David S. Goyer’s THE FLASH (2005)>Barry Allen sacrifices himself to save Keystone City and passes his powers onto his nephew Wally West (Ryan Reynolds).>Wally is initially reluctant to follow in on his uncle’s footsteps, and develops a romance with journalist Linda Park (Grace Park).>Wally becomes the Flash to fight Barry’s old enemy Captain Cold (Robert Patrick), who returns to action due to Barry’s death.>Wally also fights evil speedster Zoom, who reveals himself as Barry’s protégé and Wally’s best friend Hunter Zolomon (Bradley Cooper), embittered about being crippled in the explosion that killed Barry, and that Barry chose Wally as his successor over him.>Wally manages to defeat Zoom and Captain Cold, proving himself a hero, and discovers that Barry is not dead, but lost in the Speed Force, vowing to rescue him
Greg Berlanti’s THE FLASH (2012)>Forensic investigator Barry Allen (Chris Pine) gains superspeed after being struck by lightning during the explosion of S.T.A.R. Labs’ particle accelerator and learns how to control his powers with the help of S.T.A.R. Labs’ CEO, Dr. Harrison Wells.>Barry is in love with his childhood friend, journalist Iris West (Rachel McAdams), whose family adopted Barry after Barry’s father was wrongfully convicted for the murder of his mother.>Barry adopts the identity of the Flash to fight Leonard Snart, a mercenary armed with a cold gun capable of slowing him down who is eliminating S.T.A.R. Labs scientists on behalf of a mysterious employer.>The employer reveals himself as Wells, who is in fact Eobard Thawne, Barry’s nemesis from the future who travelled back in time and killed Barry’s mother, but became stranded in the past, forcing him to engineer Barry’s transformation into the Flash in order to steal his speed to return to his own time.>Barry arrests Snart before he kills Iris once she identifies him, defeats Thawne by trapping him in the Speed Force from where they both harness their power, prevents a singularity created by Thawne’s experiments from destroying Central City, and also exonerates his father and finally avenges his mother’s death.>Barry is later approached by Green Lantern (Ryan Reynolds), who wants to recruit Barry for the Justice League.
Ezra Miller and Grant Morrison's THE FLASH (2021)>Barry Allen is obsessed with traveling back in time to prevent his mother’s murder and his father’s wrongful conviction, but is advised against him by Dr. Jay Garrick.>Barry’s mentor Detective John Alvins is murdered by his partner Lisa Snart, who is a mole for her brother Leonard Snart and her boyfriend Sam Scudder. >Snart and Scudder use a serum that gives them meta-human abilities and go on a crime spree while framing the Flash.>Barry joins forces with his ex-girlfriend Iris West to prove his innocence. Iris is caught in the crossfire and killed during a fight between Barry and the Rogues. Barry attempts to travel back in time to save her, but becomes lost in the Speed Force.>Barry meets a younger Garrick, who is the Flash of a parallel universe, and he helps Barry escape, in the process becoming stranded in the past without his powers and aging into the older Garrick that Barry met earlier.>Barry manages to travel one day back in time, save Iris, expose Lisa and arrest Scudder. Snart’s powers become unstable and he dies fighting Barry, causing Lisa to swear revenge.>Barry deduces that his mother was murdered by another time-traveling speedster and vows to expose the truth and save her.
Berlanti's sounds like it loses the plot halfway through, and Ezra's shits all over the Rogues and fucking kills Cold. Give me Goyer's script with Pine replacing Reynolds, that sounds like a fun summer blockbuster to go see.
>>151935463>Chris PineGreen Lantern. Only Green Lantern
>>151935463This looks like the most well-rounded. The others kill pivotal characters way too early.
All of these are better than what we got
>>151936318>Berlanti's sounds like it loses the plot halfway throughIt's basically a condensed version of the first season of the CW show, which everybody loved.
>>151935456reverse flash looks really cool here
>>151936488Yeah and it sounds like shit condensed into a single movie
