While at Winter TCA's actor
Brandon Routh shared a couple of details about his character Ray Palmer, aka
The Atom on The CW's Arrow show. Attention potential spoilers ahead.
Routh began by revealing
that he's reading the 1983 limited series, Sword of the Atom as preparation,
and inspiration. In the comic series Sword of the Atom, Ray leaves his wife
after he discovers her affair and ends up in a miniature city hidden in the
Amazon jungle. There he finds love and something to fight for. Now I know what
you might be thinking -"That will never happen in Arrow!"- well maybe
not, or maybe it already did! sort of.
"No, [Palmer being a corporate
executive] is a totally a new thing to make him able to take over Queen
Consolidated. That adds another cool go-getter aspect to him which I think is
fun, which is where a lot of his passion and energy comes into the fact that
he’s a self-made man in this way. He’s created this huge empire for himself.
Now that he’s reached the pinnacle, what is he going to do? He had this tragedy
in his life and now he’s going to give back. It’s a cool story."
What do you think? Any connection
there or am i reaching?
Moving on…Routh also said that he's
already tried on the A.T.O.M. suit and that fans will most definitely see it
before the season ends.
"The
best way to describe it is it’s an Iron Man/RoboCop-ish feel, but different
from all those too. Like, something you haven’t seen, exoskeleton as you can
see from the hologram, that’s pretty badass."
The actor finishes things off by
saying that Henry Cavill did a great job as Superman in Zack Snyder's Man of
Steel, and that he is rooting for Warner Bros. recently announced slate of DC
films.
"They’ve said this movie’s
coming, this movie’s coming out, which I think is good. It gives them a bar to
go and you have to make sure you reach the bar. So I think that’s cool and
having a strong path is [important]. When it started out, everyone said, “Oh,
superhero movies, they’re doing well. Okay, now they’re doing really well.” Now
having a plan helps everyone feel more confident that they’re going towards
something, just like the TV side is building bigger and bigger."
Source - SHH
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