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John Wesley Shipp Describe la relación de Barry con Jay Garrick en "The Flash"
Por Russ Burlingame 30/09/2016

When Jay Garrick first arrived on the scene in the season two premiere of The Flash, his relationship with Barry Allen didn't immediately shift into teamwork mode.

Barry, burned by a false "mentor" in season one, didn't trust Jay and set about trying to verify his wild stories about a mutiverse. While Jay eventually became a valued member of Team Flash, Barry's skepticism later turned out to have been pretty well-founded. Eventually, "Jay" turned out to be Hunter Zolomon, the villain known as Zoom, and before he could be apprehended, he killed Barry's father, Henry Allen.

That doesn't take John Wesley Shipp, who played Henry for two seasons, out of the mix entirely, though. Shipp, who played Barry Allen in the 1990 version of The Flash, showed up in the season finale as the true Jay Garrick, who had been held in an identity-concealing iron mask all season long as a prisoner of Zoom's.

Promotional photos have revealed that Barry and Jay will work together in the second episode of the upcoming third season, but during an interview with ComicBook.com, Shipp revealed that Jay might be an alternate Earth's version of Henry Allen, but he's not the same guy -- especially as it pertains to his relationship with Barry.

"Where [Henry] would be very nurturing, Barry would come to him when he wanted to be vulnerable, Jay doesn't know from that," Shipp told ComicBook.com. "Jay knows that right here and right now, you want to be a superhero. Okay, it's big boy rules. I look like your dad, sorry about that. Jay does not have any emotional investment in Barry, does he? He has an emotional investment in the Speed Force and in maintaining his legacy and making sure this kid doesn't screw it up."

Describing the relationship as "a very different temperature" from the warmth demonstrated by Henry in the first two seasons, Shipp said that his version of Jay (the fake one was played by Teddy Sears) almost has more in common with the version of Barry he played in 1990 -- but aged up 25 years -- than he does with Henry.

"Whereas Barry did and would lay his head on Henry's shoulder, there's none of that. Hey may have the impulse, but he's not going to get that from Jay," Shipp said. "Jay's like 'Man up. This is what the deal is, and I don't want you screwing it up. I've been where you are and here's the dangers.'"

Shipp told us that as Henry Allen, he channeled his own feelings about Grant Gustin and the rebooted series, saying that the support Henry showed Barry flowed from his own feelings of wanting Gustin -- and the series -- to succeed.

"Now it's a whole new thing," Shipp said. "I'm playing a character that's skeptical. The jury is out; I don't know what his motivations are. Is he interested in being a superhero, or is he interested in jerking things around to suit his own emotions and temperament every time something doesn't happen the way he wants it to?"

He'll find out soon; Shipp's first episode of The Flash season two airs in less than two weeks.

Supergirl airs on Mondays at 8 p.m.; The Flash on Tuesdays at the same time, Arrow on Wednesdays, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow on Thursdays. The Flash will debut its new episodes on The CW starting October 4; Arrow, October 5; Supergirl, October 10; and DC's Legends of Tomorrow October 13.


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El Flash de John Wesley Shipp: "Jay es mi versión de Barry, 25 años después"
Por Russ Burlingame 02/10/2016


When the producers of The CW's The Flash cast John Wesley Shipp, TV's original Flash, in a mystery role two years ago, most fans figured that it had to be one of two things: he was Henry Allen (Barry's father), or Jay Garrick (the Golden Age Flash from the comics).

Turned out, after a fashion, he was both. Jay Garrick is the Earth-3 doppelganger of Henry Allen, and he's his own world's Flash. That piece of information came out when Shipp was revealed to be the "man in the iron mask," a prisoner of season two villain Zoom who had been obscured by a helmet all season long.

Recently, Shipp joined ComicBook.com for an interview in support of next week's season premiere of The Flash, and revealed that Jay's relationship with Barry is very different from the one he had as Barry's dear ol' dad.
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But the thing everybody wants to know: does Shipp think his version of Jay had the same adventures as his version of Barry did back in the '90s?

"I figured Jay is my version of Barry, 25 years later, essentailly. So I went back and I watched a couple of episodes of the 1990/91 version to kind of remind myself what I did," Shipp told ComicBook.com. "[Jay] is much more reminiscent of my Barry Allen from 25 years ago than my Henry Allen. I went back and I was amazed how much attitude my Barry Allen had in some situations. I went back and I picked up that thread and I brought it forward 25 years, and tried to weave it in. I think that's fun for the audience, too -- that they will see elements of my Barry Allen in my Jay Garrick."

While Shipp will miss the warm heart-to-heart conversations his character had with Barry as much as almost anybody, he acknowledged that from a dramatic point of view it made more sense to have a clean break from Earth-1's Henry Allen when he started to play Jay Garrick on the show.

"Grant Gustin's Barry Allen is the speedster of the show, so everything is discussed in terms of how it affects Grant's Barry," Shipp explained. "When the iron mask comes off, and he sees essentially his dad, that's kind of like a one-two punch because it's his dad but it's not. If the iron mask comes off and it was Henry by another name, what would be the interest in that? In conjunction with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, we wanted to make Jay very different from Henry."

And while fans celebrated Shipp's "return from the dead" when the mask came off and it was revealed that not only is there another version of Shipp's character out there, but that this version will be a speedster and carry on the legacy of The Flash elsewhere in the show, Shipp says his co-stars are just as excited by the notion.

"When Grant and I were running lines and I was being Jay, he just put his head down and started laughing," Shipp told us. "I said 'What's up?' and he said 'It is so cool watching you play this.'"

Supergirl airs on Mondays at 8 p.m.; The Flash on Tuesdays at the same time, Arrow on Wednesdays, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow on Thursdays. The Flash will debut its new episodes on The CW starting October 4; Arrow, October 5; Supergirl, October 10; and DC's Legends of Tomorrow October 13.



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Matt Letscher sobre el giro del Flashpoint de Flash (el dolor de Barry es la 'alegría' de Eobard), enfrentando a la Legion of Doom vs. Legends
Por Matt Webb Mitovich / 28 Julio 2016, 1:53 PM PDT

Matt Letscher will be spending a lot of time in that Reverse-Flash suit this fall, having joined The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow as a series regular while also playing a role in The Flash‘s Flashpoint arc.

The good news on that front is that he now has a supersuit to call his own, having previously “shared” one with The Flash‘s Tom Cavanagh.

“I did get my own suit this year, so I hope they put it to good use,” Letscher tells TVLine. The original Reverse-Flash suit “was built for Tom, who is probably two inches shorter than me and a lot skinnier, so you can only imagine the sausage casing it felt like when I tried to get into that!”

Letscher first got word that he would be needed this fall back in February, just as he was seeking a new “home” during pilot season. “It was pretty exciting,” he recalls. “Having not only worked on The Flash before, but having worked with Greg [Berlanti] and Marc [Guggenheim] and Andrew Kreisberg on Eli Stone before it, anytime I get a call from them, it is very welcome.”

On Legends, Letscher’s sinister speedster will be helping lord over the Legion of Doom, which is also composed of Captain Cold (played by Wentworth Miller), Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) and Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) — though it’s not as if they will tool around time as a fearsome foursome. “We’re not going to be driving around in our Legion of Doom-mobile together or grabbing lunch,” the actor laughs.

As for whether the Legion makes camp in a swamp-based hideaway (as in the Challenge of the Super Friends cartoon), we can only hope. After his Legends role was announced, Letscher says, “A friend sent me a picture of the old Legion of Doom headquarters, saying, ‘Ha-ha — you live in a helmet in a swamp!'”

Turning flash-flashpoint-reverse-flashto The Flash, Letscher agrees that the Season 3 trailer shown at Comic-Con was plenty “dope,” though he was a bit surprised to see the fresh footage of him weaved in so quickly. (When I suggest that they probably wanted Eobard in the trailer to officially dub Barry’s new existence “Flashpoint,” he concurs, saying: “That’s like a classic [Andrew] Kreisberg moment for me, such a great literal highlight to the comic books. It was a lot of fun to see it play out.”)

As suggested by said trailer, Letscher affirms that Reverse-Flash “never misses an opportunity to taunt Barry,” especially as his adversary tries to make sense of the alternate reality he spawned by going back in time to save his mother’s life. What is Eobard’s larger role in Barry’s emotional odyssey? “I can say that he’s definitely central to the overall problem, and that Barry needs him,” Letscher carefully shares.

And Eobard in turn needs Barry… for a good, bad-natured laugh. “To see Barry in that much eventual pain,” Letscher says, “causes him a great deal of joy.”



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The Flash: vistazo exclusivo behind the scenes a la S3
Por Ed Gross 03 Oct 2016 03:30

In the annals of DC Comics, the "Flashpoint" storyline (in which Barry Allen transverses time to save the life of his mother, murdered before his eyes when he was a child by the Reverse-Flash) has universe-wide effects and triggered the company's New 52. The repercussions of the same event are apparently just as significant on the TV version of The Flash, as will be revealed during season three as well as the superhero series Arrow, Supergirl and DC's Legends Of Tomorrow.

Taking time from what seems to be an insane year of storytelling (beyond "Flashpoint" there is the four-part crossover with the other series, as well as a musical crossover with Supergirl), executive producer Aaron Helbing reflects on what went into the decision to take on what he calls a "herculean" task.

It would seem that starting things off with the "Flashpont" story is creatively exciting, but also, in some ways, a major pain in the ass in that you're screwing up the universe and having to put it back together again.

As writers we try to tell the best stories we can. Sometimes that involves us painting ourselves into a corner and when we do that, that's where great ideas come from. We kind of relish the challenge, to be honest. And I definitely don't think we hold back on anything. Everything is on the table at all times. Every character, every storyline. The beauty of The Flash is we can do things like "Flashpoint." We can have Barry travel back in time and make interesting decisions. When you have a show and a character with those abilities, basically anything is possible. When we introduced the multiverse, the sandbox got even bigger and there were more interesting things in there that we got to play with. And the actors have a lot of fun at the same time. When we did our Earth-2, Iris was a little different, Joe was a little different, a lot of the characters were different. Then when we do a "Flashpoint" storyline, there's a distinction with a difference, again, with the characters. That kind of revitalizes a lot of people. As storytellers we get to continually go into these interesting worlds with these interesting characters who are similar yet slightly different, and it just makes the storytelling that much more interesting and exciting, I think.

In some ways it's almost like an ability to reboot the show whenever you feel like.

Exactly. And we're really excited this season, because we get to introduce Kid Flash. We introduced Wally West last season, and there would be a tendency on some shows to make him Kid Flash right away. What I love about what we get to do here, and what [executive producers] Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg basically always wants to do, is get to know the character first. What's his or her emotional journey? We know we're going to get there at some point, but we need to get to know who these characters are first and let the audience discover the ins and outs of the characters. Then we get to bring in someone like Kid Flash.

Last year we gradually got to see Wally move to the point where he wanted to help people, so it's interesting now to see him get that opportunity to do so as a speedster.

