The Flash Season 2 casts Candyman Tony Todd to voice villain Zoom

Actor Tony Todd is set to play the voice of the villain Zoom come The Flash Season 2.

Best known for his role as the bad-ass in Candyman, Todd will first appear in episode 2 entitle “The Flash of Two Worlds”.

The Flash‘s Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg had this to say about the casting:
Last year, with the Reverse-Flash, we just modulated Tom Cavanagh’s voice, and this year we wanted to do something a little bit different. Part of the mystery of the season is who or what is underneath the Zoom outfit, and so we wanted to do something like James Earl Jones as Darth Vader — this iconic voice coming out of this mask. Last year, we thought of the Reverse-Flash as a speed warrior; this year, Zoom is like a speed demon, and no one does demon-voice better than Tony Todd. The Zoom outfit is much more organic than the Reverse-Flash suit. In a way, it’s hard to tell if it is a suit or alive… There’s no skin showing, for all you know there’s a robot underneath, or dark energy.

It’s the baritone tones, baby.

Kreisberg also spoke on Zoom character motivations, and they are more ‘matter of fact’ than some grand scheme:

For us, the best villains are the ones who don’t have megalomaniacal ‘I want to rule the world’ motivations. Last year, the Reverse-Flash had a very simple goal which was ‘I just want to go home, and if people need to die or cities need to get wasted for me to get that, so be it.’ And Zoom has a very similar, personal goal this season… simple and easy to understand, and very primal. And just as with Wells last year, Zoom doesn’t care who gets hurt or what gets destroyed in the service of him getting his goal.

The Flash Season 2 premieres on the CW come October 6^th 2015