eye from the Straight Guy
​

Jay looks a Wally seriously but still kindly

Jay Garrick
Come on, kid I'm serious

Wally West
I'm serious too...can't I just be hilarious while I continue to be (air quotes) "serious"
​

Joan walks up and hands Wally a plate, piled on with a huge amount of food

Joan Garrick
Here you go

Wally West
Thanks
​

Joan briefly closes her eyes to scratch them. When she opens them, all the food is already gone. Joan is not surprised in the slightest

Joan Garrick
I hope that holds you over Wally at least for the next (looks at her watch) 5 minutes.
(looking at Jay)
Jay did you remember to take out the garbage? I don't want to have to haul it out myself.
​

Jay looks next to him in the next hallway and sees that the trash is bagged, but not yet taken out to the curb

Jay Garrick
Ya, it only took me like 5 seconds. You know I always remember.
​

Jay kisses Joan on the cheek, she turns around, and Jay signals Wally to distract her

Wally West
(Improvising)
So, um, Grandma Joan..what exactly did you put in the eggs

Joan Garrick
The same things as always Wally, its no secret and you know Wally I wish you wouldn't call me grandma, I'm not that old yet-
​

While Joan is going on a small but friendly and joking rant, Jay runs at lightning speed to the hallway, grabs the bag of trash and runs out to the curb, and runs back in ide in less than 10 seconds and before Joan even stops talking.

Joan Garrick
and besides I am not even your real grandmother. (Without turning out) And Jay next time just remember to take out the garbage the night before.
​

Joan wipes off her hands, turns around smiles and walks into the next room. Jay slightly embarrassed turns once again to Wally

Jay Garrick

Have you spoken to your aunt lately
​

Wally West
Last week I did, I heading over there right now, I just thought that I would stop here say hello and pick up...the thing
​

Wally stands up and walks over to the door. Jay stands up and follows him

INT. Hallway of the Garrick estate.

Jay Garrick
All jokes aside Wally, you know what you have to do. There are museums, statues, t shirts, Happy meals all dedicated to him. There is a time for jokes and then there are times for proper action. I want you to remember that always. What ever you do reflects onto him, his image, and his name.

Wally West
(smile fading into a more serious expression)
I understand. I'll see you later. Say bye to grandma Joan for me.
​

EXT. A suburb, the sky is blue and the sun shines bright

Wally walks out the house. He looks around to see if anybody is watching and then speeds off to another location

EXT. Another suburb. Same weather. Slightly smaller house

Five seconds later Wally arrives at another house. A woman is outside gardening. The woman turns around; Iris West mid 40s, reddish brown hair smiles at Wally.

 

[protocida]

Nice.

 

[MadVillainy]

thanks

 

[Changeling]

IF Zoom and the rougues aren't going to be the villains in a Wally Wst flash movie who should be the main villain?

Grodd.
This is how it should go:

1: Rogues like Captain Cold, Mirror Master, and Captain Boomerang
2: Grodd
3: Zoom

 

[protocida]

Grodd? I don't really see it. He's classic, but a megalomanic talking gorilla might be too much for the general audience.

 

[ironman29758]

Nice.

It was great. I said I would choose Barry and taking influence from Kevin Smith's movie poster idea here

or this one

If I did the movie. The setting is Keystone and Central City which is the fastest city alive and has the 2nd worst crime rate behind Gotham City(use Los Angeles, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas). It would be all about Barry being the Flash with Wally West, and Jay Garrick cameos. Barry Allen is in his early-mid 20s and is a police scientist. The movie is like a combination of X-Files, CSI, Mission Impossible, Batman Begins/ The Dark Knight and Iron Man and we would use Barry and possibly Jay and mabye Wally's speed powers as the main source of humor not that we won't hear jokes being cracked by Wally, Jay and Barry. The villian would be Turtle/turtle man (first Barry Allen supervillian) or Captian Cold. The whole movie would be influenced by The Flash rebirth, Flash: Fastest Man Alive, Teen Ttans Kid Flash appearances, DC:The New Frontier, The Flash live action tv series and some of the Silver Age and Golden Age Flash comics and Flash appearences on Smallville, Superman The animated series, Justice League/Justice League Unlimited. It would show Flash's origin(chemical/lightning accident in a more modern/beleviable way). Then we see his on and off relationship with Iris West and cameos of heroes like Hal Jordon/Green Lantern, Wayne Enterprise or Gotham City,John Johns detectice/ Martian Manhunter and the big man Supes. He devolpes his powers like vibrating through walls. The soundtrack will features songs like "The Ballad of Barry Allen by Jim's Big Ego and we see cameo of people who played the Flash before like John Wesley Snipps, Micheal Rosenbaum, Kyle Gallner, etc... what do you think.

 

[ChickenScratch]

I would do it like the opening of comic. You know where it's usually an inner dialogue with the Flash talking about who he is and where he is in his life or the current story and of course end with the classic "I'm Barry Allen and I'm The Flash." The whole catching you up section should be him recounting how he becoming Flash with clips interspersed with him speeding around saving people and the credits all at the same time. Boom, less than a min and you have covered origin, you've seen what he can do and it establishes the city (there's gotta be a 'Central City home of The Flash' in there).

 

[MadVillainy]

Grodd? I don't really see it. He's classic, but a megalomanic talking gorilla might be too much for the general audience.