Seems to be a West family gene that provides this innate desire to help people, put yourself before others and do good. Wally had a difficult childhood, his father wasn't around and his mother was dying, but of course he still was doing the right thing. He was just doing it in not so savory conditions. I mean, when we first meet him and he's drag racing, you think, "Oh, this kid is just a troublemaker." In reality, the reason he's doing it is from an emotional place of, "I have to take care of my mom." So, that's something that we're proud of and we're really excited that we got to tell that story. Now, as he evolves into Kid Flash, we get to dig even deeper into his character and his innate heroism.

In working on something like "Flashpoint," is there a way to describe what the writers' room is like?

It's not a small task. Greg and Andrew basically know exactly where they want the season to go. We get together and take a few weeks every year before the season begins to figure out, okay, what do we want to do? What is Barry's emotional journey? Before we get into the action, the pieces and all the villains and everything, what's Barry's journey? What's Iris' journey? What's Joe's journey? What's every single character's journey? Where do we want to take them? When you have a ton of writers with passion for the show and passion for these characters, anything is possible. Everything's always on the table and it becomes kind of like a Herculean effort to slowly figure out, "Okay, we can't do that yet. We've got to take that away." We're basically taking a gigantic piece of clay and trying to sculpt the best storyline and the best emotional journeys for each character.

"Flashpoint" doesn't last the entire season, does it?

No, but the impact and the various decisions are going to reverberate throughout the entire season. It's the reason that villains like Dr. Alchemy and Savitar are a part of the show. We liken it to when you have a perfect, pristine vase that you break. Even if you put it back together, there are always going to be those cracks. It's never, ever going to be exactly how it was. For example, when we meet The Rival in episode one, he'll have an impact in episode two. This guy, Edward Clariss, remembers everything that happened in "Flashpoint." All of the pieces that we set up in "Flashpoint" are going to play out throughout the entire season. It's going to be something that Barry and his team are going to be grappling with and struggling against and trying to overcome.

Does it ever reach a point where people want to say to Barry, "You know, dude, every time we tell you not to do something and you do it anyway, it goes horribly awry?" That really seems to be an ongoing problem.

We approach these characters as living, breathing people who have emotions and their own opinions and who makes mistakes. Yes, eventually there will be a point where people will say, "Barry, this affected me and we need to talk about this." He isn't given a get out of jail free card.

How much of a concern is there over the other superhero shows being affected by "Flashpoint"? Obviously there is producer overlap to oversee these things, but the assumption is that there will be an impact on Arrow, Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow.

Yeah, definitely. Arrow for sure is impacted. Diggle is significantly impacted in his life personally. The beauty is, since Greg and Andrew are producers on all four shows, and we deal with [executive producers] Marc Guggenheim and Phil Klemmer and Wendy Mericle, we sit down and we talk about it an are pretty much on the same page. I think something special that you don't get to experience on a lot of other shows is how interconnected they all are. To me, as a fan of all of them, that gets me really excited. It kind of holds true to, in the comic book universe, when you're going to do something like "Blackest Night" that affects all of these characters and all these different storylines who are in their own stories, but they begin to overlap. It's the same thing with these shows.

And as if that wasn't enough, then you have to do the big four-show crossover.

It's the best problem to have, especially now with Supergirl on the CW. It's a challenge, but it's one of those challenges that you are kind of blessed to have. How often do you get to tell these stories across three-to-four nights of television? That's a very rare thing and I think we all are just kind of excited and honored that we get to do that, and that people really want to see all of the shows and how they're interconnected.

And then you're doing a two-part musical crossover between The Flash and Supergirl.

I don't even want to think about it, although because we're doing the crossovers, it's kind of like we're laying the groundwork for that. Obviously it's a challenge, but I think it's a challenge worth pursuing. They're always worth pursuing. That's the thing, you have to continue to challenge yourself. That's what we try to do on every single episode of The Flash and I know they try to do on Arrow and Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow. That's the beauty of just being able to tell these stories. We want to swing for the fences every time.


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'The Flash' Season 3 Preview: Candice Patton adelanta el 'Flashpoint'
Por Jolie Lash 03 Octubre, 2016 3:18 PM PDT

"The Flash" returns Tuesday night on The CW for its third season, and with it, the introduction of "Flashpoint."

Barry Allen ended Season 2 after making what will turn out to be a life-changing decision in more ways than one. He ran back in time and saved his mother from being killed by arch nemesis Reverse Flash, and in doing so, ended last season in a new present – one where both of his parents (Nora and Henry Allen) are alive.

With both of his parents in the picture in "Flashpoint," Barry didn't grow up with Joe and Iris West, and as Candice Patton told Access Hollywood on Monday, that means "Barry and Iris don't really know each other."

But that will change as "Flashpoint" begins to play out. So, for more details on what to expect from the new chapter in The CW's "The Flash," Access Hollywood turned to Candice for a few hints.

AccessHollywood.com: Did you guys have any idea where ['The Flash'] was going to go earlier this year … when you finished Season 2?

Candice Patton: No, I didn't. I think we knew that 'Flashpoint' was going to happen, but I don't think any of us had details of what that would look like, how long it would last -- any of those details. So we were all kind of pretty excited to get that first script. I think I got it around June or July and I remember reading it and thinking – it reminded me of the pilot with just so many exciting elements to the storyline. It gives us kind of a fresh jolt into Season 3.

Access: Did you get a chance to actually pick up the comic book 'Flashpoint'? As actors, sometimes you just want to go off the script and not influence yourself.

Candice: Right. Well, you know, I'd had 'Flashpoint' the comic book, I think since I started this job, so I was very familiar with it. And I have a 6-year-old nephew who's seen the animated version, so I've seen all of those and read them and I knew ours was quite different.

Access: As an aside, since you mentioned it, do you get to watch 'The Flash' with your [nephew]? That's so cute. They must freak out knowing that their aunt is Iris West.

Candice: It's probably the coolest part of this job and I say that all the time. I do these conventions or going to San Diego Comic-Con, you meet families and what they love so much about the show is, yes, it's a great show, but it's a show that they can watch with their son or their daughter or their grandmother or grandfather. And so for me, as an actress on this show, it makes it really special that I can watch this with my nephew. He can enjoy it. He loves superheroes, and it's really cool for him to have an aunt that's, you know, hanging out with superheroes all day (laughs).

Access: Do the kids that meet you ever say the same thing? ... I'm just curious if you get any surprise comments [or ones] that have become a pattern?

Candice: Not surprising. I guess kids always say, 'You're The Flash's girlfriend.' So, I'm always Flash's girlfriend to little kids, which is fine. I'll take it.

Access: Many people are hoping that you will become The Flash's girlfriend [on the show]! Any chance we're going to get sort of hints of that in this episode -- in the premiere?

Candice: Yeah, absolutely. … What's really interesting about 'Flashpoint' is Barry and Iris don't really know each other. They went to school together, but they don't have a relationship or even a friendship with each other, so it's really nice in this first episode you see Barry and Iris really get to kind of meet each other for the first time and watch that iconic spark that they have in every timeline and every Earth kind of re-happen in 'Flashpoint,' so it's really, really special.


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Jefe de The Flash adelanta cambios seísmocos como resultado del Flashpoint
Por Natalie Abrams 03 Oct 2016 — 6:11 PM EDT

The Scarlet Speedster is in for a quite a shock when The Flash returns.

After defeating season 2 baddie Zoom, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) traveled back in time to prevent the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher) from killing his mom, changing the timeline akin to the seminal comic book storyline Flashpoint.

Unlike the global scale of the comics — where Aquaman was at war with Wonder Woman and Batman was Thomas Wayne, not Bruce — The CW super series is taking a more personal approach to the changes Barry has wrought. While Barry still has his powers (and living parents!), there’s a new savior of Central City, Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale). But former Team Flash members are wildly different — Barry no longer has a relationship with Joe (Jesse L. Martin) and Iris (Candice Patton), while Cisco (Carlos Valdes) is an ostentatious billionaire. (Confused about Flashpoint? Here’s everything you need to know.)

“Part of Barry’s journey is getting these people, who aren’t necessarily the best version of themselves, to find their inner hero,” EP Andrew Kreisberg tells EW, teasing a ticking time clock to Flashpoint as Barry’s memories of the old timeline begin to be replaced by the new.

But Flashpoint isn’t the only trouble in store for Barry this season. In fact, he’ll get a double dose of big bads with Doctor Alchemy and speedster Savitar, while Reverse-Flash also returns to serve as Barry’s conscience after his tinkering with the timeline — something that will resonate through the rest of the series. “Some things can be fixed, and then some things are broken forever,” Kreisberg says ominously. Kreisberg offers up teases on what’s ahead in season 3:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What does your world of Flashpoint look like?
ANDREW KREISBERG: It looks like our world. Most of the changes are to Barry’s life and him being at the nexus of these changes. He’s put all of the people that are in his life — Joe, Iris, Cisco and Caitlin — and spun them into different ways. Obviously, the comic books dealt with this giant war between the Atlanteans and the Amazonians, and Thomas Wayne being Batman. All of that stuff is not at our disposal, which is fine with us because we really wanted to do something personal to Barry having changed his friend’s lives and Barry coping with [the fact that] he may have traded his happiness for his friends.

Are there still ways you can nod to Flashpoint either indirectly or directly, like substituting Robert Queen for Thomas Wayne?
There’s a couple of nods to the comics in there. There’s actually some dialogue from the comic in the episode. But as always the movies are the movies and TV is TV, we’re not trying to infringe on their purview. The episode is a much more personal one. The stakes in the comic book in Flashpoint were global and the stakes in this episode are very much just about Barry, his existence and the people that he loves.

The way you say episode, it makes it sound like the Flashpoint timeline won’t last very long.
Well, it does and it doesn’t. It will be resolved, but there will be consequences that last throughout the season, and quite frankly, last throughout the series. That’s one of the things that we’re attempting to do is have the pitfalls of time travel be long-lasting and that some things can be fixed, and then some things are broken forever.

The idea of multiple timelines was brought up in season 1. Is the original timeline still running concurrently and we’re going to see what Barry left behind — and that they’re missing their own Barry Allen?
No, when he goes back into the past and saves his mother, it rewrites the timeline.

How does Barry feel about his choice ago change the timeline?
When we see Barry Allen, to start the season, he’s actually in a happy place, which is [somewhere] you don’t always see Barry Allen in. He’s now living in a world where his mother is alive and he’s taking it as, “I’ve finally got my reward for all of the suffering that I’ve gone through. This is my prize.” And he begins to see that the cost of him getting his happy ending might be too much to bear.

How will the new timeline start to affect Barry?
There is a time clock on the storyline. Whether or not Barry will allow Flashpoint to continue, or whether he will reset things again, and the costs of him doing either is the ticking clock in the episode.

Does Barry have his powers in Flashpoint?
He does.

Let’s turn to your new villain for this season. What can you tease about Dr. Alchemy and why he’s coming after Barry?
Well, we have multiple villains this season. Alchemy is just one of them and his agenda is tied into the other villains, who we’re still going to be a little bit mum about. [Editor’s note: This interview was completed before the reveal that Savitar was joining the series as another big bad.] We’d like to give the fans teases and as much as information as possible, but we’re so excited about the dynamic between the villains and their dynamic with Flash, and the rest of the team. We really want to play cards down for now, because the surprises are going to be worth the wait.

