Variety is reporting that Kiersey Clemons has closed a deal to costar in The Flash, with the site’s insiders saying it’s all but a given that Clemons is playing Iris West – “the tough-as-nails journalist and friend of Barry Allen,” as the site puts it.
Famuyiwa is currently in the process of not only researching The Flash movie (that is, reading up on Flash comic book stories), but also casting the film’s main players.
Iris West is described in the breakdown as having Christiane Amanpour’s brains and Carrie Bradshaw’s style.
He will presumably be tweaking the role of Iris West too, so as to make the character an even better fit for Clemons and to better differentiate the film’s version of Iris from the Flash TV show version of the character (who is played by Candice Patton).