If you would ever write up a list of DC Comics movies that got announced that never got made—and we’re talking the new era of DC, not the reams of failed projects before that like Tim Burton’s “Superman”—the list would be incredibly long. It would include a Nightwing movie, a Joker and Harley Quinn team-up picture, a Cyborg film, Booster Gold, and a Deathstroke movie by Gareth Evans, to name just a small few. But one of those old projects, a “Plastic Man,” film is coming back to life, but with a new twist (don’t get bent out of shape about it).
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THR reports that Black List writer Cat Vasko has been hired to work on a feature centered on DC Comics hero Plastic Man. THR says the film is going in a new direction from the one in development just a few years back. Now in its earliest stages of development, this version will become a female-leading vehicle, and that’s unclear if that means a title change or not.
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A “Plastic-Man” film was originally was announced by Warner Bros. and DC Films as little as two years ago. As “Deadpool” was all the rage for 20th Century Fox at the time, WB thought that a comedic Plastic-Man movie could essentially play the same role for them and be a comedy superhero franchise for their movie portfolio. At the time, screenwriter Amanda Idoko had been tapped to write a script for the feature film described as a comedic action-adventure film.
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For those not familiar with Plastic Man, the name is a fairly big giveaway, but the character is best known as being able to bend and stretch his body to unimaginable lengths, fighting crime as anything he can bend his body to become. The character was originally a 1940s Quality Comics character and was absorbed into DC in the ‘50s when the company bought quality.
Vasko is known for adapting “Queen of the Air,” a trapeze artist story that has Margot Robbie attached to star, and she also working with her on a project at “Fierce Kingdom,” on top of an untitled fairy tale project set up at Disney+ with Olivia Cooke and LaKeith Stanfield attached to star. [THR]