The long search for a director for The Flash movie is reportedly over: they found two of them! John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, best known for writing Spider-Man: Homecoming and Vacation, are officially on board for FLASHPOINT.
The news was confirmed in a tweet from Daley, who simply said: “It’s happening.”
It’s happening! pic.twitter.com/Ga8vF6EnGG
— John Francis Daley (@JohnFDaley) March 3, 2018
Daley and Goldstein were last reported as being on board back in January. The production had been troubled for a number of years. Back in April 2016, The Flash film lost then-director Seth Grahame-Smith. The studio quickly scrambled to replace him with Dope director Rick Famuyiwa shortly afterwards. However, in November 2016 Famuyiwa also left the film.
It hasn’t been announced whether or not the directors will be working from an existing script or starting from scratch. From the title, we can guess that the film will be loosely based on the 2011 DC Comics event. In the series, Barry Allen wakes up to find that the timeline has radically changed and he appears to be the only one able to realise it.
