First Look At Grant Gustin As THE FLASH In The CW’s Upcoming Pilot

After much anticipation, we finally have an official glimpse of Grant Gustin suited up as The Flash in The CW’s Arrow spin-off. While it isn’t a full bodyshot, the following first-look image offers a good shot of Barry Allen’s headgear as the Scarlet Speedster. As expected, it’s a great modern reinvention of the mask donned by The Flash in the comics, and it increases anticipation for a shot of the suit in its entirety.

The Flash costume was designed by Academy Award winner Colleen Atwood, who previously worked on Alice in Wonderland and Snow White & The Huntsman. She was also behind the design of The Arrow’s costume for Arrow. It has also been confirmed that the pilot will begin production next week. And if ordered to series, The Flash will debut on The CW next fall.

The Flash also stars Candice Patton as Iris West, Jesse L. Martin as Detective West, Rick Cosnett as Eddie Thawne, Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow, Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon, Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Wells, Michelle Harrison as Nora Allen, and John Wesley Shipp as an unknown character. We also have a press release accompanying the image.

The first image from The CW’s new pilot THE FLASH, from Warner Bros. Television and based upon characters published by DC Comic.

THE FLASH stars Grant Gustin as Barry Allen and The Flash

The costume for The Flash was designed by three-time Oscar® winner Colleen Atwood, who also designed the costume for ARROW and whose motion picture credits include Academy Awards® for her work on Alice in Wonderland, Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago, as well as seven additional Oscar® nominations for films such as Snow White and the Huntsman, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Sleepy Hollow, among others

Production begins on THE FLASH pilot next week.

Through a freak accident, scientist Barry Allen is given the power of super speed that transforms him into the Fastest Man Alive, in THE FLASH.

THE FLASH pilot is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and David Nutter (all of Arrow). Nutter is directing from a script by Berlanti & Kreisberg & DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns.

THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, and is based upon characters published by DC Comics.