David S Goyer, writer and producer for Constantine, The Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel is no stranger to DC properties at this point. Now, as he prepares to help guide the upcoming Sandman film he’s let some information slip to whet our appetites.  In a story on Deadline.com, they talked briefly with Goyer about his production company: Phantom Four Films.  Goyer has picked independent film veteran, Kevin Turin to run his production company.  Turin was a producer for films like; An American Crime and All is Lost. (imdb) While Goyer’s been involved in several big-tent pole films for Warner Brothers with his work with Nolan and Snyder, Goyer…

The Flash (1×07) – “Power Outage” Written by: Grainne Godfree and Alison Schapker Directed by: Larry Shaw This week opens on three friends partying outside of town the night of the Accelerator explosion.  One of the friends, Farooq, has climbed an electrical tower to get a better view of the accelerator while being heckled by his friends.  Farooq sees the explosion and before he tries to climb down he warns his friends to get in the car.  As the shockwave passes over them, Farooq is enveloped by electricity then falls to the ground, seemingly dead. In present day, Dr. Wells is in his secret room talking with some sort of…

Entertainment Weekly spent some time with Rick Cosnett and Grant Gustin from The Flash recently.  They discussed the first season’s biggest mystery; Who is the Reverse Flash? Truthfully, this mystery is older than the series as Grant Gustin describes his mother’s murderer as a ball of yellow lightning shaped like a man during his appearance on Arrow last season.  He’s appeared twice; first in the pilot where he murders Nora Allen just as Barry described.  He reappeared in last week’s episode, “The Flash is Born.”  This time, he attempted to intimidate Joe West off the Nora Allen murder case. Executive Producer, Andrew Kreisberg told EW that they are “building towards…

Deadline reported today that Fox has ordered a pilot based on Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.  Global Frequency was a twelve issue series written by Ellis and drawn by numerous artists.  It chronicled the exploits of an independent covert intelligence agency ran by a former spy.  The organization brings together strangers with highly specialized talents for specific missions to protect people from other black-ops projects.    It was published from 2002 to 2004 by DC Comics on the Wildstorm Imprint. Warren Ellis is a longtime writer for both DC and Marvel; he’s written titles such as Planetary, Hellblazer and The Authority.  He is no stranger to film or…

Gotham show-runner, Bruno Heller, talked with Entertainment Weekly about hit Fox series and had teased out some information about what’s to come.  First up, while Bruce Wayne is still a teenager and years from donning the Cowl Heller plans to introduce Dick Grayson.  In a round-about way by bringing Dick’s parents, John and Mary, to the show down the line in what he calls a prenatal origin story.   While he promises “no MRIs” he does say that we’ll see how the pair of acrobats get together. Heller then promised a return for Ivy Pepper, the future Poison Ivy.   However, when the subject turned to Ivy’s gal pal, Harley Quinn, Heller…

The Flash (1×06) – “The Flash is Born” Written by: Jaime Paglia and Chris Rafferty Directed by: Millicent Shelton This week’s episode opens with a bit of a twist on the now familiar format; Iris is giving us the opening voice-over.  She asks us to believe in the impossible and we quickly learn that she in the middle of posting a story to her blog.  Mere seconds after posting, she is raced to the roof of Jitters and confronted with The Streak.  Barry tries once again to convince her to shut down the blog but Iris continues to refuse.  She begins to question him he evades her before frustration can…

As we’ve seen in “Feast of Friends” John Constantine isn’t much of a team player, not so for Matt Ryan.  IGN spoke with the actor about his experience as Constantine thus far.  He touched on a number of things but had some words about the possibility of being a part of a Justice League Dark film. With team-up properties popping up all over television and film, it’s not surprising that Ryan is open to joining with others saying; “What’s so great is that there’s so many great storylines and the Justice League Dark stuff as well. How fantastic would that be if we could do something like that? Obviously those…

By now, most people know that the upcoming DC Cinematic Universe will be different from the CW-Universe.  Arrow star, Stephen Amell shared his thoughts about this recently.   As reported by comicbook.com, Amell was a guest on AMC Movie Talk.  When asked about the announcement WB made recently he was frustrated at the timing of the announcement.  In particular, how the cast and crew of The Flash might have been disrespected.  “I thought that the way that Warner Bros. announced the slate of DC movies could have been handled better.“ Amell then spoke about series star, Grant Gustin’s portrayal of Barry Allen/The Flash.  Amell felt that with the Flash premiering to…

TheWrap.com reported that a front runner for the director for the Wonder Woman solo film has emerged; Michelle MacLaren. The wrap didn’t name their source but they described the individual as someone with “knowledge of the project.”  The source did not make it clear if any negotiations are underway but they did state that there are other candidates should MacLaren not work out. MacLaren is an experienced television director and producer.  She directed episodes of The Walking Dead, NCIS and Game of Thrones.  She directed eleven episodes of Breaking Bad and served as Executive producer.  She won directing Emmys both for her work on Breaking Bad and Walking Dead and…

The Flash (1×05) – “Plastique” Written by: Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing & Brooke Eikmeier Directed by: Dermott Downs This week’s episode opens at a Central City bar where Barry, Cisco and Caitlin meeting up with Eddie and Iris.  Barry’s considering his various relationships and a revelation about his powers that I would have found horrifying at twenty-five. The scene shifts to a Central City hi-rise, where a window washer is working outside while a security guard is inside sweeping the fourteenth floor.  He comes across a woman attempting to steal a file folder and in order to make her escape she detonates an explosive bag. Back at the bar,…