Grant Gustin Is The Flash on Arrow Season 2 - video Dailymotion

Glee's Grant Gustin is going to become The Flash on Arrow Season 2. He'll play the Barry Allen version of the character.

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00:00Glee star Grant Gustin lands a coveted superhero role.

00:04Hi everyone, I'm Brian Corsetti for ENTV and Deadline.com is all the details.

00:11Grant Gustin has gotten a major TV promotion.

00:14In 2011, he went from unknown actor to Glee Heartthrob playing Batty Sebastian on the Fox

00:21hit show.

00:22Now, he'll enter the superhero universe in the lead role of Barry Allen, aka The Flash,

00:29on CW's Arrow spin-off.

00:31But according to Deadline, the network plans to first introduce the character in three

00:35episodes of Arrow's upcoming season.

00:38Barry enters Arrow's world as a police forensic investigator who arrives in Starlink to look

00:42into a series of unexplained robberies.

00:45He also happened to be a fanboy obsessed with the Green Arrow, played by Stephen Amell.

00:51According to the show creator, fans will get to know Barry as a, quote, ordinary man before

00:56he ever puts on the superhero suit.

00:58But things will pick up pretty quickly for Gustin's character once the Flash pilot airs.

01:04The CW hopes to recreate the success of Arrow, which has gotten fairly good reviews and several

01:10Teen Choice Award nominations its first year.

01:13The second season premieres Wednesday, October 9th on The CW.

01:17The second season premieres Wednesday, October 9th on The CW.

01:20Gustin will make his debut as Barry Allen in Episode 8.

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