In season one of The Flash, we learned that Eobard Thawne had disguised himself as Harrison Wells after murdering the real version. Following his defeat, the show introduced "Harry" from Earth-2 and when the time came for him to head home, "H.R." from Earth-19 showed up but had no scientific knowledge. He later sacrificed himself to stop Savitar so what's next for Tom Cavanagh's Wells?
During a recent interview with Comic Book Resources, the actor revealed that Harry will still be on Earth-1 when the season begins and that the plan is to introduce another version down the line.
"This year, we’ve had a different villain and so I think there’s going to be areas that we could use a different Wells," Cavanagh teased when the site asked about how the show could change Wells yet again. "We’re going to start with Harry and then find a way, I think, to try and get a different version of Wells in there, be it some version of Harry or whatnot as the season’s gaps present themselves. I mean, there is stuff that’s involved with this season that we’re talking about how Wells might become a different version of Wells, but I think that’s a storyline too far from me to give up."
Interestingly, Cavanagh went on to suggest that we could see the original Earth-1 Wells somehow return despite being killed at the hands of Reverse-Flash. "When considering not just this season, but it looks like The Flash I heard contractually is going to run for the next 27 years… There’s room to like see what you can do with it, and that seems like an obvious one, but then I think it paints the writers into a corner a little bit, because — first off — he’s dead. He dead!" the actor explained.
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