So maybe there’s somebody familiar under that mask?
Next question.

Let’s now go through how different each of these characters are. As we saw in the trailer, Cisco’s an ostentatious billionaire. Why did you decide to go that route for Cisco?
It’s funny, it was something we talked about doing for Earth-2 with Cisco, that he was rich and a billionaire. We just had a lot of fun with the idea of seeing that version of the character. We learned a lot last season doing Earth-2 and watching the dichotomy between the characters, especially watching how different they could be, and having such an amazingly talented cast that can pull off multiple versions of these characters. It’s just always fun to have Barry have to interact with different versions of the people that he knows well, because the audience knows them so well. Because these characters are so strongly defined by the actors that portray them, that’s why it’s so much fun to get to see different versions of them. A selfish, rich, cowardly Cisco couldn’t be further from the Cisco that we all know and love, and that’s part of Barry’s journey is getting these people, who aren’t necessarily the best version of themselves, to find their inner hero, which he knows is in there because he knows them from another time where they are heroes.

We don’t know much about how different Caitlin is, because we really don’t see her in the trailer other than the blink-and-you-miss it scene where she is in a lab coat standing over Wally West, so presumably she is working at Ramon Industries. So what can you tease about how different this Caitlin Snow is?
That’s one of the fun pops that happens in the episode, so I don’t want to give too much away about that.

But is that right that she is at least working there?
Nope.

We know that Joe has had a falling out with Iris, and doesn’t have a relationship with Barry. Talk about the differences with him.
Again, I don’t want to get too much into the specifics of it, because that’s part of the fun journey of going through this journey to Oz with these characters. As you come upon them, the audience is discovering as they watch it what’s different and what’s the same. Suffice it to say, in some ways, Barry has sacrificed his relationship with Joe for his relationship with his birth family and that’s one of the challenges that Barry has to overcome in the episode.

Harrison is obviously the biggest question mark as he is every season. You’re not going to say much, obviously, but is it your goal to have him play an entirely new character every single season?
Not only am I not going to say much, I’m actually not going to say anything.

Will you say anything about Iris at least?
As Barry says in the episode, Iris is always Iris. So their relationship and their connection seems to be able to survive any changes to the timeline or any universe. There’s always something between them.

Whether inside the Flashpoint storytelling or outside of it, are we going to get to see more of Iris’s reporting side this year?
Sure.

We saw Reverse-Flash in the trailer at Comic-Con. What does his presence in the Flashpoint timeline mean?
Well, in a way, he represents Barry’s conscious, because Barry has messed with the universe to find his happy ending. He’s put in the awkward, and ironic position of having his greatest villain, the man who killed his mother, being the one to tell him, “This is wrong, you’re a hero and heroes don’t do this.” It’s a great way to have him interact with his singular greatest foe by having the villain essentially be on the side of the angels and be right.

If and when we get back to the original Team Flash, how might they feel if they learn that Barry did screw with their lives?
I think you’re going to have to wait to see how that all plays out.

Let’s talk about Tom Felton joining the show. What came first: creating this role or wanting to get Felton on the show?
Well, we’ve obviously always been fans of Tom’s. We’ve all seen him grow up from an amazing child actor to an amazing adult actor. Season 3s are typically when you add that character who comes in to shake things up, just in the same way we added Brandon Routh to Arrow in season 3. So, having Tom join the show and adding his energy, his delivery and his performance to our very tightly knit cast is definitely meant to help shake things up. We’re just getting our first set of dailies now on him and we really feel like it’s a giant success. It’s a great addition to the show. It’s something that we haven’t had on the show, a bit of an antagonist within the group, and Tom couldn’t be lovelier as a performer, and as a coworker. It’s a success for us both in front of and behind the camera.

You guys have made many, many Harry Potter jokes over the last two seasons. How are you going to handle those jokes now?
Tom Felton is portraying a character on our show, he’s not portraying Tom Felton. I think it’d be funny if Tom Felton actually joined the cast. [Laughs] I’m sure Cisco will continue to make pop culture references and we’re, generally speaking, not afraid to have a little bit of a meta-moment.

Talk about Wally West suiting up as Kid Flash.
We wanted to do something bold and start the season off with a bang, so we decided to get Wally in the suit. The circumstances of how that happens, well, you’ll have to watch to see. But Keiynan absolutely loved every minute of it and it was a real thrill for us to finally do it. It was amazing. Just in the same way that it happened on Arrow, when you get to season 3, all of the things that you said, “Oh, one day we could do this,” in the early days of the show, are really starting to come to fruition. Just in the same way Arrow eventually added Black Canary and Arsenal — characters that we were always excited to get on, but it always seemed like years away — having Kid Flash was something that we’d always wanted to do from the beginning, before we’d even gotten on the air, and certainly long before Keiynan ever came into our lives. Now, to finally see him there doing his thing is so exciting.

It’s been said that Katie Cassidy is going to be on The Flash again this season. What can you tease of her return?
Again, we don’t want to give too much away, but Katie will be back and it’s going to be fun and exciting — that much I can promise.

We saw Zoom appeared to be transformed into Black Flash in the finale. Are we going to be seeing Black Flash?
We don’t have any immediate plans for that. Obviously we did that on purpose and we love working with Teddy. He’s such an amazing actor and amazing person, and was so much a part of the success of this show last season. There aren’t any immediate plans for that, but you can’t keep a good Black Flash down. So, I’m sure we’ll be seeing him in the future.

What themes are you going to be exploring on The Flash this year?
One of the themes is what does it mean to have power and what you do with that power, and is power ultimately corrupting? That’s definitely one of the themes that we’re talking about.

Is there anything you can tease about this very highly anticipated four-way crossover?
We’re always trying to outdo ourselves. The first year we did the crossovers, they were very loosely connected and it was just between Flash and Arrow, and last year the episodes were connected, including the introduction of a few characters from Legends. So, this year, with all four shows up and running, it’s going to be a mammoth challenge both creatively and practically. As much as the fans are just excited to see everybody together, that’s what we’re most excited about. Just figuring out the right tale to tell that would necessitate needing Flash, Arrow, Supergirl and Legends to team up. What could possibly be so bad that we need four shows worth of superheroes to take on? [Editor’s note: This.]

The Flash returns Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.



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Candice Patton sobre la nueva conexión de Barry e Iris en la S3 de 'The Flash': ella es su 'manta de seguridad'
Por Philiana Ng 7:00 AM PDT, 04 Oct, 2016

The Flash is rewriting history yet again.

The CW superhero drama kicks off its third season with an ambitious (and stellar) premiere on Tuesday, set entirely in a new timeline, “Flashpoint,” which was created by Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) after he traveled back in time to the day his mother died to save her from the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher).

The differences from the original timeline to the “Flashpoint”-affected world are stark. Barry and Iris West (Candice Patton) are mere strangers, Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) is Central City’s version of The Flash, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) is an alcoholic cop, and Team Flash is nonexistent. Instead, Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) is a playboy billionaire (sound familiar?), and Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) is an ophthalmologist.

Ahead of Tuesday’s anticipated return, Patton jumped on the phone with ET to dish on all things “Flashpoint,” the anticipated four-show crossover, and why it’s “essential” that a significant character will come out in the DC-verse.

ET: How exciting has it been for you, now three seasons into The Flash, to kick off the year in such an ambitious way with "Flashpoint"?

Candice Patton: The cool thing about the show is every season feels a little bit different, and I feel like we’re always topping ourselves. When I knew we were doing “Flashpoint,” it was really exciting. If you’re a fan of the Flash comic books, this is a huge thing. It was something that no one had ever seen with these characters. I’m super excited for [the premiere] -- I’ve been waiting for people to see this episode. It’s something that I’m very proud of, and it reminds me of the excitement I had from the pilot.

“Flashpoint” offers you the rare opportunity to play another iteration of your character. What do you want fans to know about Iris in this new world?

She’s a reporter, but she’s also fighting and working with The Flash of this timeline, which is her brother Wally West, aka Kid Flash. As it was in season one, where she was very much in the dark about what was going on, in “Flashpoint,” she’s very much in the thick of it which is very, very cool.

Even though “Flashpoint” Iris may not be permanent, that must have been gratifying for you to explore another shade to her.

I will say that out of all the characters, Iris is essentially the most similar to her original self and it’s a thing that we play with. No matter where we find her, she’s kind of a fixed point for Barry. She’s always the Iris he knows and loves. She’s kind of a safety blanket for him. But it is cool as an actor [to be] on a show where there’s different arcs and timelines to explore -- even if they are small things, just being able to change the character in a little way.

Barry and Iris have had years of history that we’ve seen over the past two seasons, but in “Flashpoint,” we see them meet and get to know each other. What can WestAllen fans look forward to in this timeline?

That’s the thing -- it’s different. They didn’t know each other in this timeline. They didn’t grow up together. Barry lives with his parents because they’re still alive. We know that they went to school together, but they don’t have a relationship. They barely have a friendship. There’s this really cute moment where Barry gets up the nerve to talk to her and essentially ask her out for the first time and try to recreate the romance that he had with her at the end of season two, so there’s a really sweet moment of them meeting each other for the first time.

When “Flashpoint” goes away, how do you think the repercussions of that affect Iris?

Obviously you can’t travel in time without there being some sort of repercussion of that, so everyone is affected by Barry’s decision to travel back in time and then to also travel back [to the present] and have Reverse-Flash kill his mother so he can return to the original timeline. Things are different. It’s small things, but it’s something Barry is going to have to deal with and grapple with for the rest of the season.

Looking ahead to the rest of the season, we’re looking forward to The Flash-Supergirl musical crossover. Are you excited to take part?

We’re all kind of just waiting for more details. We’re all super excited but also a little bit nervous. We haven’t done anything like this -- maybe Grant on Glee -- but that’s it. I’m excited to be a part of it. This is the rare show where we get to do a lot of different things as actors, and this musical episode is an example of that. I don’t know what my part in it will be, if it’ll be big or small, but whatever they throw at me, I’m willing to do.

Is the Arrow, Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow four-show crossover event this fall the biggest that we’ll ever see?

I think so! I think having four shows on the network now that we can cross over to, this is definitely the farthest and the biggest that we’ve been done. We’re in the middle of shooting The Flash [portion of the] crossover right now and reading the script, I was like, “Fans will love this.” You get to see some of your favorite characters interact with other characters, and it’s just cool. Seeing superheroes team up is always cool. I think people will be really happy.

We’ll learn that a major character from one of the four shows will come out as gay this season. What are your thoughts on that storyline and the show embracing the LGBT community by making that a central part of someone’s journey?

It’s absolutely essential. I think one character’s not enough. There should be more. I’m excited that they’re moving in that direction. I’m always an advocate of diversity. I think the more these shows look like the world we live in, the more tolerance there’ll be. Me being a black actress playing the ingénue and being the leading lady on a show like The Flash, that isn’t done very often. We’re changing the landscape of what ingénues look like, and television is very powerful. Any time we can do diverse casting, I think it’s for the better.

The Flash premieres Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.


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John Wesley Shipp tiene doble tarea en la season 3
Por Natalie Abrams 04 Oct 2016 — 11:00 AM EDT

John Wesley Shipp is going to be very busy this season on The Flash. Not only will he be back as Henry Allen for the Flashpoint storyline, but he’ll be suiting up again as The Flash.

