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The Flash: Rogues Team-up May Happen Soon, Plus Gorilla Grodd Updates
The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg talks about a potential Rogues team-up, Golden Glider, Gorilla Grodd and more.
27 JAN 2015 BY MAX NICHOLSON AND ROTH CORNET
Yesterday, IGN's own Roth Cornet and a handful of other outlets spoke with
The Flash executive producer
Andrew Kreisberg about what fans can expect to see in the rest of Season 1. While the interview covered a range of different Flash topics (more to come!), a good chunk of it centered around Flash's enemies, particularly The Rogues and whether we may see them all come together at some point. Additionally, Kreisberg dropped a few hints about
Peyton List (Tomorrow People) as Lisa Snart -- aka
Golden Glider -- and other metahumans set to appear this season... Plus, we'd previously spoken to him on the likelihood of
Gorilla Grodd.
Rogues Assemble!
So far, The Flash has introduced several of the comics' classic Rogues, but how long before we see them all come together as a team? "We're going to do something with all the Rogues," Kreisberg confirmed. "I can't promise it'll be this season, but we know that the original Flash series, if they had gotten a second season, both [John Wesley Shipp and Mark Hamill] have told us it was going to be a giant Rogues episode, so... that sounds like a good thing for maybe us to do what they didn't get the opportunity to do."
He added, "I think this season is really about introducing them all. We have episode 16, which is going to have
Captain Cold, Heat Wave and Lisa Snart -- Golden Glider. Obviously we've got the Trickster (Hamill) in episode 17, and those dailies are incredible."
Golden Glider is Hot and Cold
Speaking of Golden Glider, Kreisberg also talked about casting List as Lisa Snart, Cold's sister. "That was another no-brainer. I didn't work on Tomorrow People, but I was working with Greg [Berlanti, Kreisberg's co-executive producer on The Flash] while it was going on, and Peyton is that rare breed of being so unbelievably gorgeous, but then also being so unbelievably talented. She was just right at the top of the list. She's also really funny, so it felt like she would really fit in there with [Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell] -- especially the two of them, the history that they have and the shorthand and in-jokes and the camaraderie. If you were going to throw somebody in there, it would have to be somebody like Peyton, or they were going to get blown off the screen."
Peyton List in Tomorrow People
As to how Lisa will get along with Cold and Heat Wave, Kreisberg said, "She stands toe to toe with the two of them. It's a really fun relationship. It's watching [Captain Cold] trying to be a good big brother to his slightly psycho younger sister, and watching her manipulate Heat Wave -- and Dominic's willingness to sort of be a dumb lug for love, I can't say enough about him. He loves playing the part, and the three of them together, it's so much fun to watch. You haven't really seen that anywhere in live-action, sort of watching all the villains team up. Both of our shows, we have Team Arrow and Team Flash, but watching the Rogues form and watching the complexity of those characters and the caliber of actors that we've gotten to play them, you can envision an episode where you're just following them, and you're not bored."
More Metahumans Incoming
The Flash's latest episode will see the debut of the Pied Piper, played by Smash's Andy Mientus. His character, of course, is a non-metahuman, same as Cold and Heat Wave. But which metahumans can fans look forward to seeing in the next few episodes? "We've got a bunch of metahumans coming up," Kreisberg said. "We've got Peek-a-Boo in episode 12, and Firestorm in 13, and Weather Wizard the real Weather Wizard."
Britne Oldford will play Peek-a-Boo, aka Shawna Baez, and
Liam McIntyre will play Weather Wizard, aka Mark Mardon, in episode 15.
As for Firestorm, Victor Garber will play Dr. Martin Stein, joining Luc Roderique as Jason Rusch and Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond -- all of whom are alter egos of the atomic superhero. Interestingly, Kreisberg noted that they originally planned for Garber to show up in the premiere. "Greg, Marc and I actually worked with [Garber] on Eli Stone," he explained. "There is actually a scene in episode 13 that was in the pilot. We were going to have Barry on the train home from Starling City coming to Central City, and we were going to show him on the train and meeting Martin Stein. But we just decided for time and budget that we didn't quite need it. But even back then we were saying we should get Victor. So this has always been in the back of our minds. I don't know what kind of stars we were born under, but it feels like every time we have one of these amazing parts, our first choice somehow agrees to do it."
Is Gorilla Grodd in the Works?
Finally, during the recent TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, we spoke with Kreisberg with a small group of reporters and got some major hints about Gorilla Grodd being on the show, but given the obvious difficulty in bringing that character to life, are we anywhere close to seeing a hyper-intelligent, telepathic gorilla on TV? "You're close-
er!" laughed Kreisberg. "One of the things I was so excited about with the old Flash show was getting to see Gorilla Grodd. But you look back and realize there was no way they could have pulled that off." But now? "[We are] living in a world where you can see Gorilla Grodd come to life." In other words it looks like we'll be seeing Grodd, particularly given Kreisberg's recent tweet.
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