Russ Burlingame caught Geoff Johns on the red carpet opening for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and asked him about Booster Gold. This is what Johns said:

"You'll see [Booster Gold] very soon, and there's talks about ... there's actually a lot of plans for Booster Gold, one of my favorite characters. But yeah, Booster Gold fans, you will definitely be happy with what we've got coming up in the years ahead."

Years? Hmm. That seems like a long timetable, but at least Johns hasn't forgotten who Booster Gold is. Visit ComicBook.com to read what Burlingame thinks this could mean for our hero.

On a very related note, the New York Daily News released an interview on Monday with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder. Asked why he recast the Flash for his movie to exclude the television version, Snyder said the tone of the television show is "not our world." Interviewer Ethan Sacks clarified the comment for his readers:

Simply put, [television's Grant] Gustin's Barry Allen smiles way too much to be allowed in the same Hall of Justice as Ben Affleck's Batman.

Snyder is the man behind the helm of the two upcoming Justice League movies scheduled for release over the next few years (perhaps tying in to Johns' Booster Gold timetable?), but if the only kind of movie he is willing to make is so serious that humor is strictly verboten, I have to hope that Booster Gold and Blue Beetle will never make an appearance in them.

As a Blue and Gold fan, I'm not going to be happy if Booster finally shows up in the DC cinematic universe only to have to experience the events of Countdown to Infinite Crisis all over again.

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Gone with the Wind was a huge smash hit in 1939. Adjusting for inflation, it's still the biggest blockbuster of all time — by 200 million dollars! Isn't it ironic that a movie sympathetic to the antebellum South would be the catalyst for the first African-American to win an Academy Award on February 29, 1940?

Back then, the Academy Awards still tended to reward movies that people had actually seen in theaters. The financial success of Gone with the Wind carried over into eight Oscar wins, including Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the movie's delightful "Mammy."

There's a long-standing, unsubstantiated rumor that Mexican actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez was the model for the now-familiar Oscar award first introduced in 1929. However, you can't help but notice the similarity between the famous golden statuette and a certain, golden time-traveler ("The Greatest Model You've Never Heard Of").

Given how much attention has been given lately to the Academy's preference for lily-white talent, ask yourself which is more far-fetched: that the Academy Award of Merit was modeled on a white time-traveler or that it was based on a Mexican? You be the judge.

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Batman: Bad Blood is the latest direct-to-video release by DC Animation. Eric Francisco interviewed Batman: Bad Blood director Jay Oliva for Inverse.com, and what he had to say might surprise you.

Francisco: What else can we expect in the future of DC Animation? What other books are you guys are looking to adapt?

Oliva: We do the Justice League continuity then Elseworlds, so there's a lot of things. I'd love to do Gotham by Gaslight. Even in this [Justice League] continuity, I'd love to do a Batwoman/Wonder Woman movie, based on that story. I thought it was a fantastic pair-up, you know? Or I'd love to go back and do a Flashpoint sequel or prequel.

Francisco: I'm going to shout out two random DC things and ask if there's going to be a movie: Constatine. Are we going to see an animated Constantine?

Oliva: Hopefully. I love Constantine, he's one of my favorite characters. I'd love to get [series lead Matt] Ryan back to do it, I thought he was great. [But] like I said, there's a whole list I'd love to do. I'd love to do Booster Gold, that would be a fun movie.

Damn right, that would be a fun movie.

So that's the director of a DC Animation movie saying on the record that he'd love to make an animated Booster Gold movie. That certainly doesn't mean it is happening, but so long as it remains a possibility, I'm not giving up hope.

You can read the whole interview on Inverse.com.

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Clevver.com has released their list of suggested "needs" for a Blue Beetle/Booster Gold movie.

I applaud Joslyn Davis' enthusiasm, but I have to say that her experience with the characters doesn't exactly match what I've been reading. Among other things, Skeets isn't spelled with a "z," and I'd never call Gotham University's fallen star quarterback Michael "Booster" Carter a "nobody in the future."

But I don't mean to nitpick. I'll be happy enough if Warner Brothers ever manages to actually make a Blue Beetle and Booster Gold movie.

You can find this video in its native habitat at Clevver.com.

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Russ Burlingame interviewed Back to the Future co-screenwriter Bob Gale in anticipation of the movie's upcoming 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray release. Naturally, Burlingame asked Gale if he had any interest in writing for another comedic time-traveler.

Gale said "no."

But he did say he'd read some Booster Gold and called it "a lot of fun."

It's always cool to hear that a successful Hollywood screenwriter and producer is familiar with the character. Find the rest of Gale's discussion of this subject on ComicBook.com.

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