Candyman star Tony Todd as joined the second season of
The CW's The Flash as Zoom. The actor will voice the DC Comics villain in the
second episode of the new season titled Flash of Two Worlds.
"Last year, with the Reverse-Flash, we just
modulated Tom Cavanagh’s voice, and this year we wanted to do something a
little bit different," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told Variety. "Part of
the mystery of the season is who or what is underneath the Zoom outfit, and so
we wanted to do something like James Earl Jones as Darth Vader — this iconic
voice coming out of this mask. Last year, we thought of the Reverse-Flash as a
speed warrior; this year, Zoom is like a speed demon, and no one does
demon-voice better than Tony Todd."
Kreiseberg also spoke about the character's costume
and revealed that Zoom's "outfit is much more organic than the
Reverse-Flash suit. In a way, it’s hard to tell if it is a suit or alive…
There’s no skin showing, for all you know there’s a robot underneath, or dark
energy."
So far Barry has yet to fight someone with an eye
towards World domination, and according to Kreisberg, Zoom won't be breaking
any molds. "For us, the best villains are the ones who don’t have
megalomaniacal ‘I want to rule the world’ motivations. Last year, the
Reverse-Flash had a very simple goal which was, ‘I just want to go home, and if
people need to die or cities need to get wasted for me to get that, so be it.’
And Zoom has a very similar, personal goal this season… simple and easy to
understand, and very primal. And just as with Wells last year, Zoom doesn’t
care who gets hurt or what gets destroyed in the service of him getting his
goal."
As for Zoom's identity the executive producer says, "We
have to service the entire audience, both the fans and the non-fans, and I
think we’ve shown up until this point a great deal of respect and reverence for
the source material, so that we always feel like we’re fulfilling the comic
book fans’ expectations while also not spoon-feeding them stuff directly from
the comics. So the story of Zoom and who and what he is… hopefully comic book
fans will be happy because we’ve come up with a clever way to spin the tale,
but that also makes it exciting for the people who aren’t as familiar with the
comics and are just enjoying the show on its own terms."
Besides his work on the Candyman franchise, Todd is
also known for Platoon, Final Destination, Chuck, 24, and voicing Icon on Young
Justice.
The Flash returns on October 6.
Source - Variety
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