An Alternate Reality: Batman X2 for Flashpoint/JL2?

Is it true or just a bunch of fanboy bull? No sooner do we learn that Michael Keaton will join Ezra Miller for Andy Muschietti's "Flashpoint", we then learn that Ben Affleck will also enter the plot, establishing two Dark Knights for the price of one. (Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson will fly solo in Matt Reeve's alternate-reality, reset flick. Will it trigger a trio crossover? Probably not, but then as the ol' Bond axiom goes, "never say never again", right? {BTW: I found "The Batman" trailer to be damn dark and dandy in its riddled, "Long Halloween" atmosphere and allusions.})

With all that said, in the DC multiverse, the intersecting of different actors playing the same character at the same (tit-for-tat) time is common, but the gimmick hasn't until now been so seriously considered for the big, WB screen. That's what makes this potential (fated?) "Flashpoint" teaming so extraordinary. (That other silver-screen, DC performers could {should} be on board, only increases the anticipation. {Hey, Henry Cavill, over what surrogate Earth are you now flying?})

Let those parallel-universe crossovers mount, I say! Considering the way CW intermingled the DC crusaders (even going so far as to have Miller's Barry Allen cameo on Grant Gustin's show), we've more than gotten our feet wet, and are we at all complaining?

A big-screen blending would make a live-action "Flashpoint" adaptation a revolutionary "Justice League" sequel, and with "Justice League: the Synder Cut" on the horizon (and acting no less than another official, parallel chapter in the franchise), the timely texturing couldn't be better. 

It would sure be neat to see Keaton's Bruce Wayne tangle with Affleck's (if only in a brotherly and/or father/son sorta way), giving us the equivalent of when "Doctor Who" started its sagacious mixing and matching some decades back. Shoot, if it worked for the BBC, why the hell not for DC/WB? (Then again, word has it that Affleck's Batman may only be a lead-in for the Keaton/Miller team-up. Whatever the ultimate novelty {if any should, indeed, occur}, "Flashpoint'"s innate influences should spawn a huge moneymaker when {and if} movie houses do reopen across the land.)  

Flash and Supergirl Crossover!!!

Thanks to mutual producer Greg Berlanti, CBS and CW merge...well, maybe it's more the latter visiting the former, when Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) meets Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) on this week's "Supergirl" installment, "World's Finest" (a title otherwise linked to the ongoing Batman/Superman comic-book line). 

"The Flash" has opened the Multiverse door, and with this, any number of wonderful possibilities await: this particular crossover being one of its imaginative, anything-goes results. (A "Flash" prequel to the installment will air the following night on CW.) Still, that a character from one network can zoom onto another (regardless of the obvious Berlanti/DC/WB connections) is historic. It also generates the same excitement that I experienced as a kid when Batman/Robin and Green Hornet/Kato teamed, or gosh, when the legendary Roy Rogers guest starred on "Wonder Woman". 

Promotion for the Flash/Supergirl episode has leaned heavily upon the popular '70s jumbo-sized comic where Flash and Superman race for charity (an issue I still have, I might add), but this particular meeting will focus mainly on Allen helping Danvers combat the cunning combo of Silver Banshee (Italia Ricci) and Livewire (Brit Morgan).

This merger is truly something to get excited about and is as significant as any other live-action, superhero team-up this year. I hope beyond hope it leads to more such televised crossovers in the near future. One really can't beat this kind of endearing fun!!!

Arrow and Flash Zoom Back into Action!!!

As I did with Fox's "Gotham" (and ultimately will do for CBS' "Supergirl"), I'm establishing a spot to make comments on upcoming episodes of CW's televised DC hits, "Arrow" and "The Flash".

"Flash" strikes first, having left us with a whopper of a time-traveling dangler last season. I anticipate even more startling surprises to come and of course, we'll be introduced to Teddy Sears' Jay Garrick (my dad's version of the fastest man alive). I'd love it, too, if the producers would somehow cross John Wesley Shipp's Flash with Grant Gustin's, but maybe such a vast, parallel-universe leap would be too high a reach right now.

Also, with good ol' Green Arrow back, we're guaranteed more "Flash"/"Arrow" crossovers. (Last season's intersections were excellent, ranking in historic magnitude with the Batman/Green Hornet installments that thrilled me as a youth.) Also, somewhere down the line, we can expect the "Brave and the Bold" concept to expand further with lead-ins to "Legends of Tomorrow", which will feature Brandon "Superman" Routh's Atom. 

Incidentally, it's admirable how "Arrow" has progressed over the seasons to mirror its DC source, winning over a number of fans who were, perhaps, a tinge jaded by its early phases. Stephen Amell deserves lots of credit in this respect, having honorably projected Oliver Queen's required, no-nonsense focus. 

Anyway, I'll be posting comments as I see fit; feel free to do the same. (I find it disheartening when my "bizarre chats" end up one-sided, and it's never much fun talking to oneself when televised history is being made.)