For those who may not remember, the real Jay Garrick is a speedster who hailed from Earth-3 and acted as a protector of the multiverse, which is why he was jailed by villain Hunter Zolomon (Teddy Sears) and forced to wear an iron mask. But the Crimson Comet will be back this season — and he probably won’t be too happy that the Scarlet Speedster tinkered with time. EW turned to Shipp to get the scoop on what’s next:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was it like getting to step back into the role of Henry Allen for Flashpoint? And how different is he when he see him again?
JOHN WESLEY SHIPP: Well, for The Flash universe, it’s Flashpoint, for John Wesley Shipp, it’s whiplash. [Laughs.] I’m Henry, I’m Jay, I’m Henry again, now I’m Henry that never went to prison, but instead had a 14-year successful career as a heart surgeon. It’s a blast. We have these idyllic moments coming up. What would the Allen family had been like if Nora was never killed, if Henry was never convicted? They had this idyllic life, which Barry always wanted. We always feel this emptiness and this lack at the heart of Barry, because his family was so destroyed from the very beginning. So, what’s it like if none of that happened and he had what he always wanted? The larger theme being, what if we got what we say we want? What if we got what we always wanted, what would it really be like, what would really happen? It’s kind of a variation on the It’s a Wonderful Life scene.

What surprised you the most about Flashpoint?
Well, it’s our own version, first of all. I can’t say that anything surprised me about it. There will be ramifications going forward that will be dealt with on a couple of different planes, on a couple of different Earths, but it seemed very organic to me. With the interactions between Nora, Barry, and Henry, we all got to imagine down to our costumes what would it have been like if we had all grown as a happy family instead of what really happened.

Andrew Kreisberg intimated that Flashpoint doesn’t last long, but will you get to play Henry Allen again in the future?
I don’t know. All sorts of things have been posited as possibilities. I don’t know at the present moment that I will, but I know that something is screwing with the timeline, [and] it’s not going to be over with in one episode. I mean, we’re going to be dealing with the ramifications of that decision all season long, so could Henry possibly come back? I don’t know; Greg [Berlanti] at one point said, “There’s a possibility you may be playing Henry and Jay in the same episode, you don’t know.” So that’s the great thing about multiple Earths — anything’s possible.

What can you tease about Jay Garrick’s return?
Just how different Jay is. I’ve had a blast setting the template for Jay and making sure that his temperature is almost the polar opposite of Henry. Henry’s very warm, very emotionally invested in Barry and Barry’s well being. With Jay, it’s more like, “Okay, I’m the keeper of the Speed Force, you’re a new Flash, what are you doing? Yeah, I look like your dad, sorry about that. Big boy rules. So you want to be a superhero?” And if he sees something about to happen that he thinks might have negative circumstances, of course that raises the question in what ways would Jay intervene? In what ways would Barry go to Jay for advice? In those moments, we see two completely different characters relating to each other. I mean, Grant and I had to learn each other all over again from different character perspectives, which is a trip. We just started laughing sometimes, because it’s so different. Jay’s reactions to Barry are so different than the way Henry would react to Barry that Grant just starts laughing sometimes. [Laughs]

Will all that in mind, how will Jay feel about Barry having messed with the timeline?
Well, he’s real concerned about it. He’s very concerned about the decisions that Barry is making. He’s very concerned about how that will reflect on his legacy as the guardian of the Speed Force, which is how Jay seems himself, the original speedster, the original Flash. He’s very concerned about what Barry may or may not know about what he’s about to do, and when that happens, Jay is going to intervene.

There are new photos of Barry and Jay suited up, so are they teaming up to take down baddies this season?
We have three Flashes, don’t we? They wouldn’t put us all there unless they intended for us to work together on some level going forward. I can’t say any more about that. I’m being so careful. But Jay will be coming in and out through the season, so I don’t know what more I can say about that.

Is there anything you can say about facing off against the big bads this season?
In Flash lore, Jay certainly knows who Savitar is and what Savitar is all about, and certainly there’s going to be some overlap and conflict. Jay knows some things about Savitar that Barry doesn’t know, and that would be very useful for Barry to know.

Are we going to see Jay play a role in the crossover?
No, I think the crossover is already done. I think I come back for the midseason finale, but no, I’m not in the crossover.

Through seeing Jay play more of a stern mentor to Barry, will we get to learn more about Jay’s life on Earth-3, maybe even get to see Earth-3?
I hope so. In the most recent script, I found out something — and again, I can’t say what it is — but I found out something that I was surprised to learn, and I’m wondering what ramifications it will have going forward. We do learn more. To answer your question, yes, we do learn more about Jay and his life on Earth-3.

What has been your favorite part about this new season?
Just what I’ve touched on already, getting to know this young actor, Grant Gustin, who I’m so fond of both personally and professionally, having worked on such an intimate level as father and son, getting to know each other creatively from a whole different standpoint. Jay is not exactly what you’d call nurturing. Andrew Kreisberg set the template for me. I was talking about Jay’s temperature in the season finale last year, and I wanted to go at it with a certain temperature, and Andrew said, “You’re exactly right, you are under no obligation to make Jay Garrick likeable at the beginning,” which is a great deal of fun.

The Flash returns Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.



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THE FLASH Season 3: Entrevista con los productores ejecutivos Aaron Helbing y Todd Helbing
Por Tiffany Vogt 04 Oct, 2016

In the Season 2 finale of THE FLASH, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) made a pivotal decision to race back in time to prevent the death of his mother believing that one thing would ensure his future life would be picture perfect: both his parents alive and together, Iris would no longer see him as a brother and open that door to romance, and Barry would be free from being The Flash — the one everyone looked to when the world needed saving from all the villains out there. But just what if all those “wishes” came true? Would Barry be as happy as he assumes? Seeking a few answers, I chatted briefly with executive producers Aaron Helbing and Todd Helbing while at this summer’s Television critics Association tour about where Season 3 of THE FLASH finds our heroes.

That was a crazy finale in Season 2 where Barry (Grant Gustin) goes back in time to save his mom and it sets everything. And now Eobard Thawne (Matt Letscher) as the Reverse Flash could potentially be back as well. What can you share about where the story picks up?
AARON: Well Barry’s been living in the Flashpoint-universe for a few months and living his life as it should have been. And he stopped Thawne from killing his mother, so Thawne’s a little pissed.

How much are we going to see of Thawne initially. Is he right there in our face or is he going to be teased out a little bit?
AARON: You see him right away.
TODD: You see him.

Will we going to be spending a lot of time in this Flashpoint-universe? Like the entire season?
TODD: Not the entire season.
AARON: Not the entire season, but the effects of it are for the entire season.

So there will be a lot of ripple effects from it.
TODD: Yes.

Is Barry feeling any regrets about his decision, or is he going to feel like defiant like this was something he was allowed to do?
AARON: I think like any decision you make of that magnitude, over time you start to realize the consequences of any action. And this is no different.

So it will weigh a little heavier.
AARON: He’s going to feel it.
TODD: Yeah.

Where else are we picking up our characters then? Where are we going to see Iris (Candice Patton) and her dad?
AARON: Joe (Jesse L. Martin) is still a detective in CPD.
TODD: Iris is still an instigative reporter.
AARON: Iris is still at Central City Picture News, but their relationship is a little bit different. Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdez) is like a gazillionaire. He’s living life like a playboy in his 20’s would as a billionaire.

Does Cisco even know what his abilities are at this point?
AARON: No.
TODD: No because there was no trigger point for his abilities.
AARON: He’s busy just being a billionaire. And Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) is still a doctor and there’s Kid Flash (Keiyman Lonsdale) is out there.

He’s playing The Flash out there. How does Barry feel about that?
TODD: He feels fine.
AARON: He’s good with it.

He’s okay of somebody else takes on the hero mantle for a while then.
TODD: He’s so happy because everything that he ever wanted is now part of his life. I think the minute his mother was taken from him, he’d been thinking about “I wish” as any child would — “I wish I could have another day with my mom.” And now he’s also reunited with his dad, who died the last season, so he had that feeling as well. So right now, he’s so focused on just loving life and being able to be with his parents. That’s his primary goal.

For the viewers, we’re going to feel like this is a fake world and it’s going to be really weird for us to be inhabiting that world with him.
AARON: I think in the same regard, it was a different version when we went to Earth-2, but there was a familiarity. There were all the idiosyncrasies. I mean some of them were changed a little bit, but it’s them, but different. And we do the same thing in Flashpoint. It’s all of the characters you know and love. It’s just a slightly different version of them. So while things are a little bit different, it doesn’t take long for you to understand what those differences are, what it means to the world, and how it affects Barry. So it’s not going to feel like that much of a departure.

So following this theory, Zoom still exists then.
AARON: Yeah, I guess.
TODD: I guess. I mean, Zoom was an Earth-2 villain though. So Earth-2 hasn’t been affected yet.

It’s an interesting choice. It must be messing with your own head at a certain point.
TODD: Yeah. You start going down all these different timelines and at some point you’ve just got to be like: timey-whimey!

To see how complicated and intertwined the multiple timelines become and the ripple-effects down the timeline, be sure to tune in for the Season 3 premiere of THE FLASH on Tuesday, October 4th at 8:00 p.m. on the CW. You will see all your characters like you have never seen them before!



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Matt Letscher adelanta el Flashpoint y Legion of Doom
Por Linda Ge 03 Oct 2016

When Barry changed everything in the Season 2 finale of “The Flash,” he may have put himself into the position of needing help from his arch nemesis.

In Season 3, which starts Tuesday, The Flash (Grant Gustin) may need to seek the help of Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher), according to the actor who plays the DC comic book adaptation villain.

“‘The Flash’ finale, a lot of things did happen, and Barry changed it all at the very last second,” Letscher recalled. “Really where it leaves the Reverse Flash is pretty much where he was before, only now, Barry needs him. He needs him to help fix things.”

Also Read: 'Arrow'-'The Flash' Four-Way Crossover Villain Revealed

What needs fixing is a timeline which has been thrown into chaos since Barry made the fateful decision to go back in time and save his mother from the Reverse-Flash, a pivotal moment in his childhood.

The result is an alternate universe known from comic book lore as “Flashpoint.”

In this new universe, Barry’s parents are still alive and well, but his childhood best friend and love interest Iris (Candice Patton) barely knows who he is, and Cisco (Carlos Valdes) is the riches man in the world, but also a stranger.

With multiple timelines, alternate universes, doubles and doppelgangers running around, Letscher admits even he has a hard time keeping it all straight.

Also Read: 'The Flash'-'Supergirl' Musical Crossover Episodes in the Works

“I’m so messed up on what world is what and the physics of everything, I try not to think too hard about that stuff and focus on the scene in front of me and what I need there,” he said. “If I go down the timeline, multiple world wormhole, I’m just going to be lost forever.”

Things could get even more convoluted as Letscher pulls double duty on “The Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow,” where he will join a new version of the Legion of Doom, alongside “Arrow’s” Neal McDonough, as Damien Darhk and John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn.

