Following hot on the heels of the news that What We Do In The Shadows director Taika Waititi will be going completely serious for Thor Ragnarok, DC and Warner Bros. have barged in on the unexpected director hiring game. The word coming out of The Hollywood Reporter is that the best-selling author of 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' and 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' Seth Grahame-Smith is in talks to direct and write The Flash. And no, that isn't a joke. The author would be making his debut working to a treatment by LEGO supremos Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (who themselves were considered for the director role before they got embroiled in that little thing called Star Wars). Quite why Warner Bros. are pushing forward with a stand-alone Flash movie - which already has a release date of March 3, 2018 and a lead actor in the shape of Ezra Miller - when the TV show is doing so well is a mystery. But then you can't exactly argue with their vision to emulate the MCU by building each individual component of the Justice League universe around the central ensemble event movies. No amount of confidence in that vision will convince anyone that an author of two period horror riff novels is the right man to lead any movie at this stage of his career, but again, maybe it's best to consider this as Warner Bros attempting to clone Marvel's success with hiring unexpectedly. It has to be that really, because when you break it down from a sensible outside view, it sounds suspiciously like an April Fool's Day story...