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Arrow's Felicity Smoak and Ray Palmer to Guest-Star on The Flash Together

Felicity Smoak and Ray Palmer are set to guest-star in an upcoming episode of The Flash.

26 JAN 2015 BY ANTHONY COUTO

Producer Andrew Kreisberg has confirmed that Arrow's Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) and Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) will guest-star on an upcoming episode of The Flash.

Speaking to Variety, Kreisberg said that Felicity and Ray will appear in Episode 18 of The Flash's first season, which is aptly titled "All-Star Team-Up." Kreisberg indicates that the episode will justify Felicity's earlier appearance (in episode four) on The Flash as more than "just a gag," saying, "It really was integrated into the story. When you reach what’s going on in ‘The Flash’ at that point in the season, Barry is really at a crossroads. Having Felicity come by exactly when he needs her really plays into the whole storyline."

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Emily Bett Rickards.

As for Ray Palmer -- the scientist who comic book fans know as The Atom -- Kreisberg says that the science of STAR Labs will give the character a logical reason to pop up on The Flash. "It’s fine because as [producer] Marc [Guggenheim] said, Ray Palmer is all about technology and STAR Labs is all about technology. We get to see Ray so happy to be in STAR Labs… With Cisco [Carlos Valdes] and Ray, they’re new best friends. The STAR Labs team is going to help Ray further his ATOM project.”

"All-Star Team-Up" -- The Flash: Season 1's eighteenth episode -- is expected to air on The CW in March.


http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01...ay-palmer-to-guest-star-on-the-flash-together
 

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The Flash: The Pied Piper is Coming and He's Out for Blood

We've got the scoop on what you can expect from this week's episode of The Flash and the introduction of Pied Piper.

26 JAN 2015 BY ROTH CORNET

Warning: We discuss some aspects of the upcoming episode of The Flash "The Sound and the Fury"...


The Flash will introduce a new classic comic character this week in the form of the show's version of Pied Piper. After a confrontation with Captain Cold and Heat Wave, Barry Allen and Team Flash (are we calling them Team Flash yet?) will come face-to-face with Dr. Wells' golden-boy/ideal employee-turned menace to Central City Hartley Rathaway (Andy Mientus), who has returned bent on revenge after being...negatively impacted by the particle accelerator explosion (we won't say how, for now).

Another Non-Metahuman Villain

"Like many of the comic book characters, they sometimes are a little bit silly," Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters today at an event previewing "The Sound and the Fury" when asked what The Flash producers wanted to bring forward in the character that fans may not expect.

"The Pied Piper dressed very flamboyantly," Kreisberg continued. "And would literally play his pan flute and warp people's minds. We wanted to do something a little bit more grounded."

The Flash's Piper can manipulate sound waves. He is not, however, a metahuman.

"He's got one of our technology-based powers like Captain Cold," Kreisberg said of the character. "They hadn't really gone up against anyone like him before. We wanted them to go up against someone who was brilliant - a genius. Someone that they really had to outwit; which was different because a lot of times it's Barry having to either outrun or out-speed the villain. This one was complicated in that we had to establish things very early on, like how important Wells was to the team. It really becomes a chess match between Rathaway and Wells with Barry as the pawn."

Might Pied Piper Have a Larger Role on the Series?

As to the casting, Kreisberg says that he and his fellow Flash producers were fans of Andy Mientus' work on Broadway (in Les Miserables, among other plays) and hope that the character can continue on the show. "When he came in we said he was evil Harry Potter," Kreisberg laughed. "We booked him for two episodes and we're hopeful that he'll come back."

Pied Piper has a redemptive arc in the comics, and it's possible that the series mayfollow that trajectory - eventually. We'll have more on that post-episode.

Take a look at a clip from the upcoming episode via Grant Gustin's recent interview on Live! With Kelly and Michael.



Pied Piper Knows Things

As we've seen from the marketing materials, Hartley Rathaway is out for vengeance, but more than that, he poses a threat to the team as a solid unit. He knows things about their collective and individual pasts - as well as their present - that could rock the foundation that they've build. That's all we'll say for now, but we'll have plenty more from Kreisberg on what you can expect from The Flash moving forward.


http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/27/the-flash-the-pied-piper-is-coming-and-hes-out-for-blood
 

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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."

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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.





http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01...up-may-happen-soon-plus-gorilla-grodd-updates
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