Phil Lord Discusses THE FLASH and Animated SPIDER-MAN Movie
Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The LEGO Movie) are taking on a couple big projects that fans will be anxious to see. The are currently developing the big screen live action adaptation of The Flash starring Ezra Miller for Warner Bros., as well as the animated feature film version of Spider-Man.
Not much has been revealed about these projects since they jumped on board, but while appearing as a guest on the Hippojuice podcast, Lord gave an update on the movies. Talking about The Flash he confirmed that they will be going with the Barry Allen version of the superhero.
“We’re trying to break a story. It’s interesting, because there’s a really popular TV show out there, and we’re trying to carve out space for the movie that’s apart from that. I think we’re doing alright. … I believe [our Flash] is going to be Barry Allen. … It’s going to be it’s own [thing, apart from the TV show] — we’re more trying to stick with the cinematic universe… it really is its own thing, and kind of a stand-alone movie. We’re just trying to think of the best story. I think you guys will like it, it’s kind of a different take on superhero stuff.”
They must have some kind of solid idea for the story. They’re at least far enough along in development to think that we’ll like what they’re doing. I love the seriew The Flash, and it's going to be hard to compete with that. As much as they try to separate the two, there’s no doubt that fans are going to end up comparing them. Hopefully the deliver something great. I wouldn’t expect anything less from these guys.
As far as the animated Spider-Man movie goes, Lord said,
“We’re sort of juggling superheroes with the color red in them, that’s all we do. [laughter] We’re trying not to confuse their powers or anything, but it does get tricky. But it’s the same thing, is there a way to do one of these movies in a new way? That’s the exciting thing about it being animated, is it opens up a lot of different possibilities.
“Chris and I like to carve out spaces where people will let us do what we want. So much of our careers are like ‘oh, no one will bother us while we try to make a 21 Jump Street movie, because it’s such a crazy idea, no one’s going to know what to do with it.’ So we’re doing these things kind of like that. They’re part of these huge franchises, but kind of are off a little bit to the side, and that gives us a lot of creative freedom, and that’s the thing we love. Hopefully we won’t waste that!”
So both of these projects are going to be their own thing, and basically stand on their own, which is fine. I think they’ll both end up being better films for it.
I’ve embedded the podcast below so you can listen to it. Lord also briefly talks about some of the other projects they are working on.