The Official Flash Thread

[Octoberist]

I'm not trying to rib on the character or you, but yeah, only a handful of people would like to see a Jay Garrick movie. let's be honest here.

 

[Fresh Prince]

Barry Allen Flash films FTW!

 

[Timstuff]

Wally West Flash films FTW more.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Barry.

 

[Timstuff]

Where's Barry?

 

[ChickenScratch]

I guess those who understand Barry's power will always have a bit of a chuckle at the Wally fans.

Wally never totally understood the speed force, Barry did. What was a mystery to Wally was common place for Barry. Hell, Wally could never pass through a solid without it blowing up, while Barry was like a red ninja.

 

[Young Superman]

It's gonna be Barry in the film DC woudn't use Wally in a film when they just brought Barry back from the dead.

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea you would figure, and i been saying it myself too. With the push of returning barry to the land of the living in the comic world. That they would want to push barry for first flash film. Plus i agree it would be easier to start with barry. Then having to retool things around to make wally the first flash. But yea should def have wally be there in some form in the film.

 

[Timstuff]

I don't doubt that the movie will be about Barry. The thing that boils my noodle is that some people seem to have this attitude of "As soon as they make a movie with Barry, it's going to be Barry's forever!" or "they'll do a trilogy or so with Barry and then maybe a movie with Wally sometime in the next 20 years." I've heard their arguments for why, but I'd like to think that Warner Bros. would be more respectful of all Flash fans when they plan out these movies, and not cater exclusively to one faction of them. A movie about Barry with Wally as a prominent supporting character would IMO be a good way to set up a franchise that will eventually transition from one character to another, especially if the audience likes Wally before he becomes the Flash.

 

[Webhead2006]

totally timstuff, there is many ways to work both barry and wally into meaningful roles in a film series.

 

[flash13]

Yeah we all want either Wally or Barry for a movie, but a Jay Garrick film would totally get my 7 bucks Though I know it'll never happen, but he might at least get a reference in a Barry film, if he didn't that would be as bad as making a Wally film that didn't acknowledge Barry.

 

[Drakon]

The funny thing is, that at the end of the day, they could give the movie to somebody new entirely, and we'd still go watch it.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea this is something i been saying for awhile that is tough for characters like the flash, or a green lantern where multi men/women have don the mantle of the character. Which one has the rights to be done first and which one doesnt get to be first. Its alot easier when you got guys like spider-man/batman/superman were for pretty much its majority its history has been one person as said thing.

 

[The Batman]

I don't doubt that the movie will be about Barry. The thing that boils my noodle is that some people seem to have this attitude of "As soon as they make a movie with Barry, it's going to be Barry's forever!" or "they'll do a trilogy or so with Barry and then maybe a movie with Wally sometime in the next 20 years." I've heard their arguments for why, but I'd like to think that Warner Bros. would be more respectful of all Flash fans when they plan out these movies, and not cater exclusively to one faction of them. A movie about Barry with Wally as a prominent supporting character would IMO be a good way to set up a franchise that will eventually transition from one character to another, especially if the audience likes Wally before he becomes the Flash.

No offense, but this seems more like wishful thinking. Will Wally be a character? Yup...will he have an active flash franchise of his own? I very much doubt it.....Wally becoming Flash would most likely signal the end of a trilogy.

 

[solidsnake86]

I don't doubt that the movie will be about Barry. The thing that boils my noodle is that some people seem to have this attitude of "As soon as they make a movie with Barry, it's going to be Barry's forever!" or "they'll do a trilogy or so with Barry and then maybe a movie with Wally sometime in the next 20 years." I've heard their arguments for why, but I'd like to think that Warner Bros. would be more respectful of all Flash fans when they plan out these movies, and not cater exclusively to one faction of them. A movie about Barry with Wally as a prominent supporting character would IMO be a good way to set up a franchise that will eventually transition from one character to another, especially if the audience likes Wally before he becomes the Flash.

Your assuming the WB cares about the fans and frankly Wally fans. I think we'll see Wally because of Geoff Johns but thats it. Also, I think the most telling reason why people are saying its going to be barry is that they basically went ahead and brought him back in the comics, his death was one of the untouchable ones, they still did it.

