5 reasons the DCEU should not make Flashpoint movie

4. Flashpoint has been done

This leads to my next point. The Flashpoint storyline from the comics by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert has been adapted twice already. Once in the direct-to-video animated film, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox and the next adaptation was on the small screen in the third season of The Flash on the CW network.

Both were loose adaptations of that particular arc from the comics. However, the animated feature film was a lot more accurate towards the source material than the CW show as this version wrapped up that part of the plot within two episodes instead of the larger part of the season. Although, the bare elements and plot-points of that story circulated and echoed across the season and became the McGuffin that made an impact towards the last half of the season.

As previously stated in our posts, Daley and Goldstein will direct the film from a screenplay by Joby Harold, who knows his way around action films. Johns, being the co-chairman of DC Films, CCO and the author of that storyline will likely make suggestions to Hamada and give production notes to the filmmaker duo and Harold on where to go, but would that be enough?

Producing a shot–for–shot adaptation of the comic may appease comic fans, but what about casual viewers? In order for this to do great, it must take from the source material. As Robert McKee stated, “The purer the novel, the purer the play, the worse the film.” With comics, although it contains imagery rather than text being the focus, this medium is still literature, though easier to adapt than novel or play, there also needs to be a place for reinvention, so it needs to supersede the comic and not be at the mercy of the source material.