Live out a fantasy that is many of us have had a nostalgic tour of it Office space or Band of brothers, Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen (aka The Flash) is about to let Ron Livingston become his father. (Is it strange that we want Peter Office space to be our father? It would be cookies for dinner every night!) Specifically, Variety notes that Livingston has just been cast in Andy Muschietti’s long-in-development Flash film, which takes over the role of convicted daddy Henry Allen’s actor Billy Crudup.
Because nothing DC Films can do can ever run smoothly, does this news come only like Zack Snyder’s Justice League reminded us that Crudup was part of the studios original plans for the Flash characterseen how he, you know, appears at the end of the movie to gleefully crow (to his fellow inmates) about his son’s imagination new crime lab job. There’s no word yet on why Crudup won’t be a part of Muschietti’s new movie, though the movie is long development time, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, probably did not help. (But hey, who knows: Considering how Ray Fisher eventually left the potential role of Cyborg in this particular movie, the potential for drama Justice land is always there.)
Livingston joins a cast with Miller, plus Kiersey Clemons, Sasha street and Ben Affleck (not to mention a performance by Michael Keaton, who reprized his role as the Batted Man himself). Livingston has mostly worked on TV lately; he has had a semi-regular performance Find party, and starred in Audience / Amazon Prime’s Loudermilk for the past three years.