Tony Todd cast as the voice of ‘Zoom’ on ‘The Flash’!
Another awesome villain is hitting the streets of Central City in ‘The Flash‘ this season. And it is non other than one of Barry Allen’s most notorious foes, ‘Zoom‘. The character will be voiced by Actor Tony Todd, who many of you may know from his iconic movie role as ‘Candyman‘. Check out all the details on this latest news below, and let us know what you think after the JUMP!
(Source: Comicbook.com)
Candyman star Tony Todd has been cast as the voice of the villain Zoom in Season 2 of The Flash.
Zoom will first appear to challenge The Flash (Grant Gustin) in the second episode of the season, “The 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 tells 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.
“The Zoom 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.”
Describing Zoom’s goals and motivation, Kreisberg says, “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.
“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.”
The title of Zoom’s first episode takes its name from the first ever comic book crossover between Barry Allen and the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick.
The Flash Season 2 premieres Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. on The CW.
