Greg Berlanti Talks Flash

Greg Berlanti recently talked with SuperHeroHype about the progress of The Flash script. Berlanti is responsible for the Green Lantern script and is currently working with writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim on it's sequel. He went on to talk about the film's tone which is between Lantern and the Dark Knight. Using references to Se7en and Silence of The Lambs to describe the world of Barry Allen. Greg promises the film is darker than we will expect. The science fiction action could be on the level of the original Matrix. This all sounds promising but it's doubtful this film will end up as dark as Berlanti describes. While the Dark Knight was one of the toughest PG-13 films in history, it owed it's rating to the cut-away/implied shots by Nolan. I find it unlikely that the studio will be able to sell this ridiculous character to audiences unless they make drastic changes. Mainly getting rid of the suit and upping the violence/rating.

"Flash' as we're getting into it is interesting, too. Though Barry Allen was a little lighter in the comic, I think because of the nature that he was a CSI and moved in this world of crime before this stuff happened. I think it's tonally somewhere in between 'GL' and 'Dark Knight.' It's actually a little bit darker than when we were working on ('GL'), because you're dealing with somebody who is already a crimefighter in a world of those kinds of criminals and that kind of murder and homicide. I find you talk a lot about different films when you're working on a film, and we spend a lot more time talking about 'Se7en' or 'The Silence of the Lambs' as we construct that part of Barry's world, then I thought when we got into it. It helps balance a guy in a red suit who runs really fast." 

"In 'The Flash,' there's the sci-fi component and there's the crime component and it's fitting those two things together, and the sci-fi thing, we obviously want to nail that and honor that and do that in a way that feels visceral and real and cool and probably more in the tone of 'The Matrix" films or things like that."