Barry Allen

Image: Warner Bros.If you’re of a certain age, Michael Keaton’s Batman was one of the most formative characters in your nerd life. It’s a character we thought we’d never see again but, 30-plus years later, he finally returned in this year’s The Flash. And no matter what you think of the movie as a whole, if you loved Keaton’s Batman, it’s hard to deny how exciting it was to see that character again, hear his music, and feel that nostalgia. Unfortunately, Keaton’s return as Batman was short-lived, but he went out in style,…

Screenshot: Warner Bros.Aquaman (Arthur Curry, played by Jason Momoa) is the son of Tom (Temuera Morrison), a New England lighthouse keeper, and Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), the Queen of Atlantis.Atlanna was arranged to be married to a man she didn’t want to be with and fled the seas. Tom found her, they fell in love, and had Arthur, proof that the people of the ocean and the surface could co-exist... in more ways than one. Arthur’s existence threatened the kingdoms of the sea, and infuriated the powers that be, so Atlanna…

Superspeed is a difficult power to portray in superpowered adaptations. There are almost as many ways to portray superhuman agility as there are movies that have attempted it, from dilated time to blurs of vision. And yet, as more and more speedsters race to the big-budget world of the Hollywood blockbuster, none have been rendered so captivatingly like a single scene in Shin Kamen Rider.How Will AI Affect Authors? | io9 InterviewSuperspeed is not one of the abilities Takeshi Hongo (Sosuke Ikematsu), the young student…

It’s often impossible to watch something completely divorced from the context surrounding it. Despite what some may have you believe, once you know about the controversy attached to a film or show, you can’t un-know it, and that’s going to affect how you view the finished product in question.Doctor Strange 2's Sam Raimi on America ChavezRight now, Warner Bros. is learning this the hard way with The Flash. After about two months of pre-release positive buzz, the film ultimately crashed and burned at the box office and is…

Opening weekend for The Flash was certainly not what many people involved expected it to be. The box office was much less than anticipated. Complaints about visual effects and more were rampant. And yet, if you step back and look at The Flash’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score, it’s over 80%, which suggests many fans who saw it did enjoy it.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonI personally enjoyed it, as I said in my review, and afterward had a great chat with the film’s director Andy Muschietti and his producing partner and sister…

The newly released Flash movie has been in development for...quite a long time, having survived several regime changes that hit the DCEU and Warner Bros. overall. It was decided around 2017 that the film would effectively function as a swan song for the DCEU movies, so its general endpoint was always going to be as a refresh for whoever ended up taking control of the films down the line. But even the final film as it’s currently in theaters had a few different permutations to its ending, up to and including one of its…

One thing most superhero movies have going for them is you know how they should look. When Batman, Spider-Man, or Iron Man put on their suits, the world around them doesn’t change. With the Flash though, when Barry Allen puts on his suit and taps into his powers, the world around him does change—at least to Barry—and figuring out what that’s going to look like is one of the challenges of adaptation.Spoilers of the Week March 7-11You’ll see that play out in Warner Bros.’ new DC film The Flash, which is in theaters today.…

Director Travis Knight teases Laika’s epic battles for its adaptation of Wildwood. Get a look at the French remake of One Cut of the Dead. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale, and What We Do In the Shadows sets its season 5 premiere date. To me, my spoilers!What Does James Gunn Want from His Superman Movie? | io9 InterviewSuperman LegacyDeadline reports that casting for the lead roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane has narrowed down to at least 3 potential candidates for each role ahead of more screen tests this month.  …

We’ve been hearing about The Flash for so long—it had a bumpy road through production, plus there were some major DC Studios shake-ups along the way—it’s hard to believe it’s finally opening in theaters next week. The first full reviews are now online; they’re mostly on the positive side, but not everyone was a fan.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonFirst, here’s an excerpt from io9's own review by Germain Lussier:“The number of plates The Flash spins is incredible, mixing time travel tropes with multiversal madness and big…

Despite what the commercials, trailers, and posters are telling you, The Flash is not a movie about Batman or Supergirl. They’re both very much in it, sometimes more than once, and maybe after years of controversy and delays, Warner Bros. thought their inclusion would help get people into the theater. It probably will.But, as the title succinctly suggests, The Flash is very much about “The Flash,” and those other characters are there merely to enrich a very personal story with the type of big-screen bombast fans expect…