Earlier this season, the producers of The Flash offered up a little stunt casting by reuniting Prison Break stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) and Heatwave (Mick Rory), respectively. Miller and Purcell have both signed on to reprise their roles in the potential Arrow/Flash spinoff that currently lacks a title.
While speaking to journalists at WonderCon last weekend (via Comic Book Resources), The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg hinted that the recent episode in which Captain Cold discovered Barry Allen’s secret identity was already leading up to Cold’s role in the spinoff.
“I think what you’ll see on both shows is we’ll be building up to the spinoff,” explained Kreisberg. “As much as Flash and Arrow are connected, Flash and Arrow and the new show are going to be interconnected, so you’ll be seeing the evolution of some of these characters. And obviously, that was part of the decision to have Snart find out Barry’s identity, because we knew the trajectory that those characters would be going on and how they’d be playing off of each other.”
Kreisberg added that “there’s some great scenes coming up between Wentworth [Miller] and Grant [Gustin] in episode 22 which is further evidence of Snart’s changing character and where we’ll find him in the new show.”
The words “changing character” seem to suggest that Cold won’t be a full fledged villain on the new show. And while a full heroic turn seems unlikely, it may indicate that Cold will be more of an antihero going forward.
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Additionally, Kreisberg hinted that Barry Allen’s friends on The Flash may soon become aware of their potential futures.
“What will be cool in the last half of the year is you’re going to hear a lot about the future, and you’re going to hear about certain people’s futures,” said Kreisberg. “And I think that in a way is more interesting than going to the future because then it becomes a question of, ‘Well, is it true? Is this person telling you the truth?’ And if they are telling you the truth, can you do anything to change it?”
“So a lot of the characters are going to hear about where they end up, and a lot of these last five or six episodes are going to be about whether or not you’re going accept that or you’re going to fight against it,” continued Kreisberg. “And I think that, for us, is the more interesting drama than going to the future and seeing flying cars.”
The Flash Season 1 resumes on Tuesday, April 14. The untitled spinoff series will likely run in early 2016 if The CW picks it up.
