The Flash television show is starting to look more and more like the Justice League each day. Today, The CW has announced it has cast Robbie Amell to play Firestorm.
Ronnie Raymond, a maintenance worker at S.T.A.R. Labs and Dr. Caitlin Snow’s (Danielle Panabaker) fiancé, plays an integral part in the particle accelerator accident that transforms Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) into The Flash.
The original Firestorm was distinguished by his integrated dual identity. High school student Ronnie Raymond and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Martin Stein were caught in a nuclear accident that allowed them to fuse into the “nuclear man” Firestorm. Due to Stein’s being unconscious during the accident, Raymond was prominently in command of the Firestorm form with Stein a voice of reason inside his mind. Banter between the two was a hallmark of their adventures.
So a very different Firestorm than the one that we know from the comics, but the idea that a nuclear character like Firestorm appearing on the screen is a exciting one to see play out. This, along with the premiere big shocker (think time travel) has me eager to see this show when it debuts this fall.
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The Ronnie Raymond/Martin Stein connection is from the ORIGINAL Firestorm back when the character was introduced in the 70s (I think it was 70s…). The “current” Firestorm that’s in the comics has some reference back to that, but nearly everything about the character is different now.
Wonder how they will do that on a TV show budget.
Hope it’s better than Hawkman’s wings.