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While speaking with blastr about his work writing the screenplay for Wrath of the Titans, writer Dan Mazeau shared some of what he's heard about the current status of The Flash movie:

"I think Warner Bros. is finalizing their strategy of how they want to roll out their DC superheroes, and obviously they've got Batman in an incredibly great place, and Green Lantern, I think, performed okay," Mazeau told the site. "I think they probably would have liked it to have done better, but yeah, there is still a whole lot of excitement for the DC universe, and I know The Flash is very high on the list.

"It's like anything, though," Mazeau went on to say. "It has to come together with the right cast. It has to come together with the right director and sort of the right moment, and so they're trying to push the rock up the hill ... hopefully there will be some news soon, but right now I can't really say anything else."

The writer did add that his earlier draft of The Flash featured the Barry Allen version of the hero but added, "For fans of Wally [West], there were some things in that script that would make them happy also."

A scooper informs the Finkester that Guggenheim and Green's draft of The Flash is expected to be handed in to the studio sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Also mentioned was that Greg Berlanti isn't expected to direct the picture "because he kinda wants to do something in between size-wise first before directing something that large."

The Green Lantern writing team of Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim have been hired to develop a treatment for The Flash. They've also been commissioned to develop a treatment for Green Lantern 2, though it's unclear which of the two projects would be the first for Warner Bros. to ask a screenplay for.

During an investor presentation yesterday Warner Bros. CEO Barry Meyer said that his studio was "nearing" a greenlight on The Flash movie as well as several other superhero movies.

With all the recent flurry of activity on a new Superman movie and Green Lantern, now there's a rumbling that Warner Bros. is wanting to find a director for The Flash movie and get it running up to speed, so to speak. IESB is reporting exclusively that WB's top choice to helm the pic is Greg Berlanti, one of the screenwriters on the Green Lantern movie and who, at one point, was attached to direct that film.

For a movie about a superhero with super-speed this movie has been crawling forward in its development like a snail. However, after all of the setbacks and disappointments, there still remains hope that The Flash movie will one day bow in theaters.

IESB is the latest outlet to give us some good news concerning this project. According to their sources, screenwriter Dan Mazeau is writing a new script for this one because Warners really dug his work on Jonny Quest.

IESB's Jeff Otto asked Flash producer Charles Roven about Mazeau's involvement and could only get this out of him: "You know, the problem... It’s not only a problem, I can’t really give you any information about The Flash. I can’t even confirm that Dan is on it. What I’m saying is, probably for about the last six months or so, the decision was made to really kind of, unless there was a DC character project that was ready to be green lit, to just not talk about it. So there’s nothing really that I can talk about at the moment."

You know what they said back in World War II, dontcha? Loose lips sink ships.