Living a fantasy, like that many of us had during a nostalgic viewing of Office space or Band of brothersEzra Miller’s Barry Allen (aka The Flash) is about to make Ron Livingston his father. (It’s weird that we want Peter Office space to be our father? It would be cakes for dinner every night!) Specific, variety notes that Livingston was just distributed in Andy Muschietti’s long development Flash film, taking on the role of the convicted father Henry Allen of the actor Billy Crudup.
Because nothing DC Films can do can ever work, however, this news does come over just as Zack Snyder’s Justice League he reminded us that Crudup was part of the studio original plans for the character Flash –given how, you know, appears right at the end of the film to sing happily (to his fellow detainees) about his son’s fantasy new crime lab job. It is not yet known why Crudup will not be part of Muschietti’s new film, although the film long The developmental time, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, probably did not help. (But hey who knows: Given how Ray Fisher came to leave the potential role of Cyborg in this special film, the potential for drama in Justice the ground is always there.)
Livingston joins a cast that includes Miller, plus Kiersey Clemons, Sasha Street, and Ben Affleck (not to say anything about an appearance of Michael Keaton, who repeats himself as a Beaten Man). Livingston has been working mostly on TV lately; he had a semi-regular concert Party searchand starred in Audience / Amazon Prime’s Loudermilk for the last three years.