The Greatest Flash Movie Never Made: David S. Goyer’s The Flash - Canned Goods 

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It hurts my heart that we could’ve had this beautiful movie instead of the hot mess that is currently bombing in theaters right now.

This is a very strong script and if it was done properly could have been one of the greatest superhero movies of all time, being remembered today like a model of the genre like the first 2 Spider Man movies and Nolan's Batman trilogy. Also Ryan Reynolds as Wally West was a PERFECT casting choice at the time, he would have nailed this role. The movie would also have done the "epic superspeed scene" with Wally saving everyone from the plane crash and becames a remarkable scene in movie history way before Fox could have the chance to do that with Quicksilver. But unfortunately WB didn't greenlight this Flash movie and they thought the crap version that we got this year was better for some stupid reason... WB really doesn't give a shit about the iconic DC characters they have in their hands, so much wasted potential.

Interesting how Reynolds and Levy still found each other working together a decade later on a different superhero IP for the competition. Always interesting great work!

This should of been Wally's era Instead they replaced him as though he never existed. 50 years of character development gone in a flash. Wally was my Flash. When he took over the mantle from Barry in Mike Barons run in Volume 2, it seemed as though DC finally had a character that readers could identify with. With Wally not only growing as a hero but as a person aswell, as he grew from a post adolescent boy into a man.

Every time you said "Hunter" I felt quite worried. This Zoom didn't feel as terrifying as Teddy Sears' Zoom though.

Still waiting on that cancelled Batman vs Superman movie from Wolfgang Peterson

Not sure I would've given Goyer the director's chair. However, this script sounds fantastic and I think we missed out on a legit comic book movie classic.

Ryan Reynolds was actually one of my dream casting and would’ve been perfect as Barry Allen or even Wally West

Im going to find an alternative universe where this movie exists

So WB literally waited 20 years to make a sub-par Flash movie just because they wanted it to spin-off from Justice League? That is seriously the most asinine business logic I have ever heard. Now I see why all their superhero films are bunk except for anything Batman.

I wished we got that wally west flash movie because this could've been really awesome and tons of fun.

What a phenomenal script, such a shame it never got made. I hope James Gunn can atleast check it out and maybe even use it or put some elements from it into a film. This film could also be interesting if it was Jay Garrick and Barry Allen as the main characters.

David Goyer's Flash project is the reason Smallville was forced to use Bart Allen instead of Barry Allen, which ended up being a waste due to Goyer's Flash project never being made.

This script is amazing! Definitely way better than what we got

I have to admit, the story for the most part sounds very engaging. Could’ve made for a really great WW Flash movie

Yeah really is a shame that this hit the cutting room floor but the flash (2023) made it. This script showed how to do speedster conflict right. When you have someone so overpowered the conflict has to be more internal, and so Wally's hesitancy to do anything plays into that a lot. I also like that fight scenes are sparse and it puts more emphasis on his rescue capabilities.

A couple of requests if you don’t mind: The cancelled Metroid movie that John Woo was supposed to make in the early 2000s and the Johnny Bravo movie that was supposed to star The Rock. The latter in particular, I’ve always been fascinated about.

This script could easily be repurposed for James Gunn's DCU. And have Wally West be played by Matt Lintz ("The Walking Dead", "Ms. Marvel").

That would have been dope. I think they missed the mark tho on cast. Sean william scott would have been way better choice in that time period. Shit even now. He got hella acting skills

WB had an easy hit on their hands, yet they decided to scrap everything just because they thought they could do better. And surprise surprise, it ended up becoming a disaster of epic proportions lol.

I'm sure the guy who gave us Blade 3 would have graced the world with a masterpiece.

This actually sounds pretty good, shame we never got to see it

I never understood one of brothers obsession with making one giant ensemble film first and then doing the spit off individual movie second. If there is one thing that everyone should learn from the phase 1 through 3 Marvel films is that you need to sit up the characters individually first before you put them in an ensemble. Because the problem with making adjustice League movie, the first or third film as it ended up being is that we don't know most of these characters. You didn't film's going to have to be super long in order to get everything and screen time or is going to be characters that are so cut out in the move that the whole thing will ultimately in inevitably be and feel rushed. Exactly what happened with the Justice League and the only reason why Zack Snyder's works is because it's a four-part mini series that literally gives it. It's easily an hour run time in order to do a proper ensemble film with no previous character introductions. They need to make an individual flash rule individual Batman movie, individual Superman movie and makes sequels to them before they put them all together. So that way people are already used to this version of Superman and Batman and The flash and the Wonder woman. So then they can focus on the actual plot character development and action instead of trying to keep re-establishing stuff that we should already know. But we don't know because none of these movies communicated it to us. So incredibly dumb by a logistics standpoint and you really shows the type of chimps with harmonicas that is running Warner Brothers.

