Watch Jesse L. Martin, Candace Patton In Featurette From The CW’s The FlashPosted by Wilson Morales
July 18, 2014
Source: The CW
The CW has posted a featurette of Jesse L. Martin and Candice Patton from their upcoming TV series, The Flash, which premieres this fall.
Grant Gustin will play Barry Allen/The Flash, who first appeared in Arrow’s two-part winter finale. Barry is described a Central City assistant police forensic investigator who arrives in Starling City to look into a series of unexplained robberies that may have a connection to a tragedy in his past.
Martin will portray Detective West, an honest, blue-collar cop who is a surrogate father to Barry. A soulful, funny and caring father to Iris (played by Patton), Barry’s potential love interest. West came up through the foster care system and took Barry in after his mother’s slaying and father’s imprisonment. He believes in Barry and supports his efforts to prove his father’s innocence.
Arrow co-creators Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg as well as director David Nutter are behind the potential spinoff. Berlanti, Kreisberg and DC Entertainment’s Geoff Johns, who’s also a writer/consultant on Arrow, will pen the script for Warner Bros. Television; Nutter, who directed the Arrow pilot, will also helm the pilot.
Long known for his role as NYPD Detective Ed Green on the NBC’s drama TV series Law & Order, Martin appeared in the second and final season of NBC’s Smash, and is widely known for his role as Tom Collins in Broadway’s Rent and its subsequent feature film adaptation.
Patton, who was last seen playing Tori on BET’s ‘The Game,’ also had appearances on “Rizzoli & Isles,” “CSI: Miami,” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
