Almost a decade ago, “The Flash” premiered on the CW with a pilot episode that showed a story far in the future. On a future front page of the fictional newspaper Central City Citizen, the headline said that Flash had disappeared in a “crisis” event. The date: April 25, 2024.
The sinister scene set up multiple major storylines in the nine-season series, from the villainous Reverse-Flash that looms large in the first season to a massive DC Comics crossover storyline that didn't come into play until Season 6.
Actor Grant Gustin, who played the speedster, marked the occasion with a throwback photo of himself in a Flash bathrobe from April 25, 2016. He searched for a photo from the set every April 25 for the nine years they were in production, he wrote, but the cheeky shot was “the only Flash-related photo from the 25th.” of April”. He got.
“We made it: April 25, 2024. I can confirm that Flash is, in fact, not gone,” the actor captioned the post.
His “Flash” co-star Tom Cavanagh, who played scientist Harrison Wells and the reverse Flash who takes over his body, also appreciated the occasion and shared photos of him and Gustin backstage in “Water for Elephants,” a musical in which the latter stars on Broadway. “He didn't disappear after all,” Cavanagh wrote.
Actress Candice Patton, who played The Flash's love interest Iris West, shared a photo of the newspaper's front page marked with Thursday's date. Instagram Story.
The “crisis” that the Stinger pilot alluded to played out in “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” a five-episode crossover in the CW’s “Arrowverse” of shows based on DC Comics: on the CW, including “Arrow,” “Supergirl”, “Batwoman” and “Legends of Tomorrow” and “The Flash”. It was a collaboration of epic proportions as the superhero team came together to protect themselves from the supervillain Anti-Monitor and his forces.
The crossover aired in December 2019 and January 2020 as a culmination of the stories of each of the series.
“The Flash” series concluded in 2023 and is unrelated to the film of the same name that hit theaters the same year. The only thread tying them together is a brief cameo by Ezra Miller, the film's star, in one of the “Crisis” crossover episodes.
The brief encounter showed the two actors dressed as superheroes, both amazed by the existence of their double. Gustin's character says he's the Flash, and Miller's character seems to like the novel idea of the catchy nickname. Gustin did not make a cameo in “The Flash” movie.
