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Reynolds Ready for FLASH in JLA Movie

In the not so distant past, actor Ryan Reynolds told media outlets that a FLASH movie was dead in the water. Not anymore. With rumors of a JLA movie heating up, the comic fan has indicated that things are heating up to both MTV and IGN. He's also made it clear he's ready to don the red tights for either the JLA movie or the long rumored stand alone (which NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM director Shawn Levy was once attached)...

Here's what he told MTV yesterday:

"No, the Flash isn't dead at all. There's talk of it being a [Justice League of America] movie," he grinned. "And then there's other talk of doing a Flash movie with ['Night at the Museum' director] Shawn Levy."

For months, questions about the red-suited superhero have been met with a shrug of the shoulders from Reynolds, who insisted it was no longer a go. But now Reynolds has coyly let loose that he is indeed still in talks. "There are rumblings," he said.

"I don't really know how much I'm allowed to talk about that stuff," he declared. "[But] it's no secret that they have a JLA script and it's a project that's in development."

In fact, the only thing faster than the Flash is how quickly Reynolds would jump at the chance to play the character.

"I'd love to do it, it's just making it feasible," he contended. "It's a lot of money and it's a very difficult character to represent. You can't just have [the Flash] be a blur running by. These days people need to see more than that."

Granted superhuman speed, the Flash was a masked identity assumed by four different fictional characters in the comic canon, the most famous and longest-running of whom were Barry Allen and Wally West. Of the two, Reynolds seems most a match for the sarcastic West, but the 30-year-old actor says that his ideal "Flash" movie would have both.

"I'd like to see both Barry Allen and Wally [in a film]," Reynolds said. "I think they're really interesting characters, both cut from the same cloth."

But it was a possible JLA movie that had the actor most excited. According to Reynolds, the Justice League could be the perfect introduction to the character.

"I'd love to see a full-on Justice League movie done, the scope of which is just enormous," he asserted, clearly delighted with the thought of fighting crime alongside possible co-stars Christian Bale (Batman) and Brandon Routh (Superman). "I think it's something they can pull off."

(Editors note: Bale has indicated today during a press junked that he isn't going to be involved and Warner Bros shouldn't rush out JLA. See the other story on the site.--Jarrod)

Big thanks to Maniac scoopers, Phetus & Daforce, for passing this along...