Ya thats what I was thinking. And not just for the general audience but for me lol. hes one of those things that would be cool in cartoon, writing, or comics but not in a live action movie

 

[ironman29758]

I would do it like the opening of comic. You know where it's usually an inner dialogue with the Flash talking about who he is and where he is in his life or the current story and of course end with the classic "I'm Barry Allen and I'm The Flash." The whole catching you up section should be him recounting how he becoming Flash with clips interspersed with him speeding around saving people and the credits all at the same time. Boom, less than a min and you have covered origin, you've seen what he can do and it establishes the city (there's gotta be a 'Central City home of The Flash' in there).

Oh you mean like "I'm Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive."
oh yeah hear's a site if you want to learn about Barry.

http://absorbascon.blogspot.com/2009/04/flash-back.html

 

[Octoberist]

"I'm Barry Allen and I'm the fast man alive. I'll catch you all up to SPEED"

 

[ChickenScratch]

Kinda like that, but when he says "I'm Barry Allen and I'm the Fastest man Alive" that's when the title rolls across the screen. What I'm describing here are clips of the origin, him saving people all over Central City and the credits all at the same time.

A bolt of lightning hits the shelf,
A construction worker falls, a bolt of light passes him, he's back on the scaffold,
The light forms out the name of the first actor
Then it's back to the lightning passing thu the chmicals into his body
Then it's a little girl about to get hit by a truck
She's suddenly back on the sidewalk and a gust of wind makes the leaves on the sidewalk spell out the second star's name
Back to Barry in the lab on the floor

Sort of like that, all 3 at the same time going along with Barry talking and when he introduces himself as the Flash that's the first full view of him we get.

 

[Octoberist]

Oh you mean like "I'm Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive."
oh yeah hear's a site if you want to learn about Barry.

http://absorbascon.blogspot.com/2009/04/flash-back.html

After reading that, boy, Barry is the opposite of the witty Wally.

 

[protocida]

We should write the "Barry Allen facts". t:

 

[ironman29758]

We should write the "Barry Allen facts". t:

I'd like for him to talk about Flash Facts in the movie(first write it down and then do a V.O.) how would want to him use his superspeed. I would pefer him to be a red and gold blur which hints of an afterimage and lighting around.
Barry Allen facts would be interesting to show how Barry Allen should act based on your knowledge(read in comics from silver age-elseworlds-what people thought about him to post final crisis/Flash rebirth, watch on tv shows, etc...)

 

[Kevin Smith]

After reading that, boy, Barry is the opposite of the witty Wally.

LOL. Wel, I think that article may be slightly off base. As the author said, it was written to show that Barry wasn't quite the cardboard cut out Waid and others have shown him to be, that he wasn't "perfect" either, and that he had a low tolerance for supervillainy.

I think while that is true, Barry was also humorous and optimistic. He wasn't a walking joke like Bart or the JLU Flash and didn't have the snarky Anakin Skywalker humor that Wally had, but he had a good sense of humor. Biggest difference between Barry and the other Flashes is that he's much more intelligent than any of them. Read New Frontier. That's how Barry should be displayed and is the truest to the spirit of Barry Allen. I think we'll see more of the optimistic and humorous Barry Allen in Rebirth and Flash once he gets his feet back on the ground. Rebirth is just beginning, give it some time.

 

[Kevin Smith]

And a special thanks to everyone who read and commented on my Flash Move ideas post.

Thank you! It's great to know I'm not shooting ideas into a black hole.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Kinda like that, but when he says "I'm Barry Allen and I'm the Fastest man Alive" that's when the title rolls across the screen. What I'm describing here are clips of the origin, him saving people all over Central City and the credits all at the same time.

A bolt of lightning hits the shelf,
A construction worker falls, a bolt of light passes him, he's back on the scaffold,
The light forms out the name of the first actor
Then it's back to the lightning passing thu the chmicals into his body
Then it's a little girl about to get hit by a truck
She's suddenly back on the sidewalk and a gust of wind makes the leaves on the sidewalk spell out the second star's name
Back to Barry in the lab on the floor

Sort of like that, all 3 at the same time going along with Barry talking and when he introduces himself as the Flash that's the first full view of him we get.

Cool. I'd have him say "My name is Barry Allen...I'm the fastest man alive!". That little mantra was used in the Barry stories waaaaaaaay before Mark Waid brought it back for the Wally stories in the nineties.

 

[The Guard]

The Flash intro, by way of the X-Men credits sequences.

LIGHTNING FLARES across the screen. Again. And SUDDENLY, we find ourselves SUCKED INSIDE one of the lightning bolts, and RACING through a brilliant void of PURE ENERGY. So this is what it's like to ride the lightning. We SPEED onward through the void.

MALE VOICE (V.O.)
There are those who ride the lightning...the speedsters, gifted individuals throughout time, a chain of neverending motion. Their legacy, one of speed and vigilance.

GHOSTLY FORMS coalesce in the void; former SPEEDSTERS. A blonde woman. A Native American. A cowboy. Persons from the past and the future. Dozens of cultures represented. Each MERGES back into the lightning storm as a new forms. Spectral forms of powerful energies.

(V.O.)
They live in the moments between each second. And for these speedsters, time itself...is relative. Every moment...an eternity.

We are moving faster now through the void, if that's even possible. And then, even FASTER. ENERGY BLURS around us as the end of the void swirls into a VORTEX, a tornado of electrical impulses and lightning. There's chaos here, but also a strange calm, like the center of a hurricane.

SUPER TITLE: THE FLASH

Lord I want a Flash movie like no other...