I would assume
that one of the main difficulties in developing a movie or tv show based on a
comic book property is the camp factor that some heroes and villains have, especially
if they have a certain type of power, costume, and personality that could easily
fall into that trap.
In a recent
interview, The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg addressed this fear,
but says that it is all about the casting.
"The
hardest thing is that some of these characters have been around since the '50s
and '60s, and they could very easily head into camp. And when you hire people
like Wentworth Miller [as Captain Cold] and Dominic Purcell [as Heat Wave] and
Rob Knepper [as Clock King], some of these outlandish comic book characters
become very grounded and very scary and very real. I mean, with Wentworth, no
pun intended, he's just so cool -- he's so cool, like Clint Eastwood. He's like
an Old West gunslinger, and that's sort of how we portray him. You're only as
good as your villain, and especially in movies, some of the Batman movies have
had some of the greatest actors: Heath Ledger and Liam Neeson and Tom Hardy
playing these villains and they really feel like threats. And sometimes on TV
it's harder to make that happen, and we've been so blessed on "Arrow"
with John Barrowman and Manu Bennett, and on "Flash" on Episode Four
we've got Wentworth Miller, and in Episode Five we have Clancy Brown [as General
Wade Eiling]. So we just feel so blessed that we've been able to attract the
kind of talent we have, because in addition to the visual effects, if you don't
have these amazing actors it's just a cartoon."
The Flash stars
Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/Flash, Candice Patton as Iris West, Jesse L. Martin
as Detective West, Rick Cosnett as Detective Eddie Thawne, Danielle Panabaker
as Caitlin Snow, Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Wells, Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon,
John Wesley Shipp as Dr. Henry Allen Dominic Purcell as Heat Wave, Greg Finley
as Girder, Clancy Brown as General Wade Eiling, Robert Knepper as Clock King,
Kelly Frye as Plastique, Wentworth Miller as Captain Cold, William Sadler as
Simon Stagg, and Robbie Amell as Firestorm.
Source - CBR
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