"The Flash" will be joining his fellow CW costumed heroes this fall, and now we have a better look at just how fast Barry Allen will be going in order to save the day.
A new 30-second trailer, while brief, does good on showing Grant Gustin as the Flash zipping around town at the speed of light rescuing people in need, with some impressive visuals to boot. It also teases a few things to come, such as Flash having to save citizens from the swirling debris of a massive tornado as well as Barry's fancy new superhero DNA being the map to "a whole new world."
According the official show synopsis, Allen is a CSI investigator when a particle accelerator accident causes a lightning storm to strike him. After being in a coma for months, he wakes up and quickly learns he has the power of superspeed. It goes on to say that while Allen is at first excited by his new powers, he soon learns that other superhumans were created in the freak lightning storm, and not all of them are using their powers for good.
The CW's other DC Comics superhero show, "Arrow," will crossover with "The Flash" in a two hour event for each show's respective eighth episode, with "Arrow" character Felicity Smoak also making an appearance in Flash's home turf of Central City during the show's fourth episode.
Andrew Kreisberg, an executive producer and writer for both shows, says fans can expect some smaller cameos between shows as well, before going on to say that "The Flash" is a much different show than "Arrow" in many ways. At the start of "Arrow," Oliver had already trained himself to be a survival expert and deadly archer, but in "The Flash," Berry is learning how to use his powers for the first time, and whether or not he should even be using them.
Flash's over-the-top superpower also allows for more all-out comic book and science-fiction storytelling.
"You can't just have 'The Flash,'" Kreisberg says in an interview with Collider. "'The Flash' is a world. It has families and villains and powers and time travel. It's everything. Just having a guy who runs fast, it wouldn't be 'The Flash' - so we're putting them all in," going on to say "I think with 'The Flash' - because of the structure of the comic books with time travel and parallel dimensions and all those other things, there's an opportunity to do far more sci-fi type things than we would ever imagine doing on 'Arrow.'"
"The Flash" premieres Oct. 7 on the CW.
