3) The Flash
A sinewy, red and gold blur who’s been whooshing through the DC comic book world since the first month of 1940, Flash’s famous unfocused figure is finally ready to hit big screens with a bang in 2018. Four separate men have fit themselves into this superhero costume over a seventy year period in comic book history, and it is male #2, Barry Allen, who gets the reputed nod for the highly-anticipated movie adaptation.
For a superhero with lightning-bolt speed, Flash sure has taken a hell of a long time to reach the big screen. Despite having a couple of television shows to his name over the years (one of which titled The Flash is currently broadcasting), his own feature film debut has hit countless roadblocks, with director David S. Goyer dropping out of the project way back in 2004, and a Justice League movie composed by Kieran Mulroney also falling flat a few years later.
A big screen feature finally appears to be in motion, however, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller having been recruited to help develop it. If you’re concerned at the prospect of the directors of 21 Jump Street making a superhero movie, you really needn’t be. Lord and Miller are also the duo who directed the eye-popping animated LEGO Movie, and given LEGO’s warm ties to comic book characters, it’s safe to say that this pair know the DC universe like the back of their hands.
Elsewhere, Ezra Miller is all set to play the light-speed protagonist; a noticeable shift away from his eerie performance in We Need To Talk About Kevin and his easy-going teen character in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It’s an intriguing choice of casting to say the least, and regardless of how it turns out, it’ll be nice to finally see Barry Allen hit the big screen.
