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Variety's Joseph Adalian reported today that the DC Comics character The Flash may be the next super-hero to show up on the small screen, courtesy of the WB.

The network has committed to a pilot based on The Flash, written and executive produced by Todd Komarnicki ("Resistance"). A "hefty penalty" has been attached to the project if it is not picked up as a regular series.

Just like Smallille's "no flights, no tights" policy, the red costume will not be seen in the series. This Flash is a young Gothamite (hey, what about Central City?) who just graduated from college. "Once our hero gets his calling, he's given the advice, 'Live fast so others don't die young,' " Komarnicki tells Variety.

The red suit will not be present, and the series will include the recurring element of time-travel.

Warner Bros.' Carolyn Bernstein told Variety that WBTV topper Peter Roth came to the network a few months ago with the Flash - but with a new, added twist involving time travel. "We've been talking internally about doing a 'Time Tunnel'-style show, and this was the perfect way to blend time travel with an established franchise we know is beloved by people who know the comic," she said. (Of course, there is a great franchise out there already with time travel that's not currently being used... I forgot who that Doctor was, though...)

Apparently, instead of a cosmic treadmill, this Flash's power allows him to run so fast he can travel backward or forward in time. "This is a story about a guy who's aimlessly drifting through life and barely moving at the speed of life when he discovers his calling is to move at the speed of life," Komarnicki said.

The show will have self-contained stories in addition to ongoing plot threads. "Every week he'll have a mission, a la Mission Impossible" Bernstein told Variety. "It's a big, fun, adventure series. There's also a mentor character who'll train him, and there's a legacy of Flashes before him." (If the mentor's name is Jay Garrick, we're in.)

"When he's in the future, he's missing his present," Komarnicki said. "He's really giving up his own life to help others."

Like KryptonSite , Gotham Clock Tower , and KnightsPast before it, hopefully this website can keep you updated on the status of the Flash pilot. When we hear anything, we'll post it here. If you happen to be involved with the making of this pilot and would like to talk, please contact us at planetkrypton@aol.com.

(Source - http://www.kryptonsite.com/flash )

Originally posted by STU:
Rumor has it John Wesley Shipp was written out of the 'Creek when he and Dawson's real-life relationship got a little too obvious.

Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
But then again, where are the Marvel shows on TV? Just the X-Men Evolution. Any others?

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
[b]But then again, where are the Marvel shows on TV? Just the X-Men Evolution. Any others?

There's the new animated Spider-Man on MTV [/b]

There were plans at bringing the Scarlet Speedster back to the small screen, but those plans have ground to a dead stop. Our dear friends at Kryptonsite (who also ran a Flash site with the same data) sent us the following: "A friend of mine put in a call to Todd Komarnicki's office and learned that the 'Flash' TV project has a new status: Dead. That would probably explain the lack of casting sides etc. leaking out. I've got an e-mail in to that production office; hoping for some kind of official confirmation, but I'd say 99.5% that the project is dead."