Could Booster Gold be getting a movie, after his Syfy series failed to make it to the pilot stage?

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, DC's Legends of Tomorrow executive producer Phil Klemmer ruled out the possibility of Booster appearing in the show's first season -- and suggested that there's something greater in store for Rip Hunter's famous father.

“I wish I could tease a Booster thing but, you might have to wait a good long while at least on our show,” said Klemmer. “Perhaps Booster is being groomed for bigger things." THR followed up with speculation that Booster could be featured in a movie -- which isn't the first time the rumor has circulated.

Long before Suicide Squad was announced, comics-industry news and gossip site Bleeding Cool claimed that the Squad was one of a number of smaller DC properties being groomed for feature films. The idea, at the time, was that top-tier Justice League members could have the blockbusters with $200 million budgets, while lesser-known DC properties could provide fodder for relatively inexpensive mid-budget action films that would help keep the DC brand alive without necessarily laying out the $300 million-plus that Disney is currently spending to make two Marvel movies a year. Later, ComicBook.com heard very similar things, but we didn't have anything beyond what Bleeding Cool had already heard, or a secondary source to corroborate it. That THR has made this remark, though, lends it some additional credence given their place in the film industry.