According to Variety, David Goyer, who wrote and directed Blade: Trinity, has inked a deal with Warner Bros. to write, produce and direct a feature film based on the DC Comics hero, the Flash.  Goyer, who wrote the screenplay for Warner's new Batman epic (Batman Begins), told Variety that the Flash is his favorite DC Comics character.  Created by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert back in 1939 in the midst of the 'golden age' of superhero comics, the Flash is the alter ego of Jay Garrick, whose exposure to chemical fumes gave him superhuman speed, and though he was a respectable member of DC's original pantheon of superheroes, it was the Flash's revival (as 'Barry Allen') in the 1950s by Fox, Julie Schwartz and Carmine Infantino which is credited with inaugurating the 'silver age,' that has given the character his real importance in the history of superhero comics.

Although the Flash has never made it to the silver screen, a Flash TV series, notable primarily for Danny Elfman's pulse-pounding theme music, aired on CBS during 1990 and 1991.