Tv and Movies Unite!

He'd do well on the big screen.

Since DC comics announced its film projects out through 2020 (Sorry Hal, it’s still gonna be a while) there have been more rumors flying about than any one person could pay attention to. One rumor that DC and Warner Bros. have thoroughly quashed is the idea concerning their television programs, namely that Stephen Amell and Grant Gustin will not be portraying Green Arrow and The Flash on the big screen. Now, for fans conceptually this isn’t too big a deal, Comics and Superheroes have been subscribers to the Multiverse Theory of reality for a very long time. If your universe is part of a greater web, it opens a lot of possibilities, including but not limited to Evil Twins, evil controlled parallel universes, replacing dead characters with alternate versions, and the fun What If ideas. But, for fans of the shows (myself included) it is kind of a letdown that there will be another Green Arrow and Flash running around when there are two perfectly good ones already.

Here's an idea, anyone who wants to be GA in a movie has
to fight Amell for the role. If he beats Amell, he gets the part.

Now, they’ve said this is how it is and there is no use crying over spilled milk, but I must ask the question, “Why the heck would you waste good resources?” I for one really believe that to include Amell and Gustin into the Movie-verse would be the start of something wonderful. It would be difficult, time consuming, and expensive, but I think it would be simply amazing if we could get to the point where a superhero could exist in both Television and Movies. Something like Agents of Shield, but instead of focusing on a side character and his own special team, instead it would focus on the titular character.

My idea is that the Television series could focus on expanding the character and the mythos, while any film would focus on those major crises that deserve a major motion picture. Let’s focus on the Flash. If they followed this development angle, the show would focus on introducing the characters and the beginning elements of important storylines. In the Flash’s case they’d introduce things like Captain Cold and other individual members of the Rogues like Heat Wave, Top, and Captain Stupid Gimmick er- I mean Boomerang. The season finale of the Flash would probably focus on the defeat of Zoom the Reverse-Flash, with a post credit scene of Captain Cold deciding that one baddie couldn’t possibly take out the Flash. Then the movie would focus on the creation of the Rogues and the Flash’s confrontation with his enemies combined force. Sure, the individual members would be less dangerous than Zoom but their combined tech and overall nastiness could cause more havoc than the yellow speedster.

Vulture, Craven, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and Rhino
So one movie to introduce...four characters, and expand two?
That's a tall order.

The connection to TV would work as promotional material, far better than any commercial. And, if the TV series handled most of the character development, the Movie could focus on the action. Sure, there would still be character developing moments, maybe the introduction of plot lines for the shows next season, but the main focus would be on the chaos and baddie fighting. It would also help trim the bloat from movies like the Sinister Six movie. Instead of making a separate film devoted to introducing the other three members of the Six, a TV series could handle the intros and also give each character enough screen time that we wouldn’t feel like the movie was too imbalanced. It would also keep from making an entire movie centering not on the hero, but on the villains working to set up a fight with the hero.

They’d probably have to work with no-name or TV actors for this kind of project, since they would be more willing to sign whatever multipicture/number of season’s contracts. Which would hopefully decrease the RDJ effect, namely an actor realizing that they are so awesome that the studios need them more than they need the studio. I love you Robert Downey, Jr. but damn, you want lots of money. Also, we'd probably have a year or so of nothing while they work on either the film or TV series, but hey, small price to pay, right? I know its nuts, and I know that odds are no one would ever go for it, but hey, it’s an interesting concept if nothing else. Next time, a villain profile for the Avenger’s next big baddie, Ultron, a robot with a number of odd psychological issues… 

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