{"id":31231,"date":"2020-10-03T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=31231"},"modified":"2020-10-03T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:19:59","slug":"billy-crudup-to-return-as-henry-allen-in-the-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=31231","title":{"rendered":"Billy Crudup to Return as Henry Allen in &#8220;The Flash&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/creeto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billy-Crudup-social.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As TCN had previously reported this past June, <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/2020\/06\/andres-andy-muschietti-wants-kiersey-clemons-as-iris-west-in-the-flash\/\">all actors from <strong>Zack<\/strong> <strong>Snyder<\/strong>&#8216;s version of <strong><em>Justice League<\/em><\/strong> are expected to return<\/a> for future <strong>DCEU<\/strong> movies, and will not be recast.  As with <strong>Kiersey Clemons<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Iris West<\/strong>, this notion was confirmed once again with the recent news of early negotiations going underway to bring back <strong>Billy Crudup<\/strong> as <strong>The Flash<\/strong>&#8216;s father, <strong>Henry Allen<\/strong>, for <strong><em>The<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Flash<\/em><\/strong> film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henry Allen plays an integral part in The Flash&#8217;s origin, as he was framed and sent to prison for the murder of <strong>Barry Allen<\/strong>&#8216;s mother, sparking the fire that lead his son down the road of becoming a superhero. Crudup&#8217;s version of Henry played a minor but key role in 2017&#8217;s <strong><em>Justice League<\/em><\/strong>, with <strong>Ezra Miller<\/strong>&#8216;s Barry having a heart-to-heart with his father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Billy-Crudup-The-Flash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to his significance to Flash mythos, it is not much of a surprise that Henry Allen would make an appearance in <em>The Flash, <\/em>and Billy Crudup is fully expected to make a return in the role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andy Muschietti&#8217;s <em>The Flash<\/em>, starring Ezra Miller in the titular role, is scheduled to hit theaters June 2nd, 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBilly Crudup is the next DC actor expected to reprise his role for &#8220;The Flash&#8221;.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=31231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Billy Crudup to Return as Henry Allen in &#8220;The Flash&#8221;&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":31236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2870,4257,1477,402,692,1281],"class_list":["post-31231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-andy-muschietti","tag-billy-crudup","tag-ezra-miller","tag-justice-league","tag-the-flash","tag-zack-snyder","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Billy Crudup to Return as Henry Allen in &quot;The Flash&quot; - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=31231\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Billy Crudup to Return as Henry Allen in &quot;The Flash&quot; - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Billy Crudup is the next DC actor expected to reprise his role for &quot;The Flash&quot;. 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