It seems even after nine season of playing Barry Allen on The Flash, the actor can’t seem to shake geeking out about DC.
During a recent convention appearance, Gustin was asked during a Q&A session if he would ever be willing to play the Flash again. He replied in the positive that he would be open to it. James Gunn was then asked on Threads if he would be open to casting Gustin, to which Gunn replied, “of course I’d love to work with him at some point.”
All of this eventually led to TheWrap asking Gustin about the situation. “It’s so funny,” said Gustin, “that first video that came out of me, I didn’t even know I was being filmed. I was at one of those conventions, and someone asked me if I’d ever do it, and I’ve always told people it’s not up to me. And I think the person asked me like, ‘If James Gunn wanted you to,’ and it’s like, yeah, if James Gunn wanted me to! I trust James Gunn. I love all the movies he’s put out, I’m a fan. And then yeah, I guess he caught wind of that and said something nice.”
Gustin did share that the two have traded some direct messages on social media. “Not even when all that went down! I think it was beforehand about something completely un — like, we’ve never talked about Flash. We’ve talked, just like, I’m a huge Superman fan. I’ve always been a Superman fan, since I was a kid. So I’m just really excited about the movie. And I’m excited about David [Corenswet]’s casting.”
“I’m excited to see what James Gunn does with it. So I think at one point — maybe a couple different times, we’ve DM’d about Superman. We’ve literally never talked Flash. I’m just excited that he’s doing Superman.”
It is not unheard of actors to come back in different roles in DC projects. Case in point, John Wesley Shipp played Barry Allen in the 1990 The Flash series and then came back for The CW’s The Flash in multiple roles.
Clearly nothing is in place as of yet, but something tells us we haven’t seen the last of Grant Gustin appearing in a DC-related project in some manner.
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