Does The Flash Movie Feature a Cameo From the CW Series? The Answer May Surprise You…
The following contains spoilers from the DC Studios movie The Flash, now in theaters.
In the wake of advanced screenings of The Flash, the standalone superhero film from DC Studios (now in theaters), there were reports that an actor from the nine-season CW series puts in an appearance.
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Well-placed sources on both the TV and theatrical side, however, assure TVLine that the alleged Flash vet sighting is a case of mistaken identity.
Directed by Andy Muschietti, the Flash movie finds Barry Allen (played by Justice League‘s Ezra Miller) using his powers to travel back in time in order to prevent his mother Nora’s murder. But when Bar’s attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, he becomes trapped in a harrowing new reality. In order to correct this paradox, Barry finds himself coaxing a Bruce Wayne/Batman (played by Michael Keaton) out of retirement, to then rescue an imprisoned Supergirl (played by Sasha Calle). The cast also includes Kiersey Clemons (Fairfax) as Iris West and DCU vet Ben Affleck (as another Bruce Wayne/Batman).
Given the film’s exploration of the “multiverse” concept (you may never look at spaghetti the same again), the climax involves Barry Allen laying eyes on a visual representation of the other timelines and the superheroes that patrol them. That tees up cameos (all using archival footage) of Christopher Reeve’s Superman and Helen Slater’s Supergirl, and the Superman that Nicolas Cage never got to be.
They were followed by some iconic TV heroes (detailed below), and then what sure looked like Teddy Sears in his Golden Age speedster/Jay Garrick get-up from Season 2 of The Flash — even though that’d have made no sense, since “Jay” was an imposter/Sears never played an actual Flash.) And numerous sites reported a Sears cameo as fact. But as noted above, sources tell TVLine that said cameo was absolutely not Sears, but a generic Golden Age Flash representation.
Which TV superheroes 100% DID make cameos? And who was unacceptably snubbed? Read on…
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