Also Read: 'The Flash' Season 3 Trailer Reveals Flashpoint Alternate Universe (Video)

“It’s been interesting because they’re two very different shows,” he said of filming both shows simultaneously. “While they’re both ostensibly about people with superpowers and time travelers, ‘The Flash’ is still a very kind of intimate show. It’s a smaller show, it’s almost a family show. Whereas ‘Legends’ is this huge, expansive time-traveling, chaotic, vibrant show with a much larger cast and lots of things to take care of over the course of several timelines. It’s just much more complicated. It’s kind of fun to go back and forth, as this same guy.”

Letscher also confirmed he would be part of the big four-show crossover with “Arrow,” “The Flash,” Legends of Tomorrow” and “Supergirl,” but remained mum on details, though he did have a suggestion for how he could be incorporated into the planned musical crossover between “The Flash” and “Supergirl” in the spring.

Also Read: 'The Flash' Casts 'Harry Potter' Alum Tom Felton as Series Regular

“Nobody wants to hear me sing!,” he laughed. “I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it. Unless, maybe they’ll write me some sort of Reverse-Flash rap. Maybe I can be the real hip-hop element in this universe.”

“The Flash” airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.


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Candice Patton adelanta el romanve de Barry e Iris en la Season 3
Por Laura Prudom 04 Oct 2016

On The Flash, we hold these truths to be self-evident: Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is the "Fastest Man Alive," and he and Iris West (Candice Patton) are destined to be together — there's an honest to god newspaper from the future to prove it.

That knowledge has somewhat lessened the sting of the will they/won't they dynamic between the pair that might otherwise torture us, but Barry's problem has always been timing. In the Season 2 finale, after Iris finally decided she was ready for a relationship, Barry decided that he wasn't, and subsequently chose to run back in time and save his mother from being murdered by his nemesis, the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher), thus altering the entire course of his life — and the lives of everyone around him — and creating an alternate timeline known as "Flashpoint."

Because his mother never died and his father was never wrongly incarcerated for the crime, the Barry we meet in the Season 3 premiere is living with his parents, having never been taken in by Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) and raised alongside Iris.

In this new timeline, Iris and Barry are practically strangers, but as Candice Patton tells Mashable, that doesn't alter the powerful connection between the two of them. See what Patton has to say about the new season and the consequences of Barry's actions below, and make sure to come back after the season premiere airs for more intel on what we can expect from The Flash this season.

What is the biggest difference between the Iris we've gotten to know over the past two seasons and the "Flashpoint" version of Iris?

There isn’t much difference, but the biggest difference is that she doesn’t know Barry Allen, and you see this really great scene where they meet for the first time — Barry’s trying to get up the nerve to talk to her and they have this really cute first meeting. Barry’s awkward as ever and Iris is really intrigued by him, so it’s very sweet. The thing is … something we’ve been playing with over the seasons [is], no matter where we go, whatever timeline or whatever Earth, Iris is this fixed point for Barry.

What do you think is at the core of her character that's always a constant for you when playing her — do you feel like part of it stems from her feelings for Barry?

I think it’s her feelings for Barry and I think it’s also her inner moral compass; she has the courage to fight for what’s right and she’s fearless in doing that — she’s fearless in fighting for the people she loves… She’s essentially the same no matter where we find her, and that’s given her strength and determination to fight for what’s right.

You’ve had a chance to play several iterations of Iris at this point; how do you approach each new version?

In situations like Earth-2 it’s quite easy — the writing is there, the costumes are completely different, and when you put on a bulletproof vest it changes the way you walk and the way you feel and your toughness. For me, costumes are always the fastest way to change a character. And essentially it’s the writing, it’s what the writers choose to make different about a character.

What do you think will surprise fans most about Season 3, judging by what you’ve filmed so far?

I think fans will be surprised by what’s changed because of Barry’s decisions ... Time travel comes with consequences and that’s something that Barry’s gonna have to struggle with throughout the entire season. It affects all of his friends, all of his family, and there’s a bit of a weight on his shoulders because of what he’s done.

I rewatched the Season 2 finale ahead of the premiere, and the final scene between Barry and Iris is still so powerful, even after seeing it multiple times. How did it feel to finally get to play out that moment of intimacy after so many false starts between them?

It was amazing, and what was interesting about that scene was that we were under the gun — we had a neighborhood curfew to shoot that; it was the last scene of the day and so Grant and I didn’t even have time to really rehearse, we were like, “let’s just skip rehearsal and shoot it.” So it’s a cool moment as an actor when you trust someone so much that you can sit down and do that, and I think we got a great moment out of that, just talking to each other. The lighting was beautiful and it just reminds you of a comic book — our director did an amazing job of getting that really iconic shot.

Pretty much everyone in STAR Labs has had a brush with gaining powers in one form or another at this point, except for Iris. Would you like to see her with abilities somewhere down the line, or do you like that she’s the grounded one who gets to remain consistent?

I like that she’s the grounded one and I think on these shows - aside from Legends - you’ve got to have this human element to it, otherwise it just becomes a superhero team-up show, and we’ve already got one of those. I’m pretty happy just being Iris West, but I think if there was another Earth, it’d be cool for an episode or two to put on some leather and have some super powers — I think it’d be really fun.

Now that Supergirl is officially part of The CW superhero family and will be crossing over to the other shows this season, what do you think Iris’ reaction to Kara (Melissa Benoist) would be if they met?

I think they would get along famously - they have a similar quality in being kind of lighthearted girls next door, wanting the best for everyone. I think they would get along really well.

The Flash premieres tonight at 8 p.m. on The CW.



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Productor de ‘The Flash’ sobre el adaptar el Flashpoint y qué esperar de la Season 3
Por Jacob Bryant 04 Oct, 2016 | 10:51AM PT

At the end of last season of “The Flash,” Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) pulled one of the biggest no-no’s in the time-travel rule book: he went back and stopped someone from dying.

Said someone was Barry’s mother, Nora (Michelle Harrison), and her death has followed him ever since — his father was held in jail for years; he dedicated his first year as Flash to finding her killer; and he even returned to the scene of her murder once before just to say goodbye one last time. After his race with Zoom (Teddy Sears) at the end of season two, Barry made the choice to go back and stop the Reverse-Flash all those years ago. The result? Success. Or so it seemed.

Here, Variety chats with Todd Helbing, executive producer on “The Flash,” about Flashpoint, and where Season 3 is headed.

How is Barry enjoying his new life?

When we meet him, he’s been living this life for about three months and for him it feels like everything he ever wanted. While Barry has always been this optimistic guy on the outside, he’s had this void in his life since his mother died and his father was taken from him. To have this life with both of his parents alive, in that aspect, he’s completely fulfilled. The other life and other family he created with the Wests and the people of S.T.A.R. Labs is completely different. He begins to experience the ramifications of the choices that he made that created Flashpoint.

Season 2 went to a pretty dark place near the end, compared to the first season’s lighter tone. What tone can we expect in Season 3?

Yeah, we definitely realized it got pretty last season so Season 3 is going to be more tonally similar to Season 1. There are a lot of ramifications for what Barry did, but as the season goes on, he gets more of the pep in his step that he had in the first season.

Flashpoint is an epic Flash story. What was it like to adapt that storyline for TV?

It was a lot of fun. We always have the same challenge when we want to adapt any of the storylines from the comic books — obviously Flashpoint is this iconic story and there are a lot of characters in it that we didn’t have access to, so we put it through “The Flash” TV filter. To me, it was the most fun adaptation we have done so far. We knew pretty much at the beginning of Season 2 where we were headed and it just felt the most organic to spin into Flashpoint at the beginning of Season 3.

How do the Season 3 villains — Dr. Alchemy and Savitar — differ from Reverse-Flash and Zoom in how they affect Barry?

There’s kind of a two-pronged attack this year. Dr. Alchemy has this Philosopher’s Stone, which is the source of his power, while Savitar focuses more on psychological warfare, which is an aspect we haven’t explored before. You’ll see how they work together — once Barry thinks he has a handle on Alchemy, Savitar rears his ugly head. The two of them combined are this two-pronged attack that Flash hasn’t had to deal with before.

Last week, The Dominators were announced as the big bad for the epic four-show crossover later this season. Will you be laying the groundwork as early for this year’s crossover as you did in years past?

No, no. We’re not setting up another show this year thankfully, which was pretty difficult. It’s a story that begins in “Supergirl.” But we’re not burdened with setting up another show so that helps a lot. Now, we’re writing four episodes with however many characters that have their own set of problems, so that’s the new challenge, but also a lot of fun. It’s really like a three-and-a-half-to-four hour movie, which is pretty awesome.

“The Flash” Season 3 premiere airs tonight on the CW at 9 p.m.


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Aaron Helbing habla sobre 'Flashpoint,' The Rival & Barry Allen 'cortejando' a Iris West
Por Jolie Lash 04 Octubre, 2016 10:37 AM PDT

It's "Flashpoint" day! "The Flash" Season 3 premiere arrives Tuesday night on The CW, and it will give viewers a look into Barry Allen's new world.

While Barry (Grant Gustin) is heartily enjoying life three months from where things last left off -- with both of his parents alive (thanks to Barry saving mom Nora at the end of Season 2) -- there are unexpected problems to contend with. Central City has a new villain -- The Rival. And, Barry is also about to find out that when you change your past, it affects your future. The memories he made and the powers he got before he ran back in time and saved Nora will be impacted in "Flashpoint." And, of course, "Flashpoint's" Iris West doesn't really know who he is.

When Access Hollywood spoke with Executive Producer Aaron Helbing, he shared a deeper insight into Tuesday's new episode, addressing the problems Barry will be dealing with, and hinting at some of the nice things headed the way of our main character, including some sweet interactions with Iris West (Candice Patton).

AccessHollywood.com: Obviously we know from the episode description that came out that Barry's memory issues and his powers are going to start to be affected [in 'Flashpoint']. How is our poor Barry Allen going to take the news that those things are happening to him? It's got to be crazy enough going into a world that you don't recognize, but then things that you know and can do are changing – that's got to rock his world, right?

Aaron Helbing: Yeah, I mean, when he starts off, he's living the dream. I think he's essentially living what he's wanted since he was 14. He has his mom and dad and they get to be a family the way, in a way the first 10, 11, 12 years of his life were, and so everything is great except for his relationships are different, he doesn't really have a relationship with Iris or Joe because he didn't grow up with them, and so he's essentially strangers to them. When we first meet him, he's just living the dream, but there's Kid Flash so he doesn't need to be The Flash. And what we'll learn is as The Rival – this guy Edward Clariss, who's The Rival – starts terrorizing the city, there's always that innate heroism inside Barry and so he has to help, but as he helps, he does start getting hit with these memory lapses and his speed is more intermittent and so that's kind of something that he has to grasp with is, 'I have everything that I've ever wanted in this life, but at the expense of my other life,' and he has to figure out, can he continue on knowing that his relationship with Iris in the previous timeline is going to disappear, all those memories of his life with Cisco and Joe and Caitlin. What's worth it? Is it more important that I stay with my parents or do I have to go back? And it's something that he grapples with throughout the episode?

Access: Tell me about Todd Lasance coming in as Edward Claris. Obviously he was on 'Spartacus' … and 'Vampire Diaries,' recently too, but [tell me about] bringing him in and what kind of paces you're putting him through in this role.

