THE FLASH isn't Running Anytime Soon

A film adaptation of The Flash has been in the works at Warner Bros. for some time now, but it never got off the ground. As you may know there was recently a big studio shake up over at Warner Bros. and DC. Today I found out that a major producer who was attached to The Flash film is no longer on the project. The producer is Charles Roven who was also a producer on The Dark Knight. In an interview with IGN Roven said the following:

I was involved at one point with The Flash, and Warner Bros. came to me and said, 'The work that you've been doing hasn't yet resulted in something that any of us, including the filmmaking team, feel could be greenlit as a movie. We're trying to accomplish something that takes into account the entire, rich DC character world, and we'd like to pull it back. That doesn't mean that you aren't going to be a part of it. We just want to take a different kind of approach. Do you mind if we try that?' If we had something that was really working…

Like, for example, they had something that was more or less working for them on Green Lantern, and now you have Martin Campbell directing it…But we didn't. The David Goyer screenplay, that didn't work. Goyer left the project. We then embarked with David Dobkin, trying to come up with another approach. We hadn't even hired a writer at that point. So for us, we completely understood. I've been making movies with Warner Bros. for 15 years, so that was fine, but I hope one day there's a way for me to get re-involved in the project.

One thing that caught my attention in this interview is when he said they wanted to account for the entire DC character world. Does that mean they are looking to go the Marvel route and introduce classic DC characters into their film which would connect the movies? It makes me curious as to what we will see in The Green Lantern.

I know we will eventually see a Flash movie, but it obviously wont happen for another few years. We will be there to watch it when it does get made though!