All this Superhero movie talk has got me as giddy as a school girl. DC is striking while the proverbial iron is hot - Looking to ride the predicted success of the upcoming Justice league movie, 2 more Hero movies have given the go ahead. Greg Berlanti (The Broken Hearts Club) has signed on to direct a live-action big screen adaptation of The Green Lantern, while Wedding Crashers and Fred Claus director David Dobkin has signed on with Warner Bros to direct The Flash.

Both fims will be set in the Justice League universe, which leads some to believe that Singer’s Superman sequel will be sidelined in favor of a JLA universe Superman film. I’m not even entirely sure that that is a bad thing either.

Dobkin told MTV that his Flash movie will be set in the same universe as the Justice League of America movie, and will follow the Wally West incarnation of the character. Both Wally West and Barry Allen are said to be featured in the film, which coincides with rumors that the movie will open with Barry Allen’s funeral. Asked about his vision for the Flash, Dobkin teased a somewhat melancholy tagline: “You can’t outrun yourself.”

Variety sheds some light on how Berlanti may have earned this gig:

“Guggenheim, who works with Berlanti as a writer-producer on Brothers & Sisters wrote the Marvel comicbooks ‘Amazing Spider-Man’, ‘Wolverine’ and ‘Blade’. Green, the Heroes co-exec producer who worked with Berlanti on Everwood and Jack & Bobby, wrote the Marvel Comics title ‘Superman/Batman’ and was a writer-producer on Smallville.”

The Hollywood Reporter has the following quote from Greg:

“To me, this was on the last great comic book movie that hasn’t been made,” said Berlanti, who grew up reading comics in the 1980s. “It was a comic book with a real mythology that you would see in a lot of the space operas and the sci-fi books. The best part about it, anybody can be become one of the Green Lanterns because anyone can end up with that ring.” “The danger and the fear from a lot of people is that it would be silly. In these post-’Harry Potter’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ days, it’s not any more fantastical than that. It’s taken movies like that to make it feel as if a Green Lantern film is possible.”

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