Bringing THE FLASH To The Big Screen

Pretty cool rundown of the three failed Flash movies from over the years.

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David Goyer's 2004 movie.

>Barry Allen is the Flash and married to Iris West and sacrifices himself to save Keystone City from a malfunctioning machine created by the Turtle to steal his speed. Barry's best friend Hunter Zolomon is crippled in the explosion.

>One year later his nephew Wally West is struck by lightning and develops superspeed. Tina McGee from S.T.A.R. Labs figures out Barry passed his powers onto Wally. Iris and Hunter want him to become the new Flash but he's afraid of messing it up and instead only uses his powers for personal gain.

>Evil speedster Zoom breaks the Turtle out of jail and helps him rebuild the speed-stealing machine then kidnaps Iris and Tina to lure Wally into a trap. Zoom turns out to be Hunter, who is addicted to artificial speed provided by the Turtle and butthurt Barry didn't choose him to be the new Flash.

>Wally gets trapped in the Speed Force trying to escape from the machine and finds out Barry is there. He gives Wally what's left of his speed so Wally can escape. Hunter goes crazy and kills Turtle before fighting Wally and dying from stealing more speed from Wally than he can process.

>Wally and Tina get together and Wally vows to rescue Barry from the Speed Force.

Ryan Reynolds was supposed to play either Barry or Wally in the movie, which Goyer was also going to direct.

Chris Brancato's 2007 movie.

>Wally is an edgy teenage punk who hates the Flash and goes to live with Barry and Iris because his parents are abusive. Gets a crush on Barry's lab assistant Linda Park, who is dating douchebag cop Hunter Zolomon. Barry somehow dies in a lab fire, and Wally is drenched in chemicals trying to pull him out.

>Five years later, Wally is a douchebag motocross pilot and heads back to Central City to visit Iris, who is now a senator at odds with corrupt Mayor Vandal Savage, who runs a power plant that's harming the environment. Wally also begins romancing Linda again.

>Iris dies in a random lightning storm similar to the one that caused the lab fire that created Barry. Wally is struck and his latent powers kick in. He finds out Barry was the Flash and deduces that Savage is behind everything.

>Savage is an immortal who wants to use a weather machine created by Mark Mardon to destroy the human race so he can repopulate it with his girlfriend Eve. Zolomon is working for him and killed Barry.

>Wally loses a fight against Savage and ends up accidentally travelling back in time and meeting Barry, who shows him the ropes. Wally then goes back to the future and fights off all of Barry's Rogues whom Savage has broken out of prison. He then destroys the weather machine and defuses the bombs Savage had planted to destroy the city if the weather machine didn't work out.

>Savage, Mardon and Zolomon get arrested. Wally decides to become the Flash full time to honor Barry and Iris.

Shawn Levy and David Dobkin at different points were attached to direct this one. It was also apparently supposed to be in-universe with George Miller's Justice League movie that featured Adam Brody as the Flash. Again unclear whether it was Barry or Wally he was supposed to be playing.

>It was also apparently supposed to be in-universe with George Miller's Justice League movie that featured Adam Brody as the Flash. Again unclear whether it was Barry or Wally he was supposed to be playing.

In Mortal he was meant to be Barry.

Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim's 2011 movie.

>Barry's mother was killed by the Reverse Flash and his father was framed. He was taken in by the Wests and is in love with Iris, who is engaged to a wealthy banker, Nathan.

>Barry is investigating a string of murders in which the victims were chemically frozen from the inside out when he's struck by lightning and develops superspeed. Eobard Thawne, the wheelchair-bound CEO of S.T.A.R. Labs, offers to train him and Barry hooks up with Thawne's assistant Valerie.

>Barry figures out the killer is psychotic hitman Leonard Snart after he kills Barry's mentor, Detective Fred Chyre. Barry finds out that Nathan is the next target and saves him which also exposes his secret to Iris. Nathan confesses he laundered money for all of Snart's victims and didn't tell the police to protect his reputation and Iris dumps him.

