DC characters don't seem to do as well at the movies as Marvel characters do-- Batman excepted, and maybe Superman too, I guess. I don't think this has to do with the lack of familiarity the general public has with the DC line-- people know Wonder Woman, and
Green Lantern isn't all that obscure, is he? Maybe what they should try is to go with a somewhat more obscure comic.
The Doom Patrol maybe, or the
Legion of Super-Heros. What could go wrong with that?
Apparently there is a Flash movie in the works, and I'll tell you right now what'll go wrong with that: the filmmaker will overlook the delightful weird stuff that made the Flash great, and will instead give us a movie about an angst-y fast guy. Nobody wants to see that.
The Flash has a rogue's gallery that is perhaps only second to Batman's but there's no way we will get Grodd, the super-intelligent gorilla, (or the Gorilla City), or Mirror Master, or the Pied Piper, or Captain Cold, or Captain Boomerang. (Why are they always Captains? There is nothing particularly nautical about these guys.)
Cultural critics are fond of observing that Marvel changed the genre by publishing comics that addressed real-world concerns, and in the post-Marvel world the Dark Knight and Watchmen, among others, refined that sensibility further, but let's face it, comic books movies work best when they remember that they are supposed to be fun. The Flash could be like that, in ways that Green Lantern is never going to be.
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