Another update on The Flash
While Justice League isn’t on the studio’s radar right now (here), development on feature adaptation of DC’s properties are underway. The Man of Steel and Batman 3 are moving along, with Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern arriving next summer. Work on a feature adaptation of The Flash is finally moving after years of trying to get it off the ground.
Super Hero Hype sat down with Screenwriter Greg Berlanti, and got an update on the status of that film. “We are working on the treatment for the second film actually, we just started working on that with the same guys who I did the original with. (Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim) ,” he said. A treatment for The Flash has been completed, and the writers are working a script right now. “Those two guys are also writing a script based on a treatment we wrote for ‘The Flash,’ so that’s my involvement with DC right now is the script for ‘The Flash’ and the treatment for ‘GL2′.” Berlanti said.
For the tone of The Flash, Berlanti wants to use Barry Allen’s job as a CSI to give an new take on the character. “Though Barry Allen was a little lighter in the comic, I think because of the nature that he was a CSI and moved in this world of crime before this stuff happened. I think it’s tonally somewhere in between ‘GL’ and ‘Dark Knight.’” he said. Campbell’s Green Lantern will be introducing much of the mythology of that universe, and Berlanit hopes to bring that something to this film.  ”In ‘The Flash,’ there’s the sci-fi component and there’s the crime component and it’s fitting those two things together, and the sci-fi thing, we obviously want to nail that and honor that and do that in a way that feels visceral and real and cool and probably more in the tone of ‘The Matrix” films or things like that,” he said.
With a script in the works, the question of the director is being discussed, but Berlanti isn’t yet committed to that. “When we have the script together, I’ll probably sit down with Warner Bros. and want to decide what’s best for that movie,” he said. Berlanti is busy getting the script right, and hasn’t even thought about a director just yet. “It’s so hard when you’re working on the material, the script too, because if I thought about it just as a director I would freak myself out but when I think about it just as a writer, we try so many different things,” he said. With progress as it is, you could probably expect the film in early 2013.