Crazy to think the the Flashpoint movie we are getting in 2023 is fair game for its own episode with how many versions and continuities went through. Fingers crossed those scripts leak.

I’d rather see this as an animated film where they wouldn’t be held back by anything and could go all out, but as a DCUA film it would be amazing! Also, back then the effects would have been awful, so I’m glad they didn’t try to make this.

This (the original origin story) is what D.C. fans have been waiting for. I know I wanted to see the Turtle and Flash in the first Flash Film though I wouldn't want the Turtle to die after one film!!!

this was better than the entire flash movie. and i didn’t even watch the video just listened to it while driving. i knew hunter xoloman was zoom and it was still a surprise. ten times better than the flash movie. sad.

That's actually not bad. So far an interesting movie and Ryan Reynolds as Wally? I actually can imagine it. Pretty cool. Too bad it never happened.

Certainly an amazing script for this project! Way better than the movie we got last year! Your channel is awesome! I’m so glad to be a new subscriber!

The Flash is the comic series that got me into collecting. I bought my first Flash comic after falling in love with the show in 91. I collected The Flash for the next 6 years and came back to it after college. My Flash is Wally West. I am pretty sure I have his full run. This would have been great.

I'd much rather this than the Flashpoint movie we're getting, really want a good solo Wally Flash film

Im jealous of the other earths that got to watch this instead we got the green lanturn ryan renolds when we couldve had flash renolds

Wow, this story makes good use of us, characters and ideas, I hope we get to see a Flash movie like this someday

Wow, I can’t believe I missed this one. I thought I have been on top of all of the potential movies. I don’t remember hearing anything on this one. Very interesting.

So CW just more or less stole Goyer’s script, reworked it slightly, and turned it into season 1 of Flash. I never knew this script existed but I too thought Ryan Reynolds would have been a great choice for Wally West/The Flash; far better than Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.

I've been waiting for this. I saw a bootleg trailer of this that was played during The Watchmen screening

Turtle's cell with the Master of Disguise Easter egg, nice. Love the ideas here, shame it couldnt get off first gear. Dammit.

The flash cancelled moviie script is peak and wild!

i had read 3 unproduced The Flash movie script. the first's penned by Goyer like in this video. second's penned by Berlanti and Gugenheim, it's intended to be a movie but they developed it as TV Series in CW (starred by Grant Gustin) the third's penned by Chris Brancato, in this script The Flash is Wally West, he fought against The Immortal tyrant known as Vandal Savage and his mercenary squad known as The Rogue (Pipe Piper, Heatwave, Rainbow Raider, Weather Wizard)

If the Ezra's The Flash never made, there will be video essay abut: "The Greatest Flash Movie Never Made"

oh Goyer. The stories (that never were) the man could tell.

excellent video!

This film sounds like it would have been great, but I think it would have worked best as a third or fourth film in a franchise, since I think we'd need time to get to know Barry before Wally takes over, especially since I'd want to see Wally as Kid Flash first.

Once again WB shows how incompetent they can be as a studio. This would've been incredible but WB could as usual not see the greatness they had

This is way better than the live action Flash movie with Ezra Miller.

fantastic animation as always mate

This could have been an incredible Wally movie! Would love to see something along these lines in the future

Thx Again For The ❤ On the Jurassic Park vid.

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Love the channel

This is the best thing Goyer ever wrote and would have been better than the awful Ezra Miller movie and all of the snyderverse. I wish it happened.

This is interesting it would be cool to see something like this i honestly just want to see wally west tbh

That was pretty good. I don't know if Ryan could pull it off, but I could see the potential.

Now this sounds like a good flash film. Way better then Ezra’s

Hey I know you might not do this request but this is one cancelled movie that I don’t see many people talk about and that is the cancelled live action Scooby Doo movie from 1996 no one has talked about it much and I feel needs more attention drawn to it, there was a video talking about it by Bedhead Bernie but has since been removed. The entire script is available online in a Google Drive link I remember reading it while I was at school and from what I remember is was pretty good. If you want the link to the script I can send the link if you want to read it.

Man, WB has been a DC mess for a long time.

I love the Flash and have been cosplaying as him.

