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Ryan Gosling as Flash/Barry Allen
I think that he’s a great actor. I like the way that he played his roles in Drive (2011) and Lars and the Real Girl (2007). I think that he’ll play an excellent Flash (Barry Allen). I considered Chris Pine, Josh Lucas and Alex Pettyfer but my final choice was Ryan Gosling.
The Character:
Barry is witty, laid-back, humorous and friendly, but he has the reputation being slow and the always comes late in your duties. He works as forensic scientist at the Central City Police Department. Barry is a meticulous scientist that always works alone until later in the lab. Because of this one night he suffers one accident that gives him a superhuman speed and turns him in the superhero called Flash, the fastest man in the world.
Barry is working in a case involving the murders of famous people by one serial killer known as Mirror Master. During his investigation he discovers a kind of link between the victims. So because of this clue, Barry meets the famous quantum physicist named Professor Ira West, the father of the beautiful reporter Iris West who becomes a friend of Barry Allen.
Jeremy Davies as Sam Scudder/Mirror Master I
First I choose him because he’s a very meticulous actor and he has a soft voice that I think that combines with this character. I like his roles in Helter Skelter (TV movie), Saving Private Ryan, Dogville, Rescue Dawn and Lost (TV series). I think that he’s an excellent actor.
The Character:
The Professor Sam Scudder is one of the victims of the serial killer known as Mirror Master. Scudder was an expert physicist in some studies involving Wormholes, invisibility and some quantum optical experiments. He was working for the government in a new project involving a new weapon against future extraterrestrial attacks.
During his tests he was murdered by the Mirror Master that burned the lab with Scudder inside. The Scudder's body never was found, but a little mirror was found in the burned lab similar to the others mirrors left by the killer in his crime scenes. The mysterious equipment developed by the Professor Scudder was stolen by the killer.
Kevin McKidd as Evan McCulloch/ Mirror Master II
I think that he’s a good actor with a big potential. I like of his roles in Trainspotting, Roma (TV series) and Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief and I believe that he’ll play this character very well. I thought about Josh Lucas as Mirror Master but my final choice was McKidd.
The Character:
Evan McCulloch was hired as mercenary in the Middle East and Africa by the government during some forbidden operations in these locations. He has involvement with a mysterious sector of the government. So one year ago He was hired by an unknown person to kill some people involved in mysterious projects created by this sector.
So his first task was steal mysterious equipment able to use mirrors like wormholes and kill the Professor Sam Scudder with a kind of lethal injection and burns the lab with the Scudder's body.
When he kills your targets, he lets one little mirror in the crime scene that he uses it to escape of the crime scene without being seen by possible witnesses. This is possible because of the equipment that he stole from Scudder.
One of his next targets is the quantum physicist named Ira West, but a new scarlet unknown is working alongside of the Central City Police Department to arrest him for his crimes.
Rachel Nichols as Iris West
I choose her principally because of her roles in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Criminal Minds (TV series). I believe that she has a big potential that needs to be worked and she’ll play good this character. I thought about others actress like Lauren Cohan, Kate Mara, Rebecca Mader and Deborah Ann Woll for this role.
The Character:
Iris West is the daughter of the famous physicist Ira West and works as an investigative reporter for the
Picture News . She is investigating the series of murders involving a serial killer known as Mirror Master. During this investigation she knows a forensic scientist named Barry Allen that discovered some kind of link between the victims of the killer. After that this clue revealed that her father is a potential target of the killer, alongside her new friend, Barry Allen, she will try to help the Central City Police Department in the arrest of this serial killer before that he kills her father.
During this mission, she meets a scarlet unknown named Flash, the fastest man in the world.
Harvey Keitel as Ira West
I did not consider others actors for this role and I choose Harvey Keitel because of his intense emotional acting style. I believe that he is perfect for this character. I like his roles in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn and Red Dragon.
The Character:
The Professor Ira West is a brilliant quantum physicist and the father of the investigative reporter and of the others two children, Rudy and Charlotte.
A few months ago Ira abandoned a mysterious project of the government involving the creation of weapons against potential attacks by extraterrestrials because of his ideology against the use of science in the weapons development.
Now the professor has spent his time with the studies of the quantum kinetic and he's developing new inventions including a material able to lower the friction of a physical body allowing it reaches high speed without the destruction of the physical body.
During his studies, he knows a forensic scientist named Barry Allen who alerts him that he is a potential target of the serial killer called Mirror Master. Ira and Barry become close friends and Ira presents Barry to his family: his wife Nadine and his children Charlotte, Rudy and Iris.
Ira becomes surprise when Iris tells him that knows Barry from the news about the killer. So he approves the friendship of his daughter with Barry.
Ira doesn't agree with the actions of his son that treats badly his daughter-in-law called Mary.
Zeljko Ivanek as Darryl Frye
This is other character that I didn’t consider others actors. I choose Zeljko Ivanek because of his abilities to play lawyers or politicians but principally because of his role in The Event (TV Series). I like his role in Big Love (TV series), True Blood (TV series), and Donnie Brasco. I like his others works as Lost (TV series) and Dancer in the Dark too.
Noah Emmerich as Rudy West
I choose him because of his roles in The Truman Show, Pride and Glory, Super 8 and Little Children (2006). I believe that he’s a good actor and he’ll play an excellent and serious Rudy West. I didn’t think about others actors for this role.
Bridget Moynahan as Mary West
She was chosen because of her roles in I Robot and Lord of War. I believe that she can bring some kind of drama for this character. I considered others actresses like Cynthia Nixon for example but my final choice was Bridget.
Bill Paxton as Paul Barret
Paxton was chosen because of his character in Big Love (TV Series). I like his other role in Apollo 13. I believe that he’ll play this role very well like a politician figure and influent person.
Plot
Barry Allen works as a forensic scientist for the Central City Police Department that is chasing a serial killer named Mirror Master by the journalists including the investigative reporter Iris West, the daughter of the respected quantum physicist called Ira West.
One night, while Barry is working alone in his lab, a bolt of lightning strikes one mirror left by the Mirror Master in the crime scene and overthrows a cabinet with electrified chemicals that bathe Barry and somehow give him a superhuman speed as well as the able to maintain complete control over every molecule in his body.
So Barry becomes the superhero known as The Flash, the fastest man in the world.
Trivia
-> In Scudder’s lab has a sketch about an invisible airplane. The invisibility is one of the studies of the scientist.
-> Rudy West ironically says that he heard about one urban legend what says that crime fighters has some kind of attraction for young journalists.
-> The pregnant Mary West says that her son will be a good person like the scarlet hero, Flash.
-> Ira West says that he did not want to develop weapons to the government. So he and others scientist of a billionaire company of Gotham City abandoned the project.
-> Ira West discovers that Barry Allen is the Flash. He creates the Flash's suit using his invention able to lower the friction of the body allowing it reaches a high speed without the destruction of the body.
-> Ira created his invention using a sample of extraterrestrial tissue obtained by the government during a battle in Metropolis.
Post-credits scene
After of the events Barry Allen is sleeping in his bed when he begins to dream with a spaceship that falls in a desert. Soon the spaceship is found by soldiers and the space traveler is captured by the soldiers that take him for a bunker of experiments where he suffers experiments. One of the scientists asks the space traveler about his nanotechnology equipment found in the spaceship. The green humanoid says:
-It's dangerous. Don't use it. My name is J'onn...
So Allen wakes up of his scary dream. But mysteriously he softly says five letters that cause him a kind of fear. The letters form one word:
- A-M-A-Z-O!
Soon: Justice League: The Awakening