Just a day after announcing the show is being picked up, the CW has launched an official Twitter presence for the Flash TV show, @CW_TheFlash — with a profile teasing Grant Gustin in the mask and a preliminary logo for the show. (via Flash TV News)
Via The Hollywood Reporter the CW has officially picked up the Flash TV series!
DC Comics-inspired The Flash was considered a lock from the minute it was announced last year. From Arrow producers Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns, star Grant Gustin (Glee, 90210) earned rave reviews for his role as Barry Allen/The Flash in two Arrow episodes this season.
The pilot also stars…
Candice Patton as Iris West
Central City Police:
Jesse L. Martin as Detective Joe West
Rick Cosnett as Det. “Eddie” Thawne (I’m betting it’s an alias)
Patrick Sabongui as Captain David Singh
S.T.A.R. Labs
Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow
Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon
Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Wells
… and John Wesley Shipp in a mystery role. Hartley Rathaway was mentioned in casting news, but no announcement was made. Whether these two items are connected remains to be seen.
It’ll be great to have the Scarlet Speedster back on the screen. It’s been nearly 10 years Bart Allen (Kyle Gallner) made his first of just three guest spots on Smallville, 10 since Warner Bros. started developing a live-action movie, and more than two decades since the 1990-1991 live-action Flash TV show starring John Wesley Shipp.
The CW also picked up iZombie, an adaptation of the quirky Vertigo horror/comedy series by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred. Gotham was announced earlier this week. There’s going to be a lot of DC/Vertigo joining Arrow on the screen this fall!
Congratulations to everyone involved in the show!
This volume of TEEN TITANS ends where it began, in the ultimate battle with Harvest! The Titans find that Harvest’s plan is even more convoluted (and diabolical) than they had even dreamed. Can they defeat this threat…can they even survive? That’s where we join the Teen Titans for one more adventure in their current incarnation, in TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #3!
LIGHT SPOILERS ONLY
Flash #187 (1987-2008 Wally West series) arrives in DC’s digital catalog at ComiXology and elsewhere:
“The Thinker has plugged himself into the Flash’s brain! Can the Fastest Man Alive out-think the Thinker and free himself? Even if he does, he’s still got Blacksmith and the Rogues to worry about! “Crossfire” part 4.”
Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins, Doug Hazlewood, with a cover by Brian Bolland.
DC has settled into posting one Flash issue every two weeks since they finished Impulse (not counting the annuals), twice the speed of the original run. Barring a speed-up or a “Flash 201” style mega-release (neither of which would surprise me if the Flash TV series gets picked up, which we should know any day now), they’re about 2 years from filling in the whole series
Following back-to-back weeks with new Flash issues hitting the stands, the new writing team of Van Jensen and Robert Venditti sat down with Newsarama last week to talk about some of the major introductions made and threads introduced.
Be warned, the two go into some spoiler-level detail if you have not read the last couple issues. For more on Wally West, his parents, Future Flash and more, follow the jump!
This Annual gives us an intro to a very much alive Wally West…and it throws in another very familiar name as well…as Venditti and Jensen set the stage for the “Future Flash” arc with a shocking turn for Barry Allen. Something is very wrong with the future Barry…
LIGHT SPOILERS ONLY