Shadowhunters vet, Jon Cor, has been cast in a recurring capacity for The Flash Season 7. He will play the supervillain, Mark Stevens, aka Chillblaine.
Here is the character’s official description:
“Scientist Mark Stevens is a charismatic bad boy obsessed with cryogenic technology. But when he’s not breaking into corporate safes, he’s busy breaking hearts with his irresistible charm and roguish style. Armed with his own cold weapons, he’ll become a new thorn in the side of Team Flash as the DC Comics villain Chillblaine.”
Cor spent two seasons on Freeform’s Shadowhunters as Hodge Starkweather. He has also appeared on Lost in Space, Dark Matter, and Supernatural, and has starred in several movies for women (of the Lifetime and Hallmark variety) including Love on Safari, Picture Perfect Christmas, Christmas on the Vine, Cross Country Christmas, and the upcoming The Valentine Competition, and Love at the Ranch.
In the comics, Chillblaine is often the boyfriend and criminal partner of Golden Glider, a character that has previously appeared on The Flash, portrayed by Peyton List. However, there are reportedly no plans for List to return for any upcoming episodes. (In both the comics and on TV, Golden Glider is Lisa Snart, the sister of Wentworth Miller’s Leonard Snart/Captain Cold.)
Barry Allen will also face off with Mirror Master, Eva McCulloch (Efrat Dor), in a dangling plot thread from the truncated Season 6, which was cut short due to COVID-19. Obviously, since The Flash is the series’ star, he will triumph, but according to the S7 logline, “in doing so, he’ll also unleash an even more powerful and devastating threat on Central City: one that threatens to tear his team — and his marriage — apart.”
Showrunner Eric Wallace also previously stated that S7 will introduce “the real Godspeed,” saying, “I want to make sure new fans — especially young new fans who are reading the comic book right now — are welcomed to the show, so it’s not just Silver Age villains and Bronze Age villains. There might be a young girl or a young boy who is reading those Flash comics right now and going, ‘Where’s my villain? My generation’s villain.'”
The Flash returns to The CW on Tuesday, February 23.
Sources: TV Line, Entertainment Weekly
