BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Alum Aaron Douglas Joins THE FLASH As 'The Turtle'
The CW's hit superhero drama The Flash has cast a new villain to butt heads with our Scarlett Speedster. A new report has revealed that Battlestar Galactica actor Aaron Douglas has been cast as the DC Comics villain, The Turtle! Come check it out!
Slowly, but surely, The Turtle is on his way to wreak havoc on Central City!
Entertainment Weekly has learned that The CW's hit superhero drama The Flash has cast Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) as the DC Comics villain The Turtle, a "meta-human who can slow time itself." He'll make his debut and cause trouble for Barry & his friends in the midseason premiere on January 19.
Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg teased his arrival and spoke on how the Fastest Man Alive will react to this meta-human his team has known about for quite some time: “In a surprisingly funny twist, Cisco has actually been hunting The Turtle the entire series, To Barry’s surprise, everybody knows about Cisco’s hunt for the great white whale, which is The Turtle; he’s the only one who didn’t know about it. We love the idea that there was a villain out there that they knew about, but they just haven’t bothered to tell the audience about yet. All Barry wants to do is get faster, because if he can get faster, he can take on Zoom. He’s going up against a villain who is literally slowing him down. This is one of our best episodes coming back that we’ve ever done. It feels big and emotional.”
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Last year, the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark matter storm that struck forensic scientist Barry Allen — bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive. But Barry wasn’t the only person who was given extraordinary abilities that night. The dark matter also created meta-humans — many of whom have wreaked havoc on the city. With the help of the S.T.A.R Labs team, Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon and Dr. Harrison Wells, Barry protects the people of Central City from these powerful new threats as The Flash. Following the defeat of Allen's arch-nemesis Eobard Thawne (aka Reverse Flash), Team Flash must quickly turn their attention to the singularity swirling high above Central City, consuming everything in its path. Armed with the heart of a hero and the ability to move at super speeds, Barry charged into the eye of the singularity, but can he actually save his city from impending doom?
The Flash features:
Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/Flash
Candice Patton as Iris West
Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow
Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon
Tom Cavanagh as Dr. Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne
Jesse L. Martin as Detective Joe West
John Wesley Shipp as Henry Allen
Michelle Harrison as Nora Allen
Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm
Victor Garber as Dr. Martin Stein/Firestorm
Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold
Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West
Tony Todd as Zoom
Shantel VanSanten as Patty Spivot
Teddy Sears as Jay Garrick
The Flash returns January 19