The Arrow, The Flash , Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow crossover episodes set for the fall all have finished scripts, Executive Producer Greg Berlanti confirmed to Indiewire . Now, onto the real challenge: the production.
“You really are trying to run a single production across three different productions. But they’re run as three separate entities. We have to figure out when we’re borrowing one actor from where,” Berlanti said talking about the crossover event.
The crossover episodes, expected to air in late November, add up to 180 pages of material, according to Berlanti. The four-episode arc originates in Central City, then trickles into Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow later in the week. We assumed the four-way crossover would be a Monday through Thursday event, but considering Supergirl hasn’t officially been introduced to the Arrow-verse, it makes sense the story doesn’t begin in National City.
“We’re telling one cohesive story; Supergirl will participate, but the storyline doesn’t actively begin there. There are some characters who show up in her episode, but the story begins with The Flash episode and goes to Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow,” Berlanti explained. “It’s very daunting when you hold them all together like that. Each one of these pages is 10 hours of shooting and a visual effects extravaganza. But hopefully it feels like a great kind of crossover comic book sell.”
Stephen Amell teased the event in early August, when he posted a photo of Arrow, White Canary, The Flash, Atom and Supergirl’s boots in a circle.
We’ll have to wait and see just how far The Flash Season 3 carries the Flashpoint arc in order to know more about the details of the crossover. At this point, we can’t rule out the plot being Flashpoint-related. If not, will DC TV’s heroes face one big bad, or a team of villains such as the newly announced Legion of Doom, consisting of Captain Cold, Damien Darhk, Reverse Flash, and Malcolm Merlyn? Coincidentally (or maybe not so coincidentally), all these characters have been cast as series regulars across all shows.
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