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Update: August 20, 2014
Greg Finley Cast as the Villain Girder in The CW's THE FLASH
The CW have cast Star-Crossed alien Greg Finley as DC Comics villain Girder, Zap2It reports. It was previously announced that the villain will come on board the series in a recurring role, as someone who used to bully young Barry in the schoolyard. Now, Woodward is “a grinning lunkhead who loves destruction,” an “unstoppable force… Who can transmute any part of his body into solid steel.”
In the comics, his powers came from being dunked in molten metal tainted by S.T.A.R. Labs experiments. In the TV series, S.T.A.R. Labs's reactor malfunction (seen in Arrow and then again in The Flash's pilot) is seemingly responsible for all of the metahuman activity in Central City. Tony Woodward, Girder's real name, joins Plastique, The Weather Wizard and Captain Cold as villains from the comics known to be coming to the TV show. The Flash debuts on October 7 on The CW.
STAR CROSSED Actor Greg Finley Cast as the Villain Girder in The CW's THE FLASH
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Update: August 8, 2014
Robert Knepper's The Clock King to Appear in THE FLASH
The time has come for a major Flash-Arrow crossover — and this one’s going to be a royal pain for Barry Allen. Robert Knepper will reprise the role of William Tockman (aka The Clock King) in Episode 7 of The Flash, TVLine has learned exclusively. The Clock King is the first villain to show up in both Starling and Central City, having faced off against Oliver and company in Arrow‘s Season 2 episode “Time of Death.”
But wait, it gets worse; The Clock King won’t be working alone! “We wanted to give Barry a real challenge… TWO bad guys!” says executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, adding that Barry will be “fighting both a new enemy and one of our scariest and most successful Arrow villains in The Clock King.” No word yet on who that other villain might be, but if he (or she) is in league with The Clock King, Barry’s got his work cut out for him.
Another villain will be added to the show. In episode six, the recurring character of Tony Woodward aka Girder will be introduced, according to TV Line. Here is a description of the character: “Woodward was a bratty steelworker who upon being dunked in a vat of molten metal that had been tainted by S.T.A.R. Labs waste emerged as a mass of iron, impervious to most anything.”
ARROW's Robert Knepper to Reprise the Clock King Role in THE FLASH
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Update: August 8, 2014
Clancy Brown Cast as General Wade Eiling in THE FLASH
The Flash is going deep into the DC mythology. The CW's Arrow spinoff has tapped Sleepy Hollow actor Clancy Brown in a pivotal recurring role, THR has learned. He will first appear in the fifth episode. Brown will play General Wade Eiling, also known as The General, the head of a black ops army team pursuing Plastique (Kelly Frye) in the hopes of using her as a human weapon. Described as a tall and imposing man, with "a face carved from years of duty," Eiling is fanatically intent on protecting American interests around the world and may have ties to a central Flash character.
To those familiar with DC, the character of Wade Eiling has been featured in the comics and in several animated series, including Justice League Unlimited (voiced by J.K. Simmons), as a sometimes ally/sometimes nemesis of the Justice League and Amanda Waller. He also has ties to the Suicide Squad.
Brown will next appear in 2016's Warcraft and was the voice of Lex Luthor in several animated properties. Fun fact: Brown voiced the villain, Parallax, for The Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti's 2011 film The Green Lantern.
Clancy Brown Joins the Cast of The CW's THE FLASH as General Wade Eiling
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Update: July 29, 2014
Kelly Frye to Play Plastique in The CW's THE FLASH TV Series
It was just days ago that we learned that DC supervillainess Plastique would be heading to The CW's upcoming The Flash. Now, E! Online has learned that the character of Bette Sans Souci will be portrayed by actress Kelly Frye. Having first appeared in Fury of Firestorm #7, Plastique was primarily a villain against Captain Atom and sometimes Firestorm (who could potentially appear in the series as Robbie Amell has already been cast as half of the nuclear man). The character also has had ties to both the Justice League as well as the Suicide Squad and made a previous live-action appearance in the eighth season of Smallville. There, she was played by Jessica Parker Kennedy.
