Film Independent At LACMA To Host “An Evening With Greg Berlanti” Nov. 12

Fans of Arrow and The Flash will get to see Executive Producer Greg Berlanti at a special event on November 12. Here’s how the event is described. Tickets go on sale TODAY at 12pm, and you can purchase them (and get more details!) at the Film Independent website.

Writer/director Greg Berlanti comes to the Bing to discuss his latest series work, Arrow and The Flash, both based on Silver Age DC Comics characters and both of which he co-developed and produces for the CW. Arrow gives a hard-scrabble look at the life of billionaire wastrel Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), whose inadvertent imprisonment on a deserted island – he ends up there after the boat he was on with his dad capsizes and sinks – turns the newly returned to civilization heir into a masked, crime-fighting vigilante; it’s Berlanti’s take on the venerated DC Green Archer, who was retro-fitted and turned into a snarling, anarchic good guy. Berlanti’s view on The Flash is another piece on TV ret-conning; here Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is still the scarlet speedster (he was introduced to CW audiences in an Arrow episode). But rather than the happy-go-lucky Justice Leaguer who seemed to race through the streets solving crimes without the burden of an inner life, Allen/Flash suffers from an origin story that includes a dad who may have been a criminal and an incident in his youth that leaves him without parents. Working as a research scientist for a private firm – the STAR labs of the comics – in Central City, he becomes the Flash and is on the run to piece together the unknown parts of his past as well as to prevent the scourge of crime from overwhelming his home.

Berlanti will sit for a conversation after a viewing of “Going Rogue,” an episode from The Flash featuring the introduction to one of the best known villains from Flash’s Rogues Gallery, and will also present sneak preview clips from upcoming episodes of Arrow and The Flash.