Mark Belkin recently interviewed J.M. DeMatteis for the "DC in the 80s" webzine. When the conversation turned to the JLI, the topic of writing for Booster Gold came up.

Mark Belkin: How was it writing Blue Beetle and Booster Gold?

J.M. DeMatteis: The great thing with those characters — and all characters, really — is when you're in 'the zone', you're not writing them, they're writing you. People say "What made you put Booster and Blue Beetle together?" We didn't! They did it! Blue and Gold were in some scenes together and something sparked. We followed them where they led us and this wonderful relationship developed that exists to this day.

Mark: Are you excited by the Booster Gold and Blue Beetle movie?

JM: Don't know if Blue Beetle will appear in the movie, but I hope he does. It's being written by someone who has become a Twitter friend, Zack Stentz — who's written for the recent Thor and X-Men movies, as well as The Flash TV show. So Booster's in excellent hands.

The whole interview with DeMatteis, covering topics as varied as the writer's spirituality and comedic influences, can be found at dcinthe80s.blogspot.ca.

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There can be no more doubt about whether Warner Brothers is working on a Booster Gold movie. Yesterday, in an interview with Lacey Rose of the Hollywood Reporter, Legends of Tomorrow executive producer Greg Berlanti had this to say:

I'm attached to a few films [at Warner Bros.] now, and one, Booster Gold, is a DC property. 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 is perhaps better known as the writer of Thor and the new Power Rangers movie. I'm disappointed that Berlanti's associate Andrew Kreisberg, writer of Justice League Unlimited's "The Greatest Story Never Told" and SyFy's 2011 undeveloped Booster Gold television show, appears to be off the project, but I look forward to Stentz's take on our favorite hero.

(This interview confirms information first revealed earlier this week by birthmoviesdeath.com.)

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Over the weekend, a reliable source confirmed 2 things for me:

1) Booster Gold will NOT be appearing in the season finale of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

2) Booster Gold will NOT be appearing in ANY DC television property in the foreseeable future.

Why not? Because Booster Gold is currently reserved for development as a movie property.

Good things? Bad things? You decide.

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Continuing their desperate attempt to jump start competition with Marvel's thriving film offerings, Warner Brothers has added two as-yet-untitled DC Comics-based movies to their planned release schedule in 2018 and 2019.

It's still anyone's guess what properties these films will star, but if there's any truth to the long-running Booster Gold film rumors, this announcement gives us hope that we might see Booster on the big screen sometime before 2020.

You can read more about the changes to Warner Brothers plans (plus find a bit of speculation about how these films might fit in the DC Extended Universe) at cinemablend.com.

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Perhaps you saw the news yesterday breaking on Entertainment Weekly that actor Patrick J. Adams has been cast for that "fun character the fans will love" role in the season finale of DC's Legends of Tomorrow? Booster booster Jeremy R! Hudson of nerdbastards.com desperately wants Adams to be Booster Gold. TVLine.com insists he won't be.

(Personally, I expect to see him as a Legionnaire. Given James' success playing a genius on USA's Suits, I'm betting he'll be playing Brainiac 5.)

Part of the reason I'm inclined to believe that Booster Gold will not be on Legends of Tomorrow anytime soon is because someone has finally leaked the synopsis of the long-awaited Booster Gold movie. It's ... interesting. Brace yourself. A lot of things have been changed.

In a nutshell, Booster Gold is — spoilers! — a time cop from the future in a high-tech police force run by Ted Kord. Senator Ballard — who you may remember as the villain in Booster's first adventures — is the bad guy. There are some other familiar names scattered throughout, but no Michelle, no Rip, and worse, no Skeets!

BOOSTER GOLD: THE MOVIE

As we first meet him in the future, Michael "Booster" Carter is an agent in the Time Enforcement Commission (T.E.C.). Booster's job is to police the time stream and ensure that no one goes back in time to change history.

Poor Booster's life isn't easy. He broods over the death of his wife, Trixie, and their unborn child. They were killed in a mysterious explosion some years ago. Booster's life only gets more complicated when his partner, Dan Garrett, goes rogue. Garrett has abused his privileges as a T.E.C. officer, and it is up to Booster to travel into the past and track him down.

Relying on his instincts, Booster eventually tracks Garrett to 1929 New York City, where he intends to profit on the Black Friday stock market crash. When confronted by Booster, Garrett claims that he was extorted into his crimes by Senator Henry Ballard, the powerful government official responsible for oversight of the T.E.C. Although Booster promises to protect Garrett from Ballard, Garrett commits suicide to ensure that Ballard won't alter history and destroy his family.

Interested in tracking down the truth about Ballard, Booster convinces his supervisor, Ted Kord, to allow him to travel back in time and investigate Ballard's activities. Kord assigns Booster a new partner, rookie Jaime Reyes, and together the pair travel to the 20th century.

Letting nothing stand in their way, Booster and Reyes track young Ballard to a warehouse where they find him in a contentious meeting with his partner, Dirk Davis. To everyone's surprise, the future version of Ballard arrives. Careful not to touch his younger self — whenever two time-displaced objects come into contact, like matter and anti-matter, they are mutually destroyed — he instructs his younger self how he will become rich and powerful.

Frightened by this encounter, Davis panics. The older Ballard kills Davis, and Booster moves in to make an arrest. He is betrayed by Reyes, who is also working for Ballard. In the end, both Ballards escape, and Reyes is critically wounded.

Only after Booster chases Ballard back to the future does he realize that he's failed to save history. Ballard is no longer a senator, but the President. The T.E.C. is being decommissioned, and Booster Carter is dead. Kord has no memory of the changes wrought to his timeline, and is reluctant to believe Booster's claims against Ballard. Booster is eventually able to convince Kord that they were once great friends, and Kord agrees to help Booster return to the past by stealing a T.E.C. time sphere for a one way trip back in time.

Once again in the 20th century and without any leads, Booster decides to visit his wife, Trixie, and warn her about the explosion that will kill her. Unfortunately, the older Ballard has gotten to Trixie first and is setting the bomb that will kill her. Knowing that his younger self will go on to be President, he doesn't mind sacrificing himself if it will keep Carter out of his way.

Luckily, the older Ballard's plans are derailed when the younger Ballard arrives, having been summoned by Carter. After a brief scuffle, Carter tricks the two Ballards into touching, destroying both of them as well as the bomb.

Satisfied that time has been corrected, Booster returns to the future to find it better than it ever was before. Garret and Reyes are alive and well, and Ted Kord is still in charge of a fully-funded T.E.C. At the end of the day, Booster goes home to his wife and his grown son, Rip.

THE END

(Click here to reveal plot spoilers. Don't say I didn't warn you.)

Credit to AnotherMealTicket.com for digging this up.

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