The Flash
Is Iris gone?
Season 6 of The Flash ended prematurely tonight with episode 19 instead of episode 22, due to the coronavirus production shutdown.
We were left with a couple of cliffhangers:
Eva McCulloch escaped the Mirrorverse, became the Mirror Mistress, killed her husband Joseph, framed Sue Dearbon for the murder and took back her company McCulloch Technologies.
Iris acclimated to the Mirroverse, figured out where Chief Singh was and when it all became too much started refracting light like a prism and disappeared.
I’m acclimating to this place — Iris in the Mirrorverse.
Showrunner Eric Wallace says we’ll find out where Iris went when The Flash returns for season 7 in the new year.
It’s really cool and there’s a twist, and it’s a big Iris story with a lots of surprises. Also, there’s a big guest star from seasons early on in The Flash. — Eric Wallace to EW.
The show will roll over the last three episodes of season 6 (90% of episode 20 was shot before the shutdown) into the first three episodes of season 7 — which will wrap up Eva’s story.
There likely will be changes to production — no big crowds or stunt sequences like we’re used to in the Flash.
We might tweak it a little bit because we don’t know how the pandemic is going to affect shooting. Like, can we have a whole bunch of extras running around? Can we have these big stunt sequences outside that you would usually see in a Flash finale? It might be smaller now. I don’t know. We have to adjust that without adjusting the story because Eva’s story is on a very specific trajectory that we want to honor and finish. — Eric Wallace to EW.
After the last three episodes of Eva’s story are filmed, The Flash will go right into the next Big Bad’s story in the fourth episode.
The other big thing it’s going to then affect is the rest of the shape of season 7. We actually already started breaking season 7 when this pandemic happened. So it’s really: How does it affect the top of season 7? I think it’s making it even better, I think it’s making it stronger because it’s forcing us to look at these two separate things — which is the end of Eva’s story and the beginning of the next villain’s story and how he relates to Barry and Iris — [and realize] they kind of have to be connected even more because there isn’t some summer break anymore. The audience will experience it now a week later. — Eric Wallace to EW.
Whoever the next big villain is, Barry and Iris will survive the first three episodes, as will Team Flash and Team Citizen.
Production of season 7 is expected to get underway this Fall in Vancouver.