Mark Hamill Spotted On The Flash Season 3 Set

Star Wars star Mark Hamill has been spotted on the set of The Flash.The actor, dressed [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Star Wars star Mark Hamill has been spotted on the set of The Flash.

The actor, dressed dramatically differently than he has been in past Trickster episodes, appears to be wearing period clothing, holding a tommy gun, and facing off against Jay Garrick (John Wesley Shipp).

Given those differences, most fans are speculating that Hamill will in fact be playing the Earth-3 version of The Trickster, a character he first played opposite Shipp in the original The Flash TV show in 1990.

Hamill and Shipp appeared in the same episode in season 1, but at that point Shipp was still playing Henry Allen, Barry's father. After Henry's death, it was revealed that Jay Garrick, a veteran speedster and The Flash on Earth-3, was Henry's doppelganger.

Fans who geeked out seeing Shipp don a Flash costume again will no doubt be thrilled to see him seemingly squaring off against his most significant foe from the 1990 series.

You can see the images below, via Twitter:

After a The Flash's two-hour pilot episode turned out to be a hit in a limited theatrical release overseas and in the home video market (released as a movie titled The Flash), a second movie was relased to VHS titled The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster, featuring Shipp and Hamill squaring off in a pair of episodes, "The Trickster" and "The Trial of The Trickster." A third movie was later released on VHS editing together two of the show's Nightshade episodes.

As far as in-jokes go, it's probably also worth noting that the pallid color and dark circles around his eyes give Hamill's Trickster a somewhat Joker-like affect -- something that might feel a little less like an in-joke if Hamill hadn't spent much of the last 25 years voicing The Joker in various animated projects.

The Flash airs on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW. It seems likely that these shots are taken from the show's midseason finale, which will air in mid-December 2016.

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