E! describes the TV version of Bette Sans Souci as a bomb disposal expert in Iraq who, following exposure to the energy released by the S.T.A.R. Labs meltdown...now has the ability to turn any object she touches into an explosive device. On the run from the shadow forces in the U.S. government trying to turn her into a human weapon, she finds an ally in fellow metahuman The Flash.
In the comics, Plastique was also a member of the Suicide Squad, a team that appeared fairly regularly throughout the second half of Arrow's second season and which is being groomed for a potential spinoff series, according to actor David Ramsey, who also revealed that the Squad will see more action in Season Three as Lyla Michaels, Diggle's ex-wife and current love interest, will be in charge of A.R.G.U.S., the organization that oversees it. The Flash premieres October 7 on The CW. Look for Frye to make her debut in the fifth episode of The Flash.
Kelly Frye to Play Supervillainess Plastique in The CW's THE FLASH TV Series
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Update: July 18, 2014
ARROW and THE FLASH to Have Two-Hour Crossover Event
Not long ago, The Flash and Arrow showrunner Greg Berlanti told reporters that he hoped to get to crossovers between the shows and their characters sooner rather than later -- and today, the other shoe dropped. Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg confirmed to TV Guide that the two CW series, based on DC Comics superheroes, will cross over for a two-hour event across their respective eighth episodes.
Assuming there are no skip weeks, that would place it at November 25 and 26 for The Flash and Arrow respectively. If there are programmed skip weeks, it would likely be in early or mid-December. Barry Allen made his first appearance on Arrow in the second season's eighth episode last year, titled "The Scientist." That episode aired on December 4. The show's midseason finale, "Three Ghosts," continued that storyline and aired on December 11.
Kreisberg, who works on both series, said that most of the crossovers will be fairly low-key at first, but that this event is larger in scale. "Episodes 8 of both shows, Arrow and Flash, are going to be a two-hour crossover event," Kreisberg told TV Guide. "[Also], in Episode 4, Felicity [Emily Bett Rickards] is going to come to The Flash."
Andrew Kreisberg Confirms ARROW and THE FLASH to Have Two-Hour Crossover Event
Greg Finley Cast as the Villain Girder in The CW's THE FLASH
The CW have cast Star-Crossed alien Greg Finley as DC Comics villain Girder, Zap2It reports. It was previously announced that the villain will come on board the series in a recurring role, as someone who used to bully young Barry in the schoolyard. Now, Woodward is “a grinning lunkhead who loves destruction,” an “unstoppable force… Who can transmute any part of his body into solid steel.”
In the comics, his powers came from being dunked in molten metal tainted by S.T.A.R. Labs experiments. In the TV series, S.T.A.R. Labs's reactor malfunction (seen in Arrow and then again in The Flash's pilot) is seemingly responsible for all of the metahuman activity in Central City. Tony Woodward, Girder's real name, joins Plastique, The Weather Wizard and Captain Cold as villains from the comics known to be coming to the TV show. The Flash debuts on October 7 on The CW.
STAR CROSSED Actor Greg Finley Cast as the Villain Girder in The CW's THE FLASH
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Update: August 8, 2014
Robert Knepper's The Clock King to Appear in THE FLASH
The time has come for a major Flash-Arrow crossover — and this one’s going to be a royal pain for Barry Allen. Robert Knepper will reprise the role of William Tockman (aka The Clock King) in Episode 7 of The Flash, TVLine has learned exclusively. The Clock King is the first villain to show up in both Starling and Central City, having faced off against Oliver and company in Arrow‘s Season 2 episode “Time of Death.”
But wait, it gets worse; The Clock King won’t be working alone! “We wanted to give Barry a real challenge… TWO bad guys!” says executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, adding that Barry will be “fighting both a new enemy and one of our scariest and most successful Arrow villains in The Clock King.” No word yet on who that other villain might be, but if he (or she) is in league with The Clock King, Barry’s got his work cut out for him.
Another villain will be added to the show. In episode six, the recurring character of Tony Woodward aka Girder will be introduced, according to TV Line. Here is a description of the character: “Woodward was a bratty steelworker who upon being dunked in a vat of molten metal that had been tainted by S.T.A.R. Labs waste emerged as a mass of iron, impervious to most anything.”
