Here’s some awesome news!

Mark Hamill will be reprising his role as James Jesse, aka The Trickster, in this season’s 17th episode of ‘The Flash.’ Hamill is the third actor from the original series to reprise their role in the new series. John Wesley Shipp, who played the original Barry Allen/Flash, is currently playing Barry Allen’s father and Amanda Pays will reprise her role as Dr. Tina McGee in episode 9, ‘The Man in the Yellow Suit.’

Here’s the character description from HitFix:

Mark Hamill returns in a brand new interpretation of James Jesse (aka The Trickster), a role he originated on the 90′s ‘Flash’ series.  In this new iteration, The Trickster is an anarchist terrorist con man serving a life sentence in Iron Heights who helps Barry (Grant Gustin) and Det. West (Jesse L. Martin) to foil the city-wide attacks of a wannabe Trickster eagerly following in the original’s deadly footsteps.   The episode will reunite him with John Wesley Shipp who went up against him as the original ‘Flash’ on the CBS version.

Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg had this to say about the news:

“Having Mark reprise his role as The Trickster was on our original wish list when we were planning our version of The Flash.  Christmas and Chanukah came early for us this year when he said yes!  We are beyond humbled and excited to have him joining us for another round of deadly trickery!”

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Stars Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash, Rick Cosnett as Detective Eddie, Danielle Panabaker as Caitilin Snow, Candice Patton as Iris West, Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Wells, Jesse L. Martin as Detective West, and Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon, Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond, Michelle Harrison as Nora Allen, and John Wesley Shipp as Henry Allen.

‘The Flash’ airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m on The CW.