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Is Flash Heading to the CW?

The channel allegedly has big plans for the character.

He may not have his own live-action film coming out in the near future (although, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is out now on blu-ray/DVD), but it looks like Flash could be racing his way towards a lot of appearances over at the CW. According to Deadline, Arrow's co-creators want to give the Justice Leaguer his very own show. But before that, they're allegedly going to introduce Flash in the next season of Arrow.

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Deadline also says Geoff Johns will help write the potential show. Viners, what do you think about the speedster possibly appearing in Arrow and perhaps getting his own series? Could this be DC's way of familiarizing the general audience with more characters before taking a risk and using them on the big screen? There was a rumor that he'd get his own movie in 2016 or past that, after all. Only time will tell, I suppose. But in the meantime, I'm all for this as long as they bring their "A" game.

Source: Deadline

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please be true

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@outlawrenegade: Those production values on HBO and the like are amazing. Imagine if WB actually pumped a bunch of money into their production

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I will give it a watch. The old Flash show in the late 80's was not bad you know Mark Hamel as the Trickster.

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@justthatkid: I think Man of Steel shows that superspeed can work without annoying amounts of bullet time. Not once in the whole movie was Slowmo used.

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@citizenbane said:

Huh. Figured Arrow was a no-powers universe.

May not be anymore since Black Canary will be in season 2.

They could simply remove the Cry. Dinah is a capable martial artist without it, and she didn't have it for years at one point and still fought crime using sonic bombs in place of it.

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@citizenbane said:

Huh. Figured Arrow was a no-powers universe.

Exactly! Letting the Flash appear on Arrow wouldn't make much sense.

I'd also prefer a live action movie. There's a lot of mystery going on around Oliver and his family that makes it a perfect background story for the TV series. I don't see how the Flash could possible work as TV series unless there isn't a greater plot spanning over the entire season but then it would be boring in the first place. Maybe I'm lacking imagination here. A movie would be awesome though!

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Huh. Figured Arrow was a no-powers universe.

May not be anymore since Black Canary will be in season 2.

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Arrow is an awesome show, but it's not where Flash should be put. He needs a big time budget and effects to portray him properly. He should be in a movie.

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I say yes

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Will be easy to do since Smallville used super speed all the time. It's apparently an easy power to do. And Barry's job would lend to a procedural starring someone like Scott Porter. But the speed effects on Smallville were not that great, Barry is bland, and there will be questions about whether or not the Barry on the show will be the one in the movie.

I'm going to reserve judgment but I doubt this will be a show as good as the ones on hbo, fx, or AMC. We are talking about the CW here, guys. On Arrow and Smallville, most of the acting is wooden and the sets look cheap. Damn my high standards!

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so we are gonna get the justice league now like Smallville?

edit: just misread the news

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i will give it a go

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Huh. Figured Arrow was a no-powers universe.

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But is it going to be a clone of "The Blur"?

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THAT would be SO AWESOME!!!