DC Extended Universe: 10 Post-Justice League Predictions

10. Flashpoint Will Be Scaled Back

The Flash's 2020 solo outing will be based on the Flashpoint event, a major comic storyline set in an alternate reality created by Barry Allen's speedy time-hopping.

The Flashpoint universe is a bonkers place, where the Amazons are at war with the Atlanteas, most of Europe is flooded and Deathstroke captains a pirate ship.

Oh, and Bruce Wayne was the one gunned down in that Gotham City alley, leaving it to his father Thomas to take up the cape and cowl... and his mother Martha to become a version of the Joker, for some reason.

Flashpoint in its purest form is a sprawling, mind-bending epic that is almost as unadaptable as Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, so bringing it to cinema is going to require some serious and careful streamlining.

It's already a Flash-centric story, but as this is a solo outing, the movie will likely have an even tighter focus on Barry Allen. Much of the Atlantean-Amazon conflict may have to be chopped, but let's hope Captain Deathstroke stays.

The Thomas Wayne incarnation of Batman is, however, essential to the story and it would be incredible to see The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan - who played Wayne senior in Batman v Superman - take on this role.

That said, a straight Flashpoint adaptation is too ambitious and wouldn't work as a Flash solo film; so expect a loose take with a stricter focus on the speedster.