Mark Hamill To Reprise The Trickster Role In CW’s ‘The Flash’!

Briefly: Looks like The CW has another 90’s throwback planned for The Flash, and another original series cast member will reprise his villainous role.

It’s Mark Hamill, and he’s playing The Trickster. The CW lists the character’s bio as:

“Mark Hamill returns in a brand new interpretation of James Jesse (aka The Trickster), a role he originated on the 90’s ‘Flash’ series.  In this new iteration, The Trickster is an anarchist terrorist  con man serving a life sentence in Iron Heights who helps Barry (Grant Gustin) and Det. West (Jesse L. Martin) to foil the city-wide attacks of a wannabe Trickster eagerly following in the original’s deadly footsteps.   The episode will reunite him with John Wesley Shipp who went up against him as the original ‘Flash’ on the CBS version.”

The CW has been doing a pretty stellar job with The Flash so far, and it’s especially cool to see all the nods and recastings that they’ve been doing in homage to the original series.

Series’ executive producer Andrew Kreisberg notes that “Having Mark reprise his role as The Trickster was on our original wish list when we were planning our version of The Flash.  Christmas and Chanukah came early for us this year when he said yes!  We are beyond humbled and excited to have him joining us for another round of deadly trickery!”

Are you down for the role? Excited to see what sort of shape Hamill’s gotten himself into for his role in Star Wars: Episode VII? Sound out below!

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Source: HitFlix