Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-26452493-20170524131004/@comment-5635877-20170601213558

I don't think anyone is suggesting he's been fired, he's under contract as far as I'm aware. There seems to been a change within DC and Warner Bros towards their policy of a character being played by two different actors on TV and Cinema. That seems to have changed with Superman appearing in Supergirl but the character is dead in the later. Same as Anatoli Knyazev being allowed back on Arrow.

Slade and Digger were allowed to be used on Arrow not only because The Batman and Suicide Squad 2 are 2 years or more from release, but some very big names from the show appealed to DC and WB. Whether that will transpond to a characters making more than one-off appearances, we simply don't know at this time.

Like Dragonfly82 said, we will wait and see.