How many flash fans are there to care about, his book was cancelled, obviously because of quality but you make it sound as if there are a million of them. On a good day you'd be lucky to have about 85,000 people buy a flash comic book. Even if they were all Wally fans thats not enough to make the movie.

 

[Kevin Smith]

I guess those who understand Barry's power will always have a bit of a chuckle at the Wally fans.

Wally never totally understood the speed force, Barry did. What was a mystery to Wally was common place for Barry. Hell, Wally could never pass through a solid without it blowing up, while Barry was like a red ninja.

Yup. not only that, but Barry pioneered all the Flash stuff, he didn't have a mentor or someone to "train him", he made it up/discovered it as he went along, Wally on the other hand had not only Barry but Jay and Max and he still didn't come close to accomplishing half of what Barry did as Flash.

 

[Kevin Smith]

The funny thing is, that at the end of the day, they could give the movie to somebody new entirely, and we'd still go watch it.

lol yes I know. I would pay good money for any Flash film lol that is so sad. And like I said I don't care who is in the suit I will still be there opening night. (altho I would prefer it to be Barry, if not then Wally, and of course I would watch a Jay and/or Bart film. Hell, I'd watch a Max film).

 

[flash13]

I would say Wally is Plato to Barry's Socrates.

 

[Webhead2006]

well to be honest we have no clue how things would go with a flash film series if it does get off the ground. Sure more likely and it probably will be barry for first film. And i am sure wally will be a minor/supporting player in the first film. But who knows what could happen if its a sucessful film and what happens in a sequel. There is much we dont know plus we dont have any official direction going on a film yet.

 

[Micromind]

Some Casting suggestions -

Matthew Bomer as Jay Garrick.

 

[MadVillainy]

I guess those who understand Barry's power will always have a bit of a chuckle at the Wally fans.

Wally never totally understood the speed force, Barry did. What was a mystery to Wally was common place for Barry. Hell, Wally could never pass through a solid without it blowing up, while Barry was like a red ninja.

Wait, wasnt the speed force not even really named during Barry's run. If I'm correct so how did he understand it more if he didnt even know what it was

And ya Barry could phase through walls, Wally had Infinite Mass Punch, He could steal speed or lend speed, he can make solids out of the speed force

and then Bart could remember everything from when he was speed reading and make duplicates of himself

The debate on whos faster can go either way, but in terms of mastering th speed force Wally and Bart are better at it. In a year or a couple Barry will probably be the best

 

[Timstuff]

In terms of casting I think that Barry should be somewhere close to 30's, and the actor for Wally should be roughly in his late teens or 20's or so. I've always considered Wally to be the "Peter Parker" of the DC universe, so if they ever do a JL movie and Wally is the Flash in it, he should be the youngest member. In the first Flash movie, Wally could be in high school while Barry is established as being a forensic scientist, and then maybe in the sequel Wally is starting up college. How old they decide to make Wally though, will likely give us some kind of hints as to what role he'd play in a potential trilogy. If they make him just a kid then we can probably forget about seeing him put on the Flash costume, but if he's older then it might be because they are setting up for him to become the Flash later on.

Someone about a page back said something to the effect of "Why would Warner Bros. care about what the Wally fans want in regards to the Flash movie, when the Flash comics rarely even sell 100,000 copies?" Well, if that's the logic, then I don't see why Warner Bros. would care about pleasing any Flash fans. Wally still makes up at least as much of the Flash fandom as Barry does, and if Warner Bros. doesn't care about keeping Wally fans happy then why should they care about the little fanbase that Barry has? They might as well just make up a new character who's a hybrid of both or something like that if they don't even care about the last 20 years of the comic's story.

 

[Webhead2006]

i asked this before, how much of an age difference is there between barry and wally when barry first met wally?

 

[flash13]

I'd say Barry was in his late twenties or early thirties and I'd say Wally was about 12.

 

[Octoberist]

who thinks here that THe Flash will be the tentpole for 2013? Raise your hands!