Both The Flash and 24: The Movie were in development for a long time – but only one, so far, has made it to the big screen. Here’s our podcast. Two films looooong in the making in this episode of Film Stories: one’s been made at the time of recording, one hasn’t. Talk first surfaced ... Podcast | The Flash (2023) and 24: The Movie (unmade to date)
Both The Flash and 24: The Movie were in development for a long time – but only one, so far, has made it to the big screen. Here’s our podcast.
Two films looooong in the making in this episode of Film Stories: one’s been made at the time of recording, one hasn’t.
Talk first surfaced of The Flash movie back in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2023 that a film was finally released. By then, an under-fire Warner Bros was hoping for great things from the film, and confidence appeared to be high: but there were problems, and no shortage of them.
The idea of taking the smash-hit TV show 24 and turning it into a movie seemed fairly logical, and the production budget was going to be on the modest side. Yet delay after delay hit the project – but not before an audacious Die Hard spin-off had been proposed…
