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Why not cast Grant Gustin for the part? He is definitely the greatest Barry Allen ever, and a great young actor!
Edit 2022: OK, Ezra, move aside, it's Grant's turn!
I do not deny Ezra was good too, and that the last seasons of Flash have been week sauce (I do agree that most baddies are converted to good after a nice speech, nonetheless I'll keep watching it till the end, I'm that kind of viewer...), but Grant is an established Flash, great actor and apparently a calmer human being than Ezra at the moment. :P
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@v3ro75 probably because the 2 projects have literally nothing to do with each other aside from being about the same character. It would make no sense and would be confusing to have the same actor play the character in two totally separate universes.
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Why not cast Grant Gustin for the part? He is definitely the greatest Barry Allen ever, and a great young actor!
Edit 2022: OK, Ezra, move aside, it's Grant's turn!
I do not deny Ezra was good too, and that the last seasons of Flash have been week sauce (I do agree that most baddies are converted to good after a nice speech, nonetheless I'll keep watching it till the end, I'm that kind of viewer...), but Grant is an established Flash, great actor and apparently a calmer human being than Ezra at the moment. :P
Sorry, I'm team Grant! :)loading replies
because DC said the TV shows and the Movies are separate universes . . . for some weird reason. Though to say he is the greatest Barry isn't really that hard as there has only been two live action Barry Allen versions. Grant Gustin and John Wesley Shipp are really the only people who actually played Barry Allen. It is really cool that this new series made John Wesley Shipp be Barry's dad, that's pretty awesome.
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Why not cast Grant Gustin for the part? He is definitely the greatest Barry Allen ever, and a great young actor!
Edit 2022: OK, Ezra, move aside, it's Grant's turn!
I do not deny Ezra was good too, and that the last seasons of Flash have been week sauce (I do agree that most baddies are converted to good after a nice speech, nonetheless I'll keep watching it till the end, I'm that kind of viewer...), but Grant is an established Flash, great actor and apparently a calmer human being than Ezra at the moment. :P
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because that would mean that legends of tomorrow and supergirl are canon within the DCEU
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Why not cast Grant Gustin for the part? He is definitely the greatest Barry Allen ever, and a great young actor!
Edit 2022: OK, Ezra, move aside, it's Grant's turn!
I do not deny Ezra was good too, and that the last seasons of Flash have been week sauce (I do agree that most baddies are converted to good after a nice speech, nonetheless I'll keep watching it till the end, I'm that kind of viewer...), but Grant is an established Flash, great actor and apparently a calmer human being than Ezra at the moment. :P
Sorry, I'm team Grant! :)loading replies
@v3ro75 DC Comics/Entertainment wants to keep the film universe (the DC Extended Universe) and the tv-series universe (often called the DC CW universe or the Arrowverse) separate from each other. That means casting different actors/actresses for the same role in the DCEU than they did in the DCCW universe.
As DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns said: “It’s a separate universe than film so that the filmmakers can tell the story that’s best for film, while we explore something different in a different corner of the DC universe.”
Casting Grant Gustin for this film would've muddled the waters too much and would, on top of that, have been rather confusing, given past statements from DC about keeping the two universes separate (see the first and second paragraph).
See the DCEU and DCCW universe as two different sets of Earths (and other planets). They co-exist, but they don't know of each other's existence and can't travel to each other's universes.
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