The Flash: 6 actors who could run away with the role

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 03: Ansel Elgort attends New York City Ballet 2018 Spring Gala at Lincoln Center on May 3, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

4. Ansel Elgort

Hamada and Warner Bros. wanted to just usher in someone know whose identical in age to Ezra Miller, Ansel Elgort works. Besides his age, the 6-foot-3 Elgort has an admittedly unnecessary but welcomed intimidating stature. Miller’s Flash was short compared to Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, and Jason Mamoa — not that it mattered.

What matters is Elgort‘s ability to play the role, and he can. In his young career, he’s shown he’s more than just a young up and coming actor — he’s arrived. And one of his best roles was Baby in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. While he wasn’t wearing spandex running around saving the city Baby was heroic to some degree.

Baby Driver was one of two critically acclaimed films Elgort starred in. The other of course was the feel-good romance, The Fault in Our Stars. As the Flash Elgort could undoubtedly pull off a young version of the hero — similarly to Miller’s.