Warner Bros. Working on 'Flash,' 'Green Lantern 2'

Warner Bros., striking before the iron is hot, has announced plans for a Green Lantern sequel. Shouldn't be a major surprise that the studio is planning a franchise; that's kind of the goal of these superhero movies. But to announce it so soon is a little out of left field. After all, the first movie won't even be released for a year. But Ryan Reynolds is locked in for the long haul, so this is probably smart business. Heat Vision says there's more going on at DC Entertainment - the meeting of the minds bewteen Warner Bros. and DC Comics, a fellow Time-Warner company - with the first moves on a Flash movie apparently under way. I'll do my usual bitching that this should be Wonder Woman first, but it will fall on deaf ears as always. "The Flash film will take inspiration from [writer-turned-DCE honcho Geoff Johns’] recent work and will feature the Barry Allen incarnation of the character. (In comics lore, several names have wielded the Flash mantle, though Allen, created in 1956, remains by far the most popular)," writes Heat Vision. I guess that's the best way to go for Flash, but I'm still carrying around a moderately sized question mark about the transfer from the page to the screen for this guy. Maybe it'll be great, but there are fewer excellent super hero movies than bad ones, and as long as they've been bringing up Flash as a movie concept, I haven't really loved it. But I said the same thing about Thor for different reasons, and that appears headed in the right direction. The Green Lantern sequel would probably fall in 2013, which would stagger DC heroes in 2011 (Lantern), 2012 (Batman), 2013 (Lantern again), and then who knows when for Flash.