Deadline reports that The Vampire Diaries‘ Rick Gosnett and Danielle Panabaker of Piranha 3DD fame have been cast in The CW’s pilot for The Flash.The pair apparently play villains opposite heroes Grant Gustin (who plays Barry Allen, The Flash, reprising his role from Arrow) and Jesse L. Martin (appearing as Detective West, a father figure to Barry and the biological dad of Iris West, who in the comics is Barry’s true love).The project, from Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Productions, is an origin story about Barry Allen aka The Flash (Gustin), a Central City assistant police forensics investigator who arrives in Starling to look into a series of unexplained robberies that may have a connection to the bizarre and seemingly extranormal death of Allen’s mother years ago, for which his father is falsely imprisoned.