>Snart is broken out by Reverse Flash, who beats up Barry. Valerie finds out Thawne is the Reverse Flash and gets killed. Barry and Iris also find out and confront Thawne, who reveals he's Barry's enemy from the future and travelled back in time to kill him as a child but failed and killed his mother instead, accidentally stranding himself in the past.

>Thawne wants to steal Barry's speed to power a particle accelerator that'll destroy the alternative timeline they're in and return to his old future. Barry defeats Thawne and traps him in the Speed Force, and then unravels the singularity created by the particle accelerator and saves the world.

>Barry and Iris get together and Barry becomes the Flash. He's later visited by Green Lantern Hal Jordan wanting to team up.

This one was supposed to be in the same continuity as the Green Lantern movie, back when DC thought it was their answer to Iron Man and a modern-day Star Wars. Berlanti was apparently gonna direct it after WB ditched him from the GL movie. Chris Pine and Bradley Cooper - two actors who missed out on the GL role - were heavily rumored for this.

I want a good Flash movie, just not a DCEU Flash movie. I don't like the track record, the universe its shackled to which will hinder creative freedom, and frankly Im not sold on Erza either.

DC should have just made the CW shows part of the DCCU.

As ya'll can see when Berlanti got a gig producing DC shows for the CW he repurposed his pitch into season 1 of the Flash TV show, broadening the scope and ditching the overtly edgy Warner-mandated elements like the Buffalo Bill-meets-the-Joker version of Cold.

Shut the fuck up, they're shit too

Eh, I don't mind it being a DCEU movie.
For all the problems with Suicide Squad, at least Flash and Captain Boomerang felt okay existing together.

>Wally is an edgy teenage punk who hates the Flash and goes to live with Barry and Iris because his parents are abusive. Gets a crush on Barry's lab assistant Linda Park, who is dating douchebag cop Hunter Zolomon. Barry somehow dies in a lab fire, and Wally is drenched in chemicals trying to pull him out.

Jesus christ what a mess.

Which is why it started to get plot hiccups after season 1.

This is a bad idea.

I don't see anything wrong except the Hunter Zolomon part, and the fact that Barry died in a completely different way in JL: Mortal.

>plot hiccups
And during the dumpster fire of the finale.

Because one of the main characteristics about Wally as a kid is that he's obsessed with the Flash, he doesn't hate him.

Let's not start this bullshit again here.

Makes the timeskip and the whole "live up to the legacy" angle pop more.

Especially in light that Wally was the last one to speak to Barry before he CRISIS'd himself during Mortal.

Thanks for making me sad knowing Sally will never get a movie now, especially since that premise sounded cool.

>family genuinely loves the flash tv show
>get excited for the justice league movie
>had to break it to them that they aren't using the berry Allen from the TV show because he's not "dark enough" for sydner's new universe

They don't even want to see the movie anymore.

>had to break it to them that they aren't using the berry Allen from the TV show because he's not "dark enough" for sydner's new universe

Really? I thought all of the murders he's committed and the whole "pretending to be brain damaged to get an apology out of Eddie" thing was dark enough.

Snyder please. Don't get mad because others do DC live action better than you.

Stale bait.

You can hate both you know

>and frankly Im not sold on Erza either.
None of us are, everyone's waiting for JL to come out

It's not so much "it needs to be serious" but instead "edgy and only using a certain color pallet"

Wally being an edgy punk who hates The Flash is the exact reason Black Wally is garbage.

Yes, Ezra is completely edgy.

both are fucking terrible

Ezra's a decent actor, my problem is his eyes, they are way too dark, they need to give him some lighter contacts or do some editing, cause every scene I've seen him in those things look pitch black.

It's fine for stuff like We need to talk about Kevin, or Fantastic beasts where he's a fucking nutball, but he's supposed to be a hero here and they just make him look soulless.

can the flash in that movie do this without fucking up everything

Black Wally doesn't hate Barry. Maybe actually watch/read the content and let go of your bias.

>Five years later, Wally is a douchebag motocross pilot
Yep, that's 2007 alright

Why do they get themselves into such complicated plots for The Flash? Just make a movie about him learning to deal with speed and having to fight some of the Rogues. Leave time travel, Reverse Flash and all that bullshit for a potential shark-jumping sequel.