Grant Morrison Says He and Ezra Miller’s the Flash Was Like ‘Back to the Future’

While The Flash film has gone through many revisions and directors, things seem to be on course for the Ezra Miller-led DC film. Andy Muschietti is the director now, with Birds of Prey’s Christina Hodson writing the script. But, last year comics writer Grant Morrison had teamed up to write a script for the film. What did that look like? Morrison reveals to Collider what he and Miller had worked on:

“Yeah, I mean, Ezra Miller and I wrote that last year, but it kind of, you know what it’s like? It was just one of those things we all… Well, I thought we had a really good version of The Flash and we wrote it as fast as The Flash, because it was so demanding, and it was pretty good. And I think after a few drafts, it would have been great. But the way some studios work, these things just come and go. I think about 15 people have already written versions of The Flash. But it does seem to be going ahead now, but not with the version that we did. I had fun. Ezra came over to the house and we just had a real blast and created the story. And maybe one day the script will leak out into the world.”

Morrison also said that their film had a Back to the Future feel to it:

“Yeah, it was pretty good. I mean, I don’t know what they’re doing with it. But it was pretty good. And it was a very different kind of superhero thing. It was more like Back to the Future, I would say, than a superhero movie.”

There were a lot of misconceptions about The Flash film. One being that Miller had wanted to go in a darker direction for The Flash. Morrison debunks this:

“No, it wasn’t [darker] really. I mean, elements of darkness were there and the material that they wanted us to use [was] the Flashpoint stuff. So, Ezra and I were actually trying to do something that was a bit more —like I say, it’s kind of like just a great science-fiction story. And if you don’t know [the comics], it would have made sense. But I have to say, I mean, I don’t want to talk about that, because somebody else has done their own work on it and I’m sure it will be great. And maybe, as I say this will leak out one day and people can judge.”

Only time will tell what the current film will look like. Are you excited for The Flash?

Source: Collider


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