I wish this film became a reality because I would prefer this than what we got because it really wasn’t a Flash movie it’s a flashpoint because it has other heroes instead of Flash doing things on his own and the villain is General Zod again instead of any of the Flash rouges gallery except for this evil version of him who is not Eobard or Zolomon. I would also make this perfectly to connected to the Nolanverse I really like Turtle and Hunter Zolomon which I mean the comics version of Zolomon not the tv series version where he wears black and is not sympathetic as he is in the comics which I don’t why isn’t he yellow here? Can you do David Hayter’s Hulk movie or Michael France’s Hulk movie because they seem very much the same plot and the same villains that they use and the Universal cancelled Captain America movie in the 80’s and have them both at the same time before Captain America 4 comes out because the Leader from the MCU Incredible Hulk movie is returning. Superman 3 original script, Superman Lives and Superman Returns sequel what do they have in common, the villain that has never been on the silver screen “Brainiac”

Why did this movie get canceled, this is an awesome story!!

Imagine if jj Abrams directed the David s Goyer script

in 2023 we got Flash putting an infant in a microwave.... kinda hits different...

WOW! THIS NEEDED TO BE OUT INSTEAD!!

With how much the Flash movie was reshot and re-edit might as well have turned into one of those choose your own adventure movies on Max.

Imagine associating David S. Goyer with great story telling.

No faith in Goyer. He’s like Michael Bay and Tim Burton. You got to keep them on a tight leash

Goyer's version would've been much better than what we ended up with, because it was actually ABOUT THE FLASH! (And it wouldn't've starred a criminal.) Why did these idiots want to do a team up movie before the individual characters had been established?

So good man! I’m binging all ur vids. Gonna promote ur channel on my podcast too. It’s a much smaller channel on RU-vid but I def want my audience to know about this channel. Great work!

Still way better plot than what we got

This is way better than that CGI we got last Friday.

Beautiful love the flash ❤

DC has thrown away SO many good movies.

The return of Barry alien would work as a movie wally is the flash we set up rouges as main badguy, then Barry returns secretly processor zoom. Zoom being a flash fan knows everything about flash so would give lore.

I am david s. goyer fan . There is really cool story idea. As far as i know he man movie script si cool. Hope james gunn will hire new dc projects.

Biggest issue with the script is that it makes Wally to much of a selfish asshole. Wally's story is about trying to living up to and forging your own legacy. It be like if Spider-Verse made Miles an unlikable tool. Also not using Linda Park who's one of the few non white love interest in comics just feels wrong.

Shawn levy's Flash Would Be Amazing

I think there is a original version of one film, that you could make a video about.

4:29 battery Allen. Dad jokes aside. This could've been a fun movie. 😞WB, the lords of self sabotage.

Yo hemmas where have u been the past 4 months?

This movie would have been better than actual movie This movie would have respected anyone unlike that movie who CGI on long gone actors

Aw man this could’ve been great- I trust David Goyer would’ve done well with the script and Ryan Reynolds as Wally West would’ve been interesting to see.

This would be my movie Barry dies wally kids flash retirees. Wally just wants to have fun and party with his powers, and the rouges and planing a big hist without the flash they think nobody will stop them. Wally interfers rouges teleport away. Cold is happy that now being a criminal is hard again and the city is happy it has a protector. You could do a megamind and have the villians actually miss the hero.

This would’ve been a hit :(

It’s a shame Ryan would’ve been better off as the Flash rather than Green Lantern….oh well thanks WB

oh what could've been....

You’re Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

So, we were supposed to see ryan reynolds, right after his very bearded performance in the only good Blade film, as a kid? Or is barry like "uncle Ben" old in this?

And then Australia decided there weren’t enough Ozzie’s in JL:Mortal to get some tax credit, scuttling the DCEU before it could form. Paving the way for Batman Begins….

This would have been great

Someday if we do decentralize Hollywood, after the Snyderverse is restored, David S. Goyer's Flash Movie should be given a chance.

Really curious about that whedon Wonder Woman movie

So all of these gems of a movie were canned coz of the Writers Strike...got ya. We need to start a law suit against writers robbing us from amazing movies never being made!

Except the kissing feet.😅 I love the script ⚡⚡⚡

Can you tell us the story of horton hatches the egg by blue sky pictures that deleted script

It would’ve been a lot better than the Flash Movie we got.

Wish we got this. Wally is my favourite Flash and I hate how much Barry outshines him now.

Would of been cool for a flash movie. Then the next could of been flashpoint with reverse flash

I would rather gotten this film instead.

To think we could've gotten this. Instead, we got the bullshit with Ezra Miller.

This could be a fire 3 hour film, hope they reuse this script for a Wally film