Aaron: I love that we got to work with Todd again. [Editor's note: Aaron was a co-producer on 'Spartacus: War of the Damned,' which Todd was in] I loved him as Julius Caesar. I thought that he brought this incredible intensity to the character. … So being able to work with Todd again – especially in this role, because The Rival is, I don't want to say he's like Julius Caesar, but he does have that intensity because he wants to be the best no matter what and right now, standing in front of him, is Kid Flash, and then there's eventually The Flash, and so Todd brings this gravity and this intensity and this -- essentially like the feeling of being put upon and like someone has always tried to keep me down, and I'm not going to take it anymore, I'm going to prove that I am the best no matter what, and I feel like Todd just – he hits it out of the park every single take. It's amazing.


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El Flashpoint Crea una 'dinámica completamenmte diferente' para Barry Allen
Terri Schwartz 04 Oct 2016

Flashpoint is coming for The Flash, and big changes are afoot in the series' Season 3 premiere.

After Barry Allen changed the past and stopped Reverse-Flash from killing his mother in Season 2's finale, he created an alternate timeline where he has the happy life that was taken from him.

"When we pick up Flashpoint, Barry has everything he wants," Grant Gustin explained to IGN during a recent visit to The Flash's set. "He made this choice, consciously, and he's got Eobard locked in a cell and he's got the upper hand. It's a fun, different dynamic. ... It creates a whole different dynamic for Barry."

It also creates a whole different dynamic for the show. The Flash dabbled with different versions of the same characters in Season 2's visit to Earth-2, and the Flashpoint storyline will once again show a new mix on familiar faces. Danielle Panabaker was thrilled to find out what Caitlin is up to in Flashpoint (hint: it involves a new job), while Carlos Valdes said Cisco isn't quite as different as he might seem in the Season 3 trailers.

"I have to say some [fans] are concerned that the beloved Cisco that they've come to fall in love with and... grow with, they fear that he's gone or that he's changed in some way," Valdes said of Cisco's seeming shift into a disinterested mogul. "Some things don't change."

One big character shift is that, in this world, Iris has never met Barry -- a revelation that comes right after the two finally consummated their romantic interest in one another in the Season 2 finale. But Candice Patton warns that all hope is not lost for those who want Iris and Barry together.

"The cool thing is, even though they don't know each other, it's still this kind of destiny that they always find each other on whatever timeline, whatever Earth. There's something about Barry and Iris that they always seem to find each other and they always seem to have some sort of connection, which is really cool," she said.

The biggest difference between 2011's Flashpoint comic storyline and The Flash's take on it is, in the comics, Barry was unaware of what caused this new timeline to occur; here, he knows he's responsible for it. That also means he knows how significant it is to have time with his two parents as an adult.

"I've read Flashpoint, different renditions of it, I've seen the animated film, so I was excited to have the storyline where Barry could have both of his parents and we could just explore that. But I wasn't excited at all to revisit the murder of Nora Allen again in the finale," Gustin said, referring to the Season 2 finale. "We've done that scene three times at least."

Ultimately The Flash won't stay in the Flashpoint parallel universe forever, and when it reverts back to its original timeline there will be a number of ripple effects.

"All these Flashpoints caused many repercussions, and we're dealing with them every single day," teased Jesse L. Martin. "Every single day something new pops up. It's like, is that from Flashpoint? We're constantly turning to Barry to ask him, 'Was that part of the old timeline? Or is this part of the new timeline?' We're never quite sure what's going to happen."

Added Patton, "We're all a bit different because of Flashpoint. Our relationships have been affected to some degree because of that, so we're also dealing with the interpersonal relationships between Team Flash, what's happened because of Flashpoint and trying to move forward with that and to continue to work at as a team to stop the madness that is happening in Central City."


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Wesley Shipp trae a Jay Garrick y a su mundo a la Season 3
Por Meagan Damore 04 Oct 2016

When “The Flash” Season 3 kicks off, star John Wesley Shipp will be a Man of Two Worlds. Thanks to Barry’s meddling with the timeline, Henry Allen is back alive in “Flashpoint,” but that doesn’t mean Jay Garrick is going anywhere. According to Shipp, both Henry and Jay will get caught up in the fallout of “Flashpoint” and all the havoc it will wreak on Barry’s world.

Speaking with CBR about the upcoming season, Shipp addressed the challenge of playing two different characters on the same show — a gig he calls “an extraordinary opportunity.” He also discussed the differences between his two fan-favorite characters, as well as Jay’s relationship with Barry, how some elements of Jay’s world will show up in “a very striking and crucial way” and whether or not Jay will have anything to do with “Legends of Tomorrow’s” Justice Society of America.
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CBR News: In what is quickly becoming a “Flash” tradition, you now play two characters on the show: Henry Allen and Jay Garrick. How would you describe your different approaches to these characters?

John Wesley Shipp: Well, I love this question. It’s an extraordinary opportunity as an actor. I mean, rarely in a superhero action-adventure context, are you presented with a creative challenge just like this. Henry and Jay — and I talked to [executive producer] Andrew Kreisberg about this from the beginning — it’s important that they be absolutely different. When the iron mask comes off, Barry sees physically his father, but he couldn’t be more different. In temperature, Henry was very warm, and Jay is very cool. Jay does not have the emotional investment in Barry obviously, clearly that Henry had. Jay is the keeper of the Speed Force, and he’s looking at this young kid with a certain degree of skepticism and wondering what he’s going to screw up and what he’s not, so that presents a real conundrum for Barry. You know, he just lost his father and that relationship, and here’s this guy that looks just like him, but he’s not going to get the same thing — at least, not right away from Jay.

In the “Flashpoint” timeline, it looks as though Henry has lived a full life with his wife and son. How has that impacted his character?

It’s a very sunny… I have to praise Kate, the costume designer. Look at the difference in the way Henry is even dressed. Everything is lighter. Everything is brighter. Henry has grown old as a successful heart surgeon, not as a convict. You have a whole different vibe going on there with Henry.
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On the flipside, you said that Jay will look at Barry with skepticism. Would you describe their relationship as contentious?

I wouldn’t say it’s contentious, but I would say that Jay — as the original speedster and as an older man — tends to think of himself as the guardian of the plain, the guardian of the Speed Force. And here’s this new speedster in town, who’s younger, who’s more impulsive, who’s rash, who maybe reminds Jay of how he was at the outset. He’s looking, and he’s watching very carefully to see how this kid — and I say kid, because that’s the way Jay views him — is going to carry on the tradition. Is he going to mess it up? What mistakes is he going to make that Jay was tempted to make, or perhaps did make? Where Henry Allen was that place that little boy Barry could come when he needed to be vulnerable, Jay is the person that reminds Barry that — if you want to be a superhero — it’s big boy rules, and that’s very different in temperature and in the relationship between the two.

Will “Flashpoint” impact Jay in any way?

Yeah! Well, Jay sees how Barry is about to deal with the different ramifications of “Flashpoint,” and Jay may or may not approve of what Barry is about to do. Certainly, if Jay thought Barry was about to screw things up or headed in the wrong direction, Jay would intervene. I think that’s what we have to look forward to very quickly as the ramifications of “Flashpoint” spin out of control.

Will we see any elements of Jay’s world on the show?

It’s a little early to tell. Right now, Jay comes in — oh, wait a minute! Of course you do! Yes! I can’t say, but yes. Yes, in a very striking and crucial way. That’s all I can say.

Famously, Jay is a member of the Justice Society of America, which just so happens to be appearing on “Legends of Tomorrow.” What are the odds that he’s familiar with the team?

I need to be very clear about this, because I was talking at the beginning about playing Jay and how it was a wide open canvas and how Jay is the head of the JSA — I was talking about the comic book world. I would welcome the opportunity. Certainly, they’re structuring contracts so that, if they so chose, they can move us like chess pieces across this wonderful comic landscape that Berlanti Productions has created with The CW. I have no indication at this moment that I would be crossing over, but I certainly would love to work with those guys. That would be a great challenge. But we’ll see! Who knows what they have up their sleeve?

Now that you’re a few episodes in, could you describe Season 3 so far in three words?

Oh, no — you’re asking the wrong guy! If Suzanne was on the phone, she’d probably laugh and say, “When has John ever described anything in three words?” You’ve stumped me on that one. I don’t know! I can’t answer that. I can talk about what’s exciting for me, but I’m not good at three words.
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Then let’s talk about what’s exciting!

Well, obviously, it’s playing two different characters in the same universe, one very different from the other. You know, I so respect and I’m so fond of — I’ve made no secret of the fact — of how fond I am of Grant Gustin and how much I respect him as an actor and how thrilled I am to see his version of Barry Allen having this success that mine just missed. I loved the Henry/Barry relationship; those were some of the richest moments I’ve ever had on television. Now, I get to learn him and he gets to learn me all over again from a completely different point of view that’s kind of blowing both of our minds a little bit, because it’s like running lines with two different people. You know, that’s what I’m excited about. How often do you get a chance to play two different characters in two different episodes back-to-back? That’s a great challenge for me, keeping Jay and — even though when Barry looks at Jay, he sees his dad — it’s clear that Jay is nothing like him, at least not at the outset.

When you played the Flash over 20 years ago, did you ever see yourself returning to the DC Universe?

Never. At that last scene with Mark Hamill in Southeast LA at 5 in the morning… I ripped those wings off [my costume] and threw them in the air and swore I’d never get back into another superhero suit. Never say never! Now, I will say this: there have been certain improvements in 25 years. For example… it’s not just one piece! There’s an under-spandex piece and an outer leather shell. The salient information here is that it can be washed. [Laughs] So that’s a real plus for me and everybody else! It’s also so much cooler. It’s funny — when I was being digitally scanned, they kept saying, “Are you hot? Do you want a drink of water? Are you okay?” I’m like, “Are you kidding? I could be in this for 24 hours and not complain!” After what I went through in 1990! No, it’s functional as well as decorative.

I’m glad it’s improved over the years!

Oh, yeah! I don’t need a cooling unit. Also, because there’s no cowl, and I can take that helmet off whenever I want, and I do as often as possible! It’s completely, completely different and more workable — which is good, because I’m 25 years older!


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The Flash: reveladas las repercusiones del Flashpoint
Por Natalie Abrams 04 2016 — 9:00 PM EDT

Warning: This story contains major spoilers from the season 3 premiere of The Flash. Read at your own risk!

What did you do, Barry Allen?!

When The Flash returned for season 3, the world was basically flipped upside down. For the past three months, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) has been blissfully living in this new timeline, in which his mother never died and he’s no longer the savior of Central City. Instead, Barry’s a simple CSI, letting Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale) save the day.

However, the former members of Team Flash no longer know Barry. Cisco (Carlos Valdes) is an ostentatious billionaire, having bought S.T.A.R. Labs from Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) years prior and turned it into Ramon Industries. Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker), meanwhile, is a pediatric eye doctor. The changes for the West family, though, are even greater. Joe (Jesse L. Martin) and Iris (Candice Patton) are on the outs, causing Joe to slack off at work.

