Ed’s Tom Cavanagh Joins The Flash Pilot

Tom Cavanagh has joined The CW’s Flash pilot as Harrison Wells, a character who will be linked to the origin of the speedster superhero.

Tom Cavanagh

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Ed star’s character is “a rock star in the world of physics. The mind and money behind Central City's S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator, he becomes a pariah after the lab's explosion, but charts his path to redemption when he discovers that his failed experiment had the unintended consequence of creating the world's fastest man.”

Grant Gustin stars as Barry Allen, a.k.a. The Flash, while Candice Patton will costar as Iris West, Jesse L. Martin as her dad Detective West, Danielle Panabaker as bioengineering ace Caitlin Snow, and as Rick Cosnett as Detective Eddie Thawne. According to the trade, one main role remains open: Hartley Rathaway. In the comics, Rathaway became a character called the Pied Piper (yep…), while Harrison Wells, as far as I can tell, is an original creation for the show.

Arrow's Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and director David Nutter are executive-producing the Flash pilot, with Geoff Johns writing the episode and Nutter directing. Barry Allen, of course, already showed up on Arrow in December. Watch the following scene from that for the first glimpse of his origin:

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