CANDYMAN’s Tony Todd Will Voice the Villain Zoom in THE FLASH Season 2
The CW has cast Candyman star Tony Todd to voice the villainous role of Zoom in The Flash. Zoom will come into play in the second episode of season two, “Flash of Two Worlds.” He’s going to be quite a maniac to the hero, and it will be interesting to see how the story arc of these two characters plays out.
Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg had this to say about the casting in a statement:
“Last year, with the Reverse-Flash, we just modulated Tom Cavanagh’s voice, and this year we wanted to do something a little bit different. Part of the mystery of the season is who or what is underneath the Zoom outfit, and so we wanted to do something like James Earl Jones as Darth Vader — this iconic voice coming out of this mask. Last year, we thought of the Reverse-Flash as a speed warrior; this year, Zoom is like a speed demon, and no one does demon-voice better than Tony Todd.”
Todd has a spectacular voice that is going to work great for Zoom. Kreisberg goes on to compare Zoom’s suit to that of Venom in Spider-Man, saying:
“The Zoom outfit is much more organic than the Reverse-Flash suit. In a way, it’s hard to tell if it is a suit or alive… There’s no skin showing, for all you know there’s a robot underneath, or dark energy.”
He goes on to talk about what drives the villainous character in the upcoming season:
“For us, the best villains are the ones who don’t have megalomaniacal ‘I want to rule the world’ motivations. Last year, the Reverse-Flash had a very simple goal which was ‘I just want to go home, and if people need to die or cities need to get wasted for me to get that, so be it.’ And Zoom has a very similar, personal goal this season… simple and easy to understand, and very primal. And just as with Wells last year, Zoom doesn’t care who gets hurt or what gets destroyed in the service of him getting his goal.”
As for Zoom’s actual identity, the creators of the series seem to have put a new spin on it. According to the report, comic book fans will be happy because they’ve “come up with a clever way to spin the tale, but that also makes it exciting for the people who aren’t as familiar with the comics and are just enjoying the show on its own terms.”
It seems like this next season is going to turn out to be as awesome as we all hoped it would. The Flash returns Tuesday, October 6th at 8 pm on The CW.
Source: Variety