So that “Flash” adaptation starring Ezra Miller has false-started a few times. First Rick Famuyiwa (“Dope”) was supposed to direct the film and before that Phil Lord and Chris Miller were developing the property (and there’s rumors that they could come back now). Now, today at San Diego Comic Con announced by DC Films chief Geoff Johns with the cast of “Justice League”— Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller and Ray Fisher looking on— comes the news: “The Flash” movie is finally coming and it’s now called “The Flash: Flashpoint” an adaptation of a 2011 comic book storyline that features an alternate universe for the character Barry Allen.
Here’s an official synopsis from the comics.
“Flashpoint details an altered DC Universe in which only Barry Allen seems to be aware of significant differences between the regular timeline and the altered one, including Cyborg’s place as the world’s quintessential hero much like how Superman is in the main timeline, with Superman himself being held captive as a lab-rat by the United States government within an underground facility in Metropolis. In addition, a Thomas Wayne version of Batman, whose son Bruce Wayne is dead instead of him and his wife Martha (who becomes The Joker), spends his days “running Wayne Casinos” in order to help fund his vigilante activity.”
Want to speculate? In an alternative universe — a very DC Comics thing to do– if there’s another Batman, well, wouldn’t that be a way to phase in a new Batman if Ben Affleck is eventually on his way out? It’s craven, but maybe it’s a good solution. It’s interesting how Cyborg is mentioned as its been previously rumored the character played by Ray Fisher could play a substantive role in a DCEU film. But it sounds as if Geoff Johns and DC Films are starting fresh. That could mean any version by Lord and Miller or script by Famuyiwa could be tossed out the window if, presumably anyhow, the Flashpoint storyline wasn’t part of the original Flash iterations. Either way, there’s few details beyond that. ‘Flashpoint’ has no director, no script that we know of and no release date.