The Flash introduced the quickest man alive into the world of the Arrowverse, telling the story of one of the crucial iconic DC heroes of all time in live-action. For almost a decade, The CW was the house of the Scarlet Speedster, whereas additionally turning into one of many prime faces for the DC TV model on the community.
At SpaceCon 2025 (through @SnatchingTasha on X), Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen themselves, Grant Gustin and Candice Patton, reunited for a particular panel to discuss The Flash TV present. The Arrowverse lead revealed new particulars about taking pictures the ultimate episode, explaining how “it was bizarre – some followers know – we needed to change components of that script.”
As “this was two years into COVID, and I had not gotten it. And I bought COVID per week and a half earlier than we wrapped,” Gustin stated about getting sick in the course of the making of The Flash collection finale. The DC TV veteran added, “I stored testing optimistic, and I could not come again to work.”
He went on sharing how “they shut down for a day or two, and so they reworked a few of it. I missed three or 4 days of filming, at the least.” One of many issues that ended up getting scrapped was Gustin attending to play Savitar another time.
The CW lead harassed that “I used to be speculated to be within the scene with the prosthetic scar and make-up, with all of the unhealthy guys, when it was Savitar within the go well with. That was speculated to be me as Savitar.” The Glee alum elaborated that “there was different stuff that occurred too, my stunt double bought some stuff, we shot round him.”
As for his remaining day of taking pictures, Gustin opened up that “my final day of labor was alone on a inexperienced display screen, which additionally felt proper – prefer it was type of heartbreaking, I additionally spent a lot time within the go well with on inexperienced display screen, speaking to no person!” Nonetheless, for him, “it felt proper, and the final shot I shot was the final shot of the collection, Barry working, and pushing it in on him, simply wanting happy and that was a cool final shot to get.”
The Flash season 9 ending noticed Barry, with Workforce Flash, going up in opposition to Eddie Thawne, now working as Cobalt Blue, who introduced again the entire evil speedsters that had been featured within the collection. Together with Savitar, the collection finale had Zoom, Godspeed, and Reverse-Flash again one final time.
Gustin’s superhero drama ended up turning into the longest-running collection in the complete Arrowverse franchise and was the final Earth-Prime present for The CW. Nonetheless, the franchise got here to an official finish on December 2, 2024, via the Superman & Lois collection finale, with their present set on another Earth within the bigger Arrowverse multiverse.
The Flash is out there via residence media launch, in addition to on streaming.
- Launch Date
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2014 – 2023-00-00
- Showrunner
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Eric Wallace
- Administrators
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Stefan Pleszczynski, David McWhirter, Dermott Downs, Alexandra La Roche, Ralph Hemecker, Phil Chipera, Rachel Talalay, Marcus Stokes, Chris Peppe, Danielle Panabaker, Menhaj Huda, Jesse Warn, Glen Winter, Gregory Smith, Chad Lowe, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Rob Hardy, Tom Cavanagh, Kevin Tancharoen, Millicent Shelton, Vanessa Parise, Kevin Smith, Brent Crowell, Eric Dean Seaton
- Writers
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Lauren Certo, Judalina Neira, Kelly Wheeler, Alison Schapker, Zack Stentz, Joe Peracchio, Julian Meiojas, Lilah Vandenburgh, Keto Shimizu, Gabe Snyder, Mike Alber, Gabrielle Stanton, Jaime Paglia, Carina Adly MacKenzie, Emily Silver, Bryan Q. Miller, Ray Utarnachitt