‘Flash’ & ‘Arrow’ Get Renewals, ‘The Atom’ Potential & ‘Supergirl’ Details Surface
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“Each of these series have helped define what The CW is today, a network that is home to smart, provocative, quality programming, targeting a savvy adult audience,” said Pedowitz. “By picking up these shows now, our executive producers can start planning next season’s storylines, and rolling these shows out throughout next season guarantees The CW will have more proven original series for our fall, midseason and summer 2016 line-ups.”
In addition to that, some dialogue has surfaced from Arrow EP Marc Guggenheim where there may be a series for The Atom in our future. “The thing that we’ve been talking about is just how do we further expand the universe; and we love Brandon and we love having him on Arrow,” he said. “Brandon’s so terrific and embodies the role so well that when we talk about how to further expand things, he’s a natural person to talk about. It’s like Brandon said on the panel, originally when we met with him we just wanted to bring a great character onto the show and we wanted a great actor to play him. That’s really how it always starts. With the exception of Grant Gustin on Arrow last year, there’s never been a [decision] to bring in a character with the intention to spin them off. It’s always, ‘What services the show the best?’”
According to that interview with Guggenheim at the Nerdist , all of this is very preliminary but also reinforced that the characters inclusion in Arrow wasn’t about spinning him to his own series but rather finding a way to make the character add something to the overall narrative of Arrow itself.
On the Television Critics Association side again, Greg Berlanti field some questions about the Supergirl series that’s being developed for CBS. While casting should be coming soon, Berlanti did reveal that the tone of the show will be closer to The Flash than Arrow, which is certainly the right approach. Two other questions that got a bit more detail are certainly worth paying attention considering events of the last few years with films and shows and female characters:
People have clamoring for a female led superhero project. How are you guys approaching that element of it?
BERLANTI: That was really important to all of us when we set out to working on it and it was really important to DC and it was really important to the women I’m working on the show with, the women that work at the studio and the women that work on the network. In a lot of ways I’m surrounded by more women on the project that can answer the question better.
Did you learn any lessons from Wonder Woman?
BERLANTI: I think for us it’s always about learning more from our own mistakes and our own successes. So a show like Arrow and Flash without stuff I learned on Eli Stone and No Ordinary Family probably wouldn’t exist in terms of visual effects and stunts, things like that. Story wise, what we’ve learned on these shows, the thing we’ve always learned is how important casting is. If you’re right on the money and you have the kind of actors we have on these shows it just makes you look so much better.
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