Warner Bros. didn’t exactly set the world on fire with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice but they are still charging full-speed ahead with their plans for a comprehensive cinematic superhero universe. We already know about their plans for Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, Aquaman and The Justice League, but what about the little guys? What about… Booster Gold?
The fan-favorite character Booster Gold traveled back in time from the distant future, bringing with him impressive technology and a wisecracking robot named “Skeets” (whose name predates the other meaning of that word). He didn’t go back in time to save the world, he went back in time to be famous, and his shameless self-promotion was a refreshing comic contrast to the many super serious heroes in the DC Universe.
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Now it seems he’s getting his own film after all. Greg Berlanti is the producer of DC’s hit television series Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl, and he just gave an interview to Hollywood Reporter wherein he casually lets it slip that he’s working on a Booster Gold movie. Maybe he didn’t get the memo that the film wasn’t officially announced yet?
“I’m attached to a few films [at Warner Bros.] now, and one, Booster Gold, is a DC property,“ Berlanti reveals. “Zack Stentz, who wrote an episode of Flash last year, just got the job, so he’s writing the script now. I’d probably direct that, or I would want to.”
Zack Stentz has an impressive resumé in Hollywood, having contributed to screenplays for Thor, X-Men: First Class and the upcoming Power Rangers reboot. It is unknown whether Stentz’s frequent co-writer Ashley Miller is also involved in the Booster Gold movie.
Booster Gold was a member of the Justice League, and frequently acted as a comic foil for the superhero Blue Beetle (who, in turn, acted as a comic foil for Booster Gold). The character has appeared on television in several incarnations, included an animated version voiced by Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do) on Justice League Unlimited, and a live-action version on Smallville played by Eric Martsolf (Days of Our Lives).
Greg Berlanti was reportedly working on a Booster Gold television pilot several years ago, but this project never surfaced. However, the DC Universe spin-off TV show Legends of Tomorrow does feature several story elements that are familiar to fans of Booster Gold, including time travel and cast member Rip Hunter (played by Arthur Darvill).
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The 10 (or 12) Best Movie Prequels Ever:
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The 10 (or 12) Best Movie Prequels Ever
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10. The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Set before the hit TV series, Craig McCracken's excellent animated movie added elements of tragedy to the heroes and their arch-enemy, Mojo Jojo, while piling on more action than ever before.
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9. Amityville II: The Possession
The prequel to the popular but stodgy Amityville Horror told a more shocking tale, filled with cruelty and perversion. It holds up even better than the original.
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8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
In the years before Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones was more of a hired gun than a respectable archaeologist, he learned a valuable lesson about responsibility. He also bounded from one great action sequence to the next, with only a couple of subpar sidekicks holding his prequel back from total greatness.
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7. X-Men: First Class
The origin of the X-Men was a brighter, more lively motion picture than the rest of the franchise. Set in the glamorous 1960s, and against a backdrop of idealism faltering against Cold War paranoia, X-Men: First Class was the genuinely classy.
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6. Monsters University
Pixar took a rather silly idea - a Revenge of the Nerds-like comedy, starring a younger Monsters Inc. cast - and elevated it to impressive heights. Few films, especially kids films, explore the idea of personal failure as potently as Monsters U.
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5. Paranormal Activity 3
How do you keep a horror franchise about home video equipment fresh? Change the home video equipment. The Paranormal Activity prequel had to do the same tricks with different technology, forcing the filmmakers to get creative. The result were some of the scariest scares of the decade.
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4. Captain America: The First Avenger
The prequel to the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: The First Avenger harkened back to an old-fashioned sense of adventure, imbuing the whole franchise with a sense of heroic history, and forging a path to the future by introducing important ideas that would pay off in future installments.
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3. Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6
The fourth, fifth and sixth Fast & Furious movies all took place in between 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift, making them one of the strangest prequels ever made. But also some of the best. Fast Five and Furious 6, in particular, solidified the franchise's winning formula, with a lovable ensemble cast, over the top action and soap opera melodramatics.
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2. The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola's follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Godfather was half a sequel, and half a prequel, with the story of a father and son's rise to power playing out simultaneously. Some consider this to be the superior Godfather, but whether or not you agree it's some of the most stunning, ambitious filmmaking of the 1970s.
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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It doesn't entirely matter that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly precedes A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars more. All that matters is that Clint Eastwood is back in the morally unbalanced Old West, the pistols are flaring and the characters are unforgettable. Sergio Leone's masterpiece is one of the most vibrant motion pictures in history, a testament to the medium, and just as exciting today as it was fifty years ago.
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