Before Andy Muschietti signed up to helm The Flash, the long-delayed DC Comics adaptation went through a number of creative teams.
Seth Grahame-Smith, Rick Famuyiwa, and John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein all departed the project over creative differences. Way back in 2015, we learned that The LEGO Movie and Solo: A Star Wars Story directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller had met with Warner Bros. to pen a story outline for the movie.
Fans were understandably excited, but we never really heard anything more than that until rumblings emerged in 2017 that they might be in line to eventually direct The Flash.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse producers confirmed they penned a treatment in 2015 and were made privy to Zack Snyder's wider plans for his DCEU.
"It did involve time travel, but it was not a multiversal story," Miller says of their version of The Flash. "So I think it is safe to say that this is its own unique thing."
"There are definitely some things that were in the trailers that I've seen that were similar to things that are in our treatment, but I'm certain that, from what I know now of the story, it seems quite different from what we had."
Lord jokingly added, "A lot of our treatment was about how much food he had to consume."
As far as we're aware, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey's Christina Hodson is now The Flash's only credited writer, a surprise when so many scribes have worked on the movie since it was first announced. Over the weekend, we learned that a sequel has been written by Aquaman's David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick which features appearances from Keaton's Batman and Calle's Supergirl.
Whether that will ever be made is hard to say, though DC Studios' future plans for the franchise are likely to become clear after The Flash's box office grosses are revealed.
The Flash arrives in theaters on June 16.