When Barry’s memories of the new timeline start replacing those of the old, he’s forced to practically beg the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher) to kill his mother, thus resetting the timeline. Unfortunately, not everything went back to normal, with Joe and Iris’ relationship still tumultuous.

The reason behind Joe West’s divide from Iris in Flashpoint is never laid out during the episode, which likely means the reason in one timeline is probably the same as the timeline they now find themselves in. Here’s what Martin told EW at San Diego Comic-Con about the Joe-Iris estrangement: “The reason that Joe is the way he is when you see him is that he made a huge mistake with his daughter, with Iris, and it caused a huge rift between the two of them, and Joe doesn’t think they’ll ever get over it. It kind of sucks, it does, but it’s fun to play.”

Despite this big change, Patton told EW that the original Iris likely wouldn’t be upset by Barry’s decision to tinker with the timeline. “We watched Barry have his father murdered right in front of him, his dad’s doppelgänger shows up, so he was going through a lot at the end of the season,” Patton said. “I think Iris, more than anyone, would understand the pressure he felt to want to do something of change. I think she would be supportive.” Whether Iris would understand her relationship with her father now being nonexistent is another question.

Martin, however, believes Joe would have advised Barry against saving his mother. “You can’t change the past, you’ve got to let things be,” Martin said. “God knows what would happen if you just altered the smallest thing. I think Joe would be real practical about it that way.”

But Iris’ estrangement from her father isn’t the only big change. This timeline’s Edward Clariss (Todd Lasance) — who is seemingly not super-powered or The Rival here — is awoken in the middle of the night by this season’s big bad, Doctor Alchemy. Who is he? (Or she?) The prevailing theory is that new cast member Tom Felton, who joins the show as CSI Julian Dorn in episode 2, is actually Doctor Alchemy, though executive producer Andrew Kreisberg is staying mum.


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3.04 “The New Rogues” (25/10/16): WENTWORTH MILLER REGRESA COMO EL CAPiTÁN COLD; MIRROR MASTER Y THE TOP LUCHAN CON THE FLASH — Barry (Grant Gustin) continúa entrenando a Jesse (la estrella invitada Violett Beane) y cuando un nuevo meta-humano, Mirror Master (la estrella invitada Grey Damon), aparece en escena le deja que lo acompañe. Mirror Master ha hecho equipo con su vieja compañera, Top (la estrella invitada Ashley Rickards), y está buscando a Snart (Wentworth Miller) para igualar un marcador. Jesse se une rápidamente al caso pero desafía una de las órdenes de Barry lo que tiene desastrosas consecuencias. Stefan Pleszczynski dirige el episodio escrito por Benjamin Raab & Deric A. Hughes (#304).

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Todd Helbing adelanta peligrosas consecuencias del Flashpoint
Por Natalie Abrams, 10 Oct 2016

Barry Allen may have reversed Flashpoint, but that doesn’t mean everything is back to normal on The Flash.

After living blissfully in another timeline in which his parents were still alive, Barry (Grant Gustin) began to realize that he sacrificed everyone else’s happiness for his own, particularly when it came to the West family. Joe (Jesse L. Martin) no longer had a relationship with Iris (Candice Patton) for an unspecified reason — and when Barry returned to what he thought was his timeline, that was also the case. What’s really going on in this timeline? EW turned to executive producer Todd Helbing to find out:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: In both timelines, Iris does not have a relationship with Joe. First, are the reasons they’re on the outs in both timelines the same, and secondly, can you tease what’s going on there and how it’ll affect everyone?
TODD HELBING: It is not the same reason, but the reason why Iris and Joe don’t speak right now outside of Flashpoint is due to something that happened in season 2, but that’s all I can tell you.

Now that we’re back in the original timeline, have the outcomes of other past events we’ve seen changed?
So when Barry comes back and what he thinks he’s done is reset the timeline exactly how it was, as you saw at the end of episode 1, but there’s a slight difference. He’ll actually start to see the consequences with multiple people of creating Flashpoint.

Can you talk about some of the other effects of Flashpoint, including with characters like Cisco, who seems not to have a relationship with Barry there?
The STAR Labs team is all the same as it was before he left, but there are small things that have had different outcomes that ripple through our team. It’s kind of affected everybody one way or another. I don’t want go into too much detail and ruin the episode for people, but you’ll see how each character has been affected.

This reminds me of last season’s episode where Barry traveled back in time to ask Wells/Eobard for help, and when he returned he discovered that Pied Piper was now one of the good guys.
Exactly. It’s things exactly like that that have changed. But every time Barry went back in time, he wasn’t able to put it back exactly the way it was, but this is the first time that it has directly affected him and his friends and his family. So, that’s what you’ll see.

Doctor Alchemy is the new big bad this season. How does he compare to villains we’ve seen before, and what can you tease of his motivations?
Well, he is one of the first villains that’s not a speedster, so that automatically makes him different. But, he has this thing called the Philosopher’s Stone and what he’s starting to do is he has the ability to give people the powers that they had in Flashpoint. So, you’ll start to see how that affects Barry, especially, and the team and how that’s going to play out through the rest of the season.

Is Doctor Alchemy aware of the Flashpoint timeline, and if so, how?
Yes, he knows about it. He has memories of it.

Why has he decided to give people their powers back?
That plays into the long term plan and as the episodes go on, you’ll start to realize exactly why that is.

Tom Felton comes on as a rival CSI for Barry this week. Can you tease their dynamic and how Julian will fit into the show moving forward?
We always felt that Barry has this sort of freedom on the show as the only CSI investigator, to go out and get all the information that he needs to help him solve these metahuman crimes. So we felt, to complicate those matters, why don’t we give him a rival in his office space? That was really the idea behind bringing in Tom, [which] was to create this character who was a huge obstacle in Barry being able to get the information he needs that he normally was able to. So, it’s another consequence of Flashpoint. He comes out of it and now there’s this guy in his office who is the lead CSI and is thwarting his ability to get the information he needs to stop these metas.

Since he’s now the lead CSI and Barry probably has no recollection of him, how will that dynamic play out in the season? How antagonistic will it get?
Yeah, it’s very antagonistic. Julian does not like Barry and he thinks that there’s something off about him. Barry has a tendency to just disappear when he’s the Flash and go take down these guys, but Julian isn’t unaware of that. He knows it’s a problem and he knows that Barry’s gone and he knows that people just show up in the lab and to him it’s not cool. That’s not the way you do business. That’s not how you work as a CSI. So, that’s going to be a big issue with Julian and he becomes the huge antagonist to Barry right from the get-go.

Jesse Quick now has her powers. Can you tease what kind of hero she is and whether we’ll see all the speedsters, including Kid Flash, team up in an upcoming episode?
[Her powers] just sort of manifested, so she’s new at this. She doesn’t really know what it’s like to be a speedster and she doesn’t have anybody to teach her, so she’s going to come over and sort of learn from Barry. So, I don’t want to spoil too much stuff, but there will be some team-ups down the road that are pretty cool.

Will those team-ups include all three of them or are you specifically talking about Jesse and Barry right now?
At the moment, Jesse and the Flash.

Will we see Kid Flash further down the road, too?
Possibly.

We just saw a glimpse of the epic four-way crossover in the Legends of Tomorrow trailer. Is there anything you can tease about The Flash portion of the crossover?
That’s really just the first act of a three-act movie. It’s sort of where Barry learns of the Dominators and has to recruit all of the people. I’ll just say that there are some spectacular effects and action set pieces unlike any that we’ve done to date. I’ll also say that in last year’s crossover we were sort of setting up a spin-off, so story wise, we weren’t burdened with that and this really feels like one continuous story that is this epic television movie.

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Todd Helbing adelanta una liosa nueva realidad de Barry y la pelea familiar entre Joe e Iris
Por Vlada Gelman / 11 Oct 2016, 6:00 AM PDT

Barry Allen has broken the bond between Joe and Iris — and that’s just the beginning.

During this Tuesday’s The Flash (The CW, 8/7c), the titular speedster discovers that his time-hopping altered more than just the beautiful father-daughter relationship.

“Every single character has been affected,” executive producer Todd Helbing tells TVLine, adding that Barry’s friends and family “will certainly start to realize that things were changed.”

“It’s a hard concept to wrap your head around,” the EP continues. “It’s like, ‘What do you mean I was X, as opposed to Y, in that other timeline?’ They have to process that information, and then each of them reacts in their own way.”

Will Barry learn not to mess with his loved ones’ lives? What’s got the Wests on the outs? And is a surprise return possible post-Flashpoint? Read on for answers to those big Qs and more.

The Flash SpoilersTVLINE | What can you say about the source of conflict between Joe and Iris?
All I can say is that it’s something that was born in Season 2.

TVLINE | By changing the timeline, Barry is sort of responsible for whatever is causing this disconnect between Joe and Iris. How is he handling that burden?
Not well, at first… When he comes out of Flashpoint, there are a lot of things that have affected him personally. A big thing that he has to deal with for the rest of the season is, “What am I going to do here? Am I just going to go back in time and change things every time something is different? Or am I going to be a hero that deals with the consequences?”

TVLINE | Has Barry’s relationship with Iris also changed? Do the events from the end of the Season 2 finale still hold true for both of them?
Most of them. I think in the promo, we even show that he says, “I erased both times I’ve kissed her.” [Laughs] Everything, for the most part, is the same. Relationship-wise, they’re not starting from scratch.

TVLINE | Is there a shift in their relationship?
It’s not so much a shift with them. It’s a shift in that trifecta of Joe, Iris and Barry. Now it’s like, “I have the woman I’m in love with. She and I are starting this relationship, but there’s a huge problem because she and her father don’t speak.”

TVLINE | We’ll meet Tom Felton’s character, Julian, in the next episode. How does he fit in?
We realized Barry had all-access as the only CSI in that lab. When he investigated a meta attack as a CSI, he could use that [information] to help him stop these people as The Flash. But now he has this guy who is sort of his boss, and who is on to the fact that Barry has these weird disappearances. We’re really excited about this idea of having a workplace antagonist.

The Flash SpoilersTVLINE | What can you preview about Jay Garrick’s return this Tuesday?
At the end of Season 2, when we revealed who the real Jay Garrick was, it obviously had an emotional impact on Barry. What that provides us [with] is a lot of opportunity to have Jay Garrick return and give Barry advice.

TVLINE | Finally, is dead still dead in this post-Flashpoint world? Could Eddie or someone else that’s been killed in the past be alive?
Certainly, people that were taken care of in the past could still be around, yes. But the way we’re playing with the events that have happened up to this point… the villains were all taken down the same way that they were before.


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John Wesley Shipp sobre el regreso de Jay Garrick, la JSA y ese ajustado Supertraje
Damian Holbrook 11 Octubre, 2016 12:59 pm

The Flash's Jay Garrick (John Wesley Shipp) is back in Central City (and on Earth-1) this week and it's not just to run the fastest errands ever. Now that Barry (Grant Gustin) has made a mess of the timeline with his Flashpoint fumble, it sounds like the elder Speedster is stopping by to get the kid to put the brakes on his back-and-forths through his past. The fact that he looks exactly like Barry's late father, Henry Allen, should help the advice sink in, right? Here Shipp discusses his returns as both Henry and Jay, as well as what could be in the cards for the Justice Society of America member.

