I think there's hardly a superhero who's more fitted for a TV show than the Flash. I mean, his powers are managable on TV budgets, there's an endless supply of villains (and they keep coming back and forming alliances, which would really work for story arcs) and he's simply a likable character with a costume that can work in live action. Plus, if it's Barry Allen, they could really use the whole forensic crime investigation, I hear forensic crime fighters are hip these days.
Wally West or we start killing hostages.
I love Wally, but he's no good for introducing the Flash to a new audience, because his origin doesn't work without Barry.
The only way Wally could work as the star of a Flash show would be if they'd make it a spin-off of the John Wesley Shipp show, with a sort of history ready for what happened in-between the two shows.
See, people said that about Green Lantern too, I just don't think it necessarily holds up. I always bang on about the example of Star Wars, but I think it's a really good example, and certainly a very successful example, of starting with an established backstory that's only gradually revealed (or gradually invented
) throughout the original trilogy. But people certainly had no difficulty grasping the concept of Jedis prior to Luke--indeed, of an entire destroyed social order that we never saw until years later, and then, much like Barry Allen, wished we hadn't.
So I don't think it would be too much to ask an audience to understand the bare-boned fact that there was another Flash who died.
Now the circumstances of Barry Allen's death would have to be changed, unless you wanted to drag Crisis into it, which you absolutely don't. Just have Thawne kill him. That's easy.
Heck, if you wanted to get a bit more complex, could do a whole time travel thing where Thawne made it so Barry never existed and Wally (who could exist independently) was the recipient of the first bolt of magical super-speed lightning. I dunno, it might not work, but I'm just brainstorming here.
CorporalCaptain said:
^ No problem. I'd love to see a Dark Knight Returns mini-series though as well, although I think it would probably be somewhat expensive to do, along the budget of a Frank Herbert's Dune mini-series budget which I think was the most expensive mini-series SyFy ever produced (until they did the follow up).
Personally, I'd like to see this as a feature film. Batman in the future as seen from the past where the Cold War is still happening for some reason! Director? Who else but Zack Snyder?
