The Flash (2023) and 24: The Movie (unmade so far)

Film Stories

Monday, 9 September 2024 - 1 hour 6 minutes

Two films looooong in the making in this episode of Film Stories: one's been made at the time of recording, one hasn't.


Talk first surfaced of The Flash movie back in the 1980s, but it wasn't until 2023 that a film was finally released. By then, an under-fire Warner Bros was hoping for great things from the film, and confidence appeared to be high: but there were problems, and no shortage of them.


The idea of taking the smash-hit TV show 24 and turning it into a movie seemed fairly logical, and the production budget was going to be on the modest side. Yet delay after delay hit the project - but not before an audacious Die Hard spin-off had been proposed...

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