So congratulations. As Henry and Jay, you have so far been wrongfully imprisoned, held hostage and killed by Zoom, brought back to life and sent to another universe. Not to mention everything you went through as Barry on the original Flash series. This is quite possibly crazier than anything you ever did when you were on soap operas!
I have to tell you, it’s interesting that you bring up that comparison because people were talking to me about the intensity and the almost-protective quality of daytime TV fans. And there’s a real parallel there with the comic-book universe. When I go to these conventions, they’re very aware, and I’m very aware, that The Flash [character] was 50 years old when I got to it in 1990. And they are very protective in a wonderful way about the stories and the characters, and it’s been great to see the positive reaction that I’ve gotten. It’s crazy, isn’t it? Somebody on Twitter the other day just put a picture of me as Zoom [on Batman: The Brave and the Bold], Barry Allen, Henry Allen and Jay Garrick. It’s like, ‘Yeah, I’ve kinda been bouncing all over this universe, right?’

Exactly! And now, in just the first two episodes of the season, you get to bring back Henry and Jay.
It is remarkable. Within the context of a comic book action-adventure show, they have gifted me with a remarkable acting challenge because [executive producer] Andrew Kreisberg was very clear—and I agree 100 percent—that Jay and Henry have to be as different temperamentally as they look alike. So Henry, of course is very affectionate, very warm in temperature; Jay is cool, reserved, he’s not sure what this kid is up to. Jay sees himself as the keeper of the Speed Force, and is this kid going to mess it up? It’s pretty much that relationship. We had a blast shooting the Episode 2.

What brings Jay back?
You know we’re doing our version of Flashpoint which will have ramifications throughout the season, and without getting specific, Jay sees Barry about to take some actions that [impacts] Jay’s position as the head of the JSA and the keeper of the Speed Force. So, he catches up with Barry and they have a little come to Jesus moment about what Barry is about to do.

Well, someone needs to straighten him out a little bit.
You know, every now and then the kid’s got to be sat down and talked to. [Laughs]

And now you just mentioned that he’s the head of the JSA, and they are building a JSA on Legends of Tomorrow. Has there been discussion of you joining forces with those guys?
I need to be very clear about this because when I first started with announcing that I would be doing Jay Garrick, I made the comment that the palate is wide open because in the comic universe, Jay Garrick is the head of the JSA. That was interpreted as me saying that I would be on Legends. I have no indication at this point that it’s going to happen. Would I love to work with those guys? Would that be a trip? Absolutely! But, I have no indication at this point that it’s going to happen.

You mentioned the difference between these two characters, and we had such an emotional, affectionate, loving relationship between Henry and Barry. But now, you have to play this different character opposite the same Barry. How is that for you basically not getting to play that emotional level with Grant?
It is remarkable. It’s like when Grant and I were running lines for Episode 2, at one point, he just looked down and just starts laughing. And I said, “What?” and he said, “This is just such a trip, running these lines, playing this scene with you.” It’s a remarkable creative experience to get to know an actor all over again and that’s what it amounts to. Jay is, as I said, very cool in temperature, and he doesn’t have the emotional investment in Barry that Henry had, clearly. And yet, every time Barry looks at Jay, he sees his dad, and it’s that dissonance that causes "the feels," as they say. [Laughs]

We didn't get a lot of info about Jay's world at the end of last season because he was finally freed and then hopefully went back home. When we last saw him, he was trying to like leapfrog back to his Earth. Did he get there?
Well, I don’t really want to say too much about that. We certainly will find out very shortly whether he made it back, and if he did, what’s going on. And we will see him again. I am cleared to say that we will see Jay sprinkled through the season when he is needed.

Did they do any adjustments to the costume for you?
Yes! I didn’t know until the last minute that they were going to resurrect me as Jay Garrick last year. I would have stopped eating months before! So, in between the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3, I trained, I lost a few pounds, we took in the suit. Let me just say that I’m much happier with the Season 3 press photos that have come out than I was with the end of Season 2 photos. But that’s just an actor’s vanity, you know what I mean? [Laughs]

Well, you’re basically wearing a very unforgiving scuba suit and TV right now is filled with a lot of these young bucks wearing very tight leather. You want to represent!
And I have to take a moment to say this is something that Kate [Main], the head costumer, pointed out to me. I was expressing an insecurity about that very thing, coming back 25 years later and not only being compared to the other kids running around but being compared to myself 25 years ago. And she said, “Well I think it’s a very honorable enterprise to put out there in the world that you don’t have to be 25 or 30-years-old in order to be a superhero.” And I was so glad she said that because it makes you look at it from a whole different perspective.

Real talk? You still look damn good.
Well thank you! I appreciate that and I will take all of that kind of affirmation that anyone cares to give. [Laughs]


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Todd Helbing sobre la nueva realidad de Barry, Tom Felton uniéndose a la serie y más
Por Jolie Lash 11 Octubre, 2016 8:46 AM PDT

With help from his arch nemesis, Reverse Flash, Barry Allen's timeline was reset, making the Season 3 opener – "Flashpoint" – a distant memory.

But, as Barry learned at the end of last week's episode, not everything went back to the way it once was.

And in the show's "Paradox" episode, airing Tuesday night on The CW, Barry (Grant Gustin) will be getting used to a new reality – one where Joe (Jesse L. Martin) and Iris West (Candice Patton) aren't speaking and where Barry has a new boss named Julian (played by "Harry Potter's" Tom Felton). There are also changes on the way for Caitlyn Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), as Executive Producer Todd Helbing (who co-wrote Tuesday's episode, with his brother, and fellow EP Aaron Helbing) told Access Hollywood.

AccessHollywood.com: Here's what I need to know – is this our new reality on 'The Flash'? Is there any chance we're going to go back to Season 2 finale, pre-Barry running back in time, or is this what we're going with?
Todd Helbing: Yeah, this is, you know -- he comes out of 'Flashpoint' and now he has to deal with all the consequences of time travel. The way we sort of set it up, in the first season, he goes back and he relives that day when the Weather Wizard went after Joe, and Harrison Wells was warning him there are consequences of time travel. He can't keep doing this. But it never really affected Barry as much. In Season 2, in flashback, he goes back to learn how to go faster and when he comes out Hartley Rathaway is a good guy as opposed to a bad guy, so that was an effect, but a good effect. And now, in Season 3 [he] comes out [of it] and there are a lot of things that are not great, and it really is the first time that he has to deal with all these changes that were because of him. And the question is -- how are you going to move forward from this? Is this something that you just go back and try to change and get a do-over, or is it something you accept as a hero and move forward.

Access: Felicity, who is a character from another show, is in this episode. Can we expect her to at least be the same, since we've already had one 'Arrow' episode [air this season]? She certainly seems to be the Felicity Smoak in 'Arrow'?
Todd: She's basically the same. You'll see in Episode 2, how the characters on 'Arrow' have been affected.

Access: Tell me about Cisco. He looks like he's in some sort of meeting in the trailer. He's in a hospital gown in the photos. What have you done to that poor guy?
Todd: All I will say is what Cisco is dealing with is something that – it hits him very hard, so you'll see how that affects Barry and Cisco's relationship moving forward.

Access: Is Barry going to feel a lot of guilt seeing somebody like Cisco – it almost looks like you're putting him in some sort of therapy session something like that.
Todd: Barry is certainly – he's feeling the heavy weight of the decision that he made and there's a great scene between Jay Garrick and Barry Allen where they discuss this scenario, like, 'What are you going to do – because of these consequences, how are you going to react to them?'

Access: If Iris isn't talking to her dad, I'm just curious how Iris and Barry are because last week's episode was great if you're a big fan of the chemistry that exists between Iris and Barry. What are we going to see going forward?
Todd: You're going to see a lot of Barry and Iris. I think in the promo [Barry says], 'I've kissed Iris West twice and I've erased them both times,' and you're going to see where we dropped off that relationship and moving forward – we're not going back to – in 'Flashpoint,' he had to start over. We're not doing that.

Access: Tom Felton [makes his 'Flash' debut in this episode]. … When you were crafting that character, you didn't know who you were going to cast, right? I am curious if he had any influence on the tweaks you made to that character once you knew you got Tom in?
Todd: You write the character a certain way, and I mean, he was always going to be this prickly antagonist who is Barry's -- in a lot of ways, his boss and sort of is on to his disappearances and he's a smart guy, so he starts to figure out something is wrong with Barry, and he doesn't like him because of that. But … as the season goes on and you start to see more and more scenes, [you] start to pick out what's really working and the chemistry between these two guys and then you can just write to make the scenes that much better, just more informed. So it certainly changes and evolves over the course of the season. A perfect example is last year, I think in our first table read with Harry, Tom [Cavanagh] was crossing out dialogue, and we're like, 'Oh crap he hates this.' But it wasn't that. He just felt like his character said less. And you're like, 'Oh, that's so right. Why don't we do that?' And it's just more informed moving forward.


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Cuando Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, y Legends of Tomorrow se reúnan para el próximo y épico cuádruple crossover de esta temporada, se enfrentarán con su más duro reto hasta la fecha: 'The Dominators'.

En los cómics, específicamente en "Invasion!", los Dominators son aliens avanzados tecnológicamente que forman una coalición con otras razas para invadir la Tierra y eliminar la amenaza que constituyen los impredecibles metahumanos.

“Diré que su objetivo está relacionado muy cercanamente a lo que se estableció en los cómics, y tiene que ver con los metahumanos,” le cuenta Marc Guggenheim a EW. “Es muy, muy fiel a los cómics.”

La llegada de los Dominators forzará a los superhéroes del Arrowverso a hacer equipo para lo que Guggenheim llama su crossover “más ambicioso”. “Pienso que es masivamente diferente. El primer crossover que hicimos eran dos historias separadas que tenían una ligera conexión tangencial la una con la otra. Luego, el año pasado, el crossover que hicimos era una historia de dos partes que contaba una historia completa con un principio, una mitad y un final en Flash y Arrow, pero que también tenía la función de asentar a Legends of Tomorrow.”

“Este año,” continúa Guggenheim, “estamos haciendo de lejos el crossover más ambicioso que jamás hayamos hecho. Básicamente es una enorme historia en tres partes que también trae a Supergirl, así es que está cruzando a nuestras cuatro series. Cuenta una enorme y épica historia de película. No está estableciendo ningún otro spin-off, es tan sólo una enorme y grandilocuente acción. También hay algunos momentos realmente significativos de algunos personajes. Hay muchos argumentos, particularmente diría que en Flash y Legends, que fructifican en el crossover. Es de lejos la cosa más ambiciosa que jamás hayamos intentado. Diría que es de lejos la cosa más ambiciosa que nadie en la cadena haya intentado. Es una locura totalmente.”


Adicionalmente, BleedingCool nos informa que el crossover está usando el título provisional de “Invasion”, como su historia homóloga de los cómics, que Steel conseguirá su look más familiar de los cómics de manos de Ray Palmer y que esta versión del héroe parece transformarse en realidad en acero en lugar de ser un tipo de cyborg. También parece que las "Legends Of Tomorrow" irá atrás en el tiempo para capturar e interrogar a un Dominator que invadió la tierra y fue detenido por el ejército de los EEUU.



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