5 reasons the DCEU should not make Flashpoint movie

A Flashpoint movie is in the works, but it does not mean it’s a good idea for the DCEU.

Development of a live-action feature-length version of ‘The Flash’ has been around for decades. At one point, David S. Goyer was meant to write, produce and direct the project back in 2004 after Warner Bros. was impressed with his script for Batman Begins before the (DCEU) DC Extended Universe went into effect.

At the time, the studio that was behind the DECU had placed The Flash as the sixth installment of that franchise set for 2018, Ezra Miller had been cast, filmmaker duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had written a story treatment and Seth Grahame-Smith was signed on to make his directorial debut of the film. The writer/producer dropped out in April 2016 and since then search for a director to be locked in remained a challenge, with Rick Famuyiwa, who left much like the previous one before him for “creative differences”.

Since last year, a number of changes had taken place. Variety reported that ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ scribe, Joby Harold, will do a ‘page-one rewrite’, meaning every revised draft of the film’s script has been discontinued and all of the bare elements of the story is starting from scratch. Therefore, studio executives pretend the drafts beforehand now known, as ‘Flashpoint’ doesn’t exist. Directors of the movie were shortlisted: Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Vaughn, Sam Raimi and Marc Webb.

The latter two had dropped out from the running and most recently, a report we have covered named another filmmaker duo and Spider-Man: Homecoming co-writers, Josh Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are the latest talents to helm Flashpoint. The source came from Jeff Sneider of Tracking-Board, who also highlighted their strengths in comedy and their credentials with the films Vacation and Game Night for New Line Cinema where recent President of DC Films, Walter Hamada, was a production executive.

For this list-based column, I will state five reasons why DC Films should not adapt the storyline from The Flash comics. On this site, we already have noted the challenges Daley and Goldstein will face adapting Flashpoint to the silver screen.

Although it might be necessary to do so, this might not be the best course of action right now for the DCEU. Now, I am not saying not to do The Flash movie, any solo film with Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen/Flash would be interesting to watch at this point of the DC franchise, just not the 2011 storyline.