The Flash Movie Will Feature an "Amateur-Hour" Hero

Out of the gates.

By Joe Skrebels

Despite making his movie bow in next year's Justice League, Barry Allen will still be getting to grips with his powers in 2018's The Flash, says star Ezra Miller.

Speaking to IGN, Miller explained that while Allen will have learned more about harnessing the Speed Force in his team-up with Batman, Superman and co., he will still be an in-training superhero to some extent:

"I certainly think it will represent the next stage," he explained. "What I find fascinating is that we’re still very much amateur-hour Speedster." That's a journey Miller's clearly keen to continue in any potential future movies: "I’d love for the series to track an evolution of Barry Allen’s early times as The Flash."

When asked if we could see a fully-powered Flash in DC's movie universe one day, Miller explained why that was unlikely:

"Like, I love this comic 'Kingdom Come' - unbelievable art - and in that The Flash is fully evolved, and you never even see him, right? It’s just like a red mist, and there’s no crime in [Keystone] City. He protects a whole chunk of the country.

"So that wouldn’t make for the most interesting film - you know what I mean? What do we have to learn about that guy? That guy barely exists, right? He’s almost one with the Speed Force. So it’s interesting to go to the beginning."

Then - as if just to get us wishing for the impossible - he followed it up with an idea for a fully-powered Flash move as fantastic as it is unlikely: "It would be hard - you’d have to get Werner Herzog to make a movie about a bolt of lightning!"

The Flash recently lost its second director in a year, but Miller remains upbeat about the movie, saying "it's the same project" it has been since he was attached two years ago, and that his preparation - both physical and research-based - is continuing.

The Flash is due for release on March 16, 2018, and will feature Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, and is rumoured to include appearances from Ray Fisher's Cyborg, Billy Crudup as Barry Allen's Father, and The Rogues as antagonists.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and the very idea of a Herzog superhero movie fills him with the kind of conflicted wonder-dread that Herzog likes making movies about. What he's saying is that Herzog should make a movie about him. Follow him on Twitter.

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