Variety is reporting that production on The Flash, starring Ezra Miller has been pushed back, and won't start until late 2019. That means the film won't be in theaters before 2021. Aquaman will be in theaters near the end of the year and next Spring will bring Shazam! and Wonder Woman 1984.

In releasing the information on The Flash's being stalled by the Hollywood Still Force, Variety hinted that Warner Bros./DC Comics may be moving forward without Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as The Batman. I'm not sure what is up with Cavill. Schedule conflict, poor performance. There's been no word on a sequel to 2013's Man of Steel. Affleck is currently in rehab - and that is may be preventing him from continuing as The Dark Knight. I thought I read or heard some buzz that the insurance may be a hang-up for Warner Bros.

Setting aside that I would prefer Grant Gustin as a big screen The Flash; and that Tom Welling should have made a Superman film, I'm concerned about Affleck. Then The Batman.The DC films seems to have taken on the dark tone of Batman. Christopher Reeve is a hard act to follow. But hampering DC icons with angst and real-world problems like Peter Parker, just doesn't work for me. Maybe that works for Clark Kent. But a millionaire-philanthropist-playboy? What I liked about Wonder Woman is that that never came up. She was idealistic. She looked at our world with wonder. She believed. I hope Aquaman and Shazam! keep that spirit.

I remember once that Clayton Moore said something about not being seen smoking or drinking in public. The Lone Ranger had a list of guidelines for the character and for the radio and television stories.

"Kids nowadays aren't so quick to worship heroes. The world is a lot more complicated; we don't seem to believe in absolute good and evil - white hats and black hats - anymore. It's fashionable to think of virtue and honor and bravery as naive, outmoded emotions. Deep down, I believe that people still cling to those ideals. When I first appeared on television as the Lone Ranger, Jay Silverheels (Tonto) and I used to do a lot of public appearances. Years earlier, when George W. Trendle created the Lone Ranger for the radio, he gave his writers a code of behavior that the Lone Ranger and Tonto must live by. Jay and I were heroes to millions of kids, and to avoid disappointing them, we lived by Trendle's original rules."

- Clayton Moore

There is a story that the late Jay Thomas told on The Late Show with David Letterman. Every Christmas, Letterman would have a decorated tree with a giant meatball on top. He would invite Thomas on the show to knock the meatball off with a football. Thomas would throw the football to knock the meatball off. Then he would tell the story of working in radio and doing a life broadcast, or remote, at a car dealer with Clayton Moore. After the live broadcast, Thomas was Moore's chauffeur to the airport. Thomas' car was cut off in traffic by another motorist. Thomas chased him down and confronted him. The driver scoffed, asking Thomas who they would believe.

I get chill bumps when Thomas relates how Clayton Moore, in full The Lone Ranger costume rises out of the backseat of Thomas' beat-up Volvo and tells the motorist in his deep, rich baritone, "They'll believe ME, citizen."

I want my superheroes and my actors who play my superheroes to be more like THAT.