Updates on The Flash, TDK, Transporter 3, Brazilian Job

By George 'El Guapo' Roush on January 24, 2008

During The Bank Job press junket today I got some one-on-one time with Producer Charles Roven about some of his upcoming projects including The Dark Knight and The Flash. He wasn't able to give out many details, but I tried to squeeze what I could out of him.

On a possible sequel for Get Smart:

"The movie is essentially finished. I'm just a believe that you gotta do movies one movie at a time. We've got a wonderful movie, we've got a fantastic cast, Peter Segal did a wonderful job directing it. We had some really wonderful contributions from Mel Brooks and I really hope and believe that the movie is going to be widely accepted. I'm hopeful that the movie's gonna work and if the movie works, we'll sit down and have a conversation about what there is to do next."

In regards to Christopher doing only 3 Batman films, with Two Face as the villain for the 3rd movie. I said I know Harvey Dent is in The Dark Knight, but is Two-Face? And would he be the main villain in the third film? (Charles looked at me like he wanted to slit my throat.)

"I just told you about my film making philosophy, Chris Nolan is so much of that, even more than I am. He is such a focused guy that he really only thinks about one thing at a time. Hes editing right now. You know, we're all very sad about what happened, but you know, right now, other than a pause to think about and give honor to Heath, we're gonna go forward and just finish the movie."

In regards to The Flash I'll sum up what he said:

The director is David Dobkin. The writer is Craig Wright. No casting information at all. He would not give an answer if it will be Barry Allen or Wally West as Flash, but he he does know about the first Flash Jay Garrick and said he finds it interesting that there was more than one Flash.

They do have a take in the direction they want to go with it, but wouldn't say what that direction is. The writer hasn't started writing because of the strike. They've done all the research on the first three Flashes and he said he knows everything about them. He laughed and said "Nice Try" when I asked what villain they were thinking of. "You wouldn't want me to tell you this far out." Uh...yes I would!

I asked him about the tone of the film. That Peter Segal is looking to make a sort of light comedy with Shazam, what would the tone be of The Flash?

"It's gonna be straight ahead and do a lot of honor to the source material. We're not going in a comedy direction. It's gonna be straight ahead action movie with a lot of character but it's not gonna necessarily be like The Dark Knight or anything, it's going to be its own thing. At least, that's what we're gonna try to do."

For Jason Statham's upcoming projects, I asked him if he was doing Transporter 3:

"Ya. We're gonna shoot it in Paris. Can't say what the storyline is."

Maybe this time he delivers one-liners at comedy clubs. BA DUM DUM! Thank you very much!

On The Brazilian Job:

"It's not happening. If it does happen, we'll all go 'Jesus, we didn't expect it to.' It's been stagnant for so long that it just feels that it needs some dynamite under it to make it move. I'm very happy to do it, I'd love to work with Mark again. But it's on the back burner."

He also mentioned Crank 2 goes into production in April.

That's all I got! Look for the full interviews soon.

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