This time last year fans were very excited about “The Flash” season 3 premiere once it was announced that it would be titled “Flashpoint.” The episode picked up about six months after the season 2 finale, and it looks like the show will be doing something similar for the season 4 premiere.
At the end of season 3, Barry Allen sacrificed himself to the Speed Force, and it’s unclear how the show will bring him back. Candice Patton recently spoke to TV Line, and according to the report the show will pick up six months after the season 3 finale. Patton also noted that Iris will be dealing with the Barry situation in her own way.
“We still don’t have Barry out of the Speed Force,” Candice Patton said. “Iris is really struggling to deal with that, and she does it in her own way.”
With Barry gone there have been a lot of rumors in regards to how the show will deal with his absence. It’s been rumored that Wally West will become The Flash, however Keiynan Lonsdale recently denied that he’ll be putting on the red suit.
It’s also been rumored that Iris could be taking on a larger role, but unfortunately Candice Patton wouldn’t elaborate on the rumor.
“That’s a very interesting question that I can’t really answer!”
“The Flash” will return on Tuesday, October 10.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry’s life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. But when Barry used his extraordinary abilities to travel back in time and save his mother’s life, he inadvertently created an alternate timeline known as Flashpoint; a phenomenon that gave birth to the villainous speed god known as Savitar, and changed the lives of Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Wally West (Keiyan Lonsdale) forever.
With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), his lifelong best friend and love interest Iris West (Candice Patton), and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs — Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), C.S.I Julian Albert (Tom Felton), and an Earth-19 novelist named H.R. Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) — Barry continues to protect the people of Central City from the meta-humans that threaten it.
Based on the characters from DC, THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “Supergirl”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Arrow,” “The Flash”), Sarah Schechter (“Arrow,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) and Todd Helbing (“Black Sails”).
