Live a fantasy that yes many of us have had during a nostalgic viewing of Office space or Band of brothers, Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen (aka The Flash) is about to get Ron Livingston to be his father. (It’s weird that we want Peter Office space be our father? They would be cookies for dinner every night!) Specifically, Variety notes that Livingston has just been released in the long development of Andy Muschietti Flash film, taking on the role of doomed father Henry Allen of the actor Billy Crudup.
Because nothing DC Films can do can ever work well, this news yes Come not more how Justice League by Zack Snyder reminded us that Crudup was part of the study original plans for the character Flash—given like him, you know, appears right at the end of the film to sing happily (to his fellow inmates) about his son’s fantasy new crime lab work. It is not yet known why Crudup will not be part of Muschietti’s new film, although that of the film long development time, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, probably did not help. (But Hey, who knows: Given how Ray Fisher ended up abandoning the potential role of Cyborg in this particular film, the potential of drama a Justice the earth is always there.)
Livingston joins a cast that includes Miller, plus Kiersey Clemons, Sasha Street, and Ben Affleck (to say nothing of the appearance of Michael Keaton, resuming his role as Batted Man). Livingston has been working mostly on television lately; has had a semi-regular concert Look for party, and starred in Audience / Amazon Prime’s Loudermilk for the last three years.