The Flash has just arrived in cinemas. It's an action epic that sees not just the first major cinematic outing of the Flash character, but Michael Keaton's return to the big screen as Batman.
However, The Flash is also one of the best recent examples of a film project that has been stuck in Hollywood limbo since before many of us were born.
We can recall watching a worn VHS tape of a hokey The Flash TV show in the early 90s. It turns out a movie based on this character has been in stop-start development since way before that series was even first broadcast back in 1990.
This tale starts back in the late 80s when Teen Wolf writer Jeph Loeb was roped-in to write a screenplay adaptation. 30 years later, and with a fistful of failed attempts under its belt, we finally have a The Flash movie to watch.
Most of the folks in the cinema will never know it took this long. And we bet some of the movies that spent years, or decades, in cinematic limbo are a mystery to you too. Here's a look at some of the biggest names that took an absolute age to hit the big screen.
10 movies that took forever to get made