ARROW's Robert Knepper to Reprise the Clock King Role in THE FLASH
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Update: August 8, 2014
Clancy Brown Cast as General Wade Eiling in THE FLASH
The Flash is going deep into the DC mythology. The CW's Arrow spinoff has tapped Sleepy Hollow actor Clancy Brown in a pivotal recurring role, THR has learned. He will first appear in the fifth episode. Brown will play General Wade Eiling, also known as The General, the head of a black ops army team pursuing Plastique (Kelly Frye) in the hopes of using her as a human weapon. Described as a tall and imposing man, with "a face carved from years of duty," Eiling is fanatically intent on protecting American interests around the world and may have ties to a central Flash character.
To those familiar with DC, the character of Wade Eiling has been featured in the comics and in several animated series, including Justice League Unlimited (voiced by J.K. Simmons), as a sometimes ally/sometimes nemesis of the Justice League and Amanda Waller. He also has ties to the Suicide Squad.
Brown will next appear in 2016's Warcraft and was the voice of Lex Luthor in several animated properties. Fun fact: Brown voiced the villain, Parallax, for The Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti's 2011 film The Green Lantern.
Clancy Brown Joins the Cast of The CW's THE FLASH as General Wade Eiling
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Update: July 29, 2014
Kelly Frye to Play Plastique in The CW's THE FLASH TV Series
It was just days ago that we learned that DC supervillainess Plastique would be heading to The CW's upcoming The Flash. Now, E! Online has learned that the character of Bette Sans Souci will be portrayed by actress Kelly Frye. Having first appeared in Fury of Firestorm #7, Plastique was primarily a villain against Captain Atom and sometimes Firestorm (who could potentially appear in the series as Robbie Amell has already been cast as half of the nuclear man). The character also has had ties to both the Justice League as well as the Suicide Squad and made a previous live-action appearance in the eighth season of Smallville. There, she was played by Jessica Parker Kennedy.
E! describes the TV version of Bette Sans Souci as a bomb disposal expert in Iraq who, following exposure to the energy released by the S.T.A.R. Labs meltdown...now has the ability to turn any object she touches into an explosive device. On the run from the shadow forces in the U.S. government trying to turn her into a human weapon, she finds an ally in fellow metahuman The Flash.
In the comics, Plastique was also a member of the Suicide Squad, a team that appeared fairly regularly throughout the second half of Arrow's second season and which is being groomed for a potential spinoff series, according to actor David Ramsey, who also revealed that the Squad will see more action in Season Three as Lyla Michaels, Diggle's ex-wife and current love interest, will be in charge of A.R.G.U.S., the organization that oversees it. The Flash premieres October 7 on The CW. Look for Frye to make her debut in the fifth episode of The Flash.
Kelly Frye to Play Supervillainess Plastique in The CW's THE FLASH TV Series
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Update: July 18, 2014
ARROW and THE FLASH to Have Two-Hour Crossover Event
Not long ago, The Flash and Arrow showrunner Greg Berlanti told reporters that he hoped to get to crossovers between the shows and their characters sooner rather than later -- and today, the other shoe dropped. Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg confirmed to TV Guide that the two CW series, based on DC Comics superheroes, will cross over for a two-hour event across their respective eighth episodes.
Assuming there are no skip weeks, that would place it at November 25 and 26 for The Flash and Arrow respectively. If there are programmed skip weeks, it would likely be in early or mid-December. Barry Allen made his first appearance on Arrow in the second season's eighth episode last year, titled "The Scientist." That episode aired on December 4. The show's midseason finale, "Three Ghosts," continued that storyline and aired on December 11.
Kreisberg, who works on both series, said that most of the crossovers will be fairly low-key at first, but that this event is larger in scale. "Episodes 8 of both shows, Arrow and Flash, are going to be a two-hour crossover event," Kreisberg told TV Guide. "[Also], in Episode 4, Felicity [Emily Bett Rickards] is going to come to The Flash."
Andrew Kreisberg Confirms ARROW and THE FLASH to Have Two-Hour Crossover Event
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