The Flash - Season 5: After being struck by lightning, Barry Allen wakes up from his coma to discover he's been given the power of super speed, becoming the Flash, fighting crime in Central City. The Flash movie has directors, a cast, and now all it needs is a release date. News Mike Cecchini. Jul 16, 2018. The full schedule of DC superhero movies can be found here.
In October 2015, it was announced that Seth Grahame-Smith (writer of the hit novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) would make his directorial debut on the DCEU movie, but he dropped out in April 2016 over the proverbial 'creative differences'. Dope director Rick Famuyiwa replaced him in June, but was. Creative differences struck again, it seemed. Official channels went dead for a long while, during which time there were rumours that Back to the Future's Robert Zemeckis was the favourite to take over the film – which sounded a bit optimistic, if you asked us.
After the film was allegedly offered to Ben Affleck (presumably after Zemeckis said 'no way'), in January 2018 writers were reported as the latest directors (although it took until March for that to be ). Is the third time the charm? Or does this movie only traffic in the negative proverbs?