With The Flash film still in theaters, Apple Podcasts and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are announcing a brand-new tie into the film with a scripted podcast series titled Flash: Escape the Midnight Circus.
The series will star Max Greenfield as Barry Allen, the Flash, and will debut with two episodes on Monday July 10th, with new episodes to follow on Mondays thereafter. On Apple's page for the podcast, there is a trailer currently available to tease the new series, which will last six episodes of varying lengths (between 12 and 20 minutes long per episode).
What is the synopsis for The Flash: Escape the Midnight Circus?
Apple and Warner Bros. Entertainment released the following synopsis for the series:
Barry Allen is at the height of his powers and fame, firmly ensconced as Central City’s favorite Super Hero – but when being The Flash forces him to let Iris down one time too many, she decides to call it quits. Undeterred, Barry figures he can use the Speed Force to go back in time and set things right. But something goes wrong, Barry tumbles into a new dimension, finding himself in a small bedroom with Captain Cold, his powers gone. Cold tells Barry that he’s an unwitting participant in a televised tournament, THE MIDNIGHT CIRCUS, which pits humans, superheroes and rogues against one another in life-or-death games of chance. Survive the competition and Barry earns his freedom, recreate the conditions of his original transformation, and return to his own timeline. But to do so, he’ll have to rely solely on his wits. And if that wasn’t hard enough, he soon finds himself facing his toughest opponent yet: Iris West.
The interesting thing is that the project is called "a companion piece" to the film that it is in theaters now, but it is unclear exactly what that means. Is it part of the same continuity of the film, or is this an independent story starring a different Barry Allen?
What are the names of the episodes within the Flash podcast series?
Apple and Warner Bros. Entertainment also released the titles of the episodes, along with their running times:
Episode 1: Priorities (18:24)
Episode 2: The Inherent Dangers (12:48)
Episode 3: Fully Torqued (15:19)
Episode 4: The Psychodrome (20:38)
Episode 5: Cyclotron Don (13:08)
Episode 6: Blackout (12:17)
This is the first standalone, original scripted podcast series starring the Flash, who now has had two TV shows and a move to go with this new podcast.
Source: Apple Podcasts