The Flash Snags a Director, Too!

First Green Lantern, now The Flash.

MTV reports that Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin is going to be helming a live-action Flash movie, chronicling the adventures of the World’s Fastest Man, spinning off from the upcoming Justice League movie still in production.

It’s interesting to see a comedy director getting this job, because the Flash should be a funny guy, as anyone who watched the Justice League animated series would tell you. Just like Green Lantern, however, there are a bunch of different potential Flashes, and it’ll be interesting to see how they’re worked in, if at all. The DC Comics universe tends to have a lot of different people trading the same superhero identity back and forth.

Wally West - He’s the guy Dobkin has chosen, which makes sense, because he’s the charismatic, happy-go-lucky guy in a town full of brightly-colored bad guys like Captain Cold and the Weather Wizard, which stands in stark contrast to the more publicized dark and crazy villains in Batman’s Gotham City. He’s a grease-monkey by trade and he was once the president of the Flash Fan Club before he got the powers himself. Ryan Reynolds has occasionally been mentioned to star in this flick, and this is the guy he’d be perfect for.

Barry Allen - He was the reason there was a Flash fan club, as he was Wally’s uncle and hero before his untimely death saving the universe from some kind of destruction or other. He was a forensic scientist who doubled as the Scarlet Speedster, but it’s likely he’ll either be a father figure or maybe a guy who hands the mantle to Wally at the beginning of the movie.

Bart Allen - He’s an extremely hyperactive youngster, and he might make an appearance if they want to skew it younger. He’s got the speed powers as well as being a bit obnoxious, so that could be played up for yuks - he might show up as Impulse and be an incredible annoyance only to grow up through the course of the film and become Wally’s sidekick Kid Flash, although that would be better saved for a sequel.

Jay Garrick - at most, he’ll make a cameo, as he is the Flash from the World War II era, and he wore a big winged colander on his head. For some reason.