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Arrow And The Flash News Round-Up

There has been a lot of Arrow / The Flash news lately, but most of it has come out in bits and pieces. So instead of listing them individually I'm going to try and summarize them all here.

Building to the Justice League: Geoff Johns stated that unlike Marvel, DC's film and television characters will not share the same universe. This led to speculations that both could then move to their own versions of the Justice League. On Collider, show executive producer and writer Andrew Kreisberg addressed the possibility.

Yeah.  There really aren't that many characters that we've asked to use, that we haven't gotten access to.  Fortunately for us, with Arrow, we were able to bring on Deathstroke and The Huntress, and this year we have Katana.  It was actually DC comics' idea for us to use Ray Palmer/The Atom.  On The Flash, with Geoff Johns, our partner, we've carved out this whole world of characters that we have access to.  There are the big ones that fit into the Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman mythos, but since we're not using those characters, they're subsidiary characters don't really feel necessary to us.  We never feel like we're confined.  We're more impressed that we get to play with as many characters as we do.  By the end of this season, on both shows, we'll have Green Arrow, Black Canary, Katana, The Atom, Firestorm and The Flash.  We've got a pretty good chunk of the Justice League, on both shows.  We never look at ourselves as limited.  We just look at ourselves as blessed that we get to play with as many of these characters as we do.  You always want your lead to be the coolest character on the show.  If you've got Green Arrow and The Flash, why would you want Batman and Superman around?  I think we've figured out how to do those characters really well.  There's something very distancing about Superman and Batman that I think works so well in the features, but that I'm not sure would necessarily lend themselves to a weekly series.  We're very happy with the characters that we have.

What about Constantine in the TV Justice League? Not happening. Another executive producer and writer of The Flash and Arrow, Marc Guggenheim told Green Arrow TV that the mention of Ivy University in the pilot for Constantine is coincidental to Ray Palmer (a professor at Ivy) being added to Arrow. The CW and NBC series are not part of a shared universe.

When we do our Easter eggs, they're never in conjunction with other DC Easter eggs.

And yet another executive producer and writer for Arrow, Greg Berlanti, was talking at the Television Critics Association press tour and teased a bit about season 3. Staring with the big bad for the year and how it will feel different.

The incoming adversary has some personal elements of connectivity to Oliver, which we'll learn about in flashback. Hopefully, fans of the DC Universe will be really pleased by who it is.

And as for a love interest.

Oliver believes he can finally have a private life and asks Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) out on a date. They're real characters to us, and they had that conversation on the beach, and they had that conversation in the house to help capture Slade, So the question you have to ask is: Does Oliver have real, genuine emotions for her? And how aware is he of that? And how aware does he make her of that? That is an active part of the season this year.

One little hiccup in the Oliver / Felicity romance line, Sara isn't as gone "forever" as the season finale may have made us think. Caity Lotz will be back for the season opener and the title for the second episode is Sara. But with her father, Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) near dead you'd have to figure she'd return at some point early on.

Now that whole shared universe thing may mean no Batman or Superman on the CW… but what about Lex Luthor? The Man of Steel fan page tweeted this image from the filming of The Flash.

One of our writer's, Matthew, saw this around #TheFlash set today in Vanouver. Hmmm. #LuthorCorp pic.twitter.com/pLPRUDTK5d

— Man of Steel Fanpage (@ManofSteelFanPg) July 19, 2014

And to end this with a bang, the CW's Mark Pedowitz was asked about Wonder Woman coming back to television since the network had passed on a Smallville-style series already called Amazon.

If she is and we can get the right script we will do it. One of the nice things is that a lot of the other broadcasters and cable networks have done comic book characters based on the success of Arrow. So for our purposes, it is a rich source material, we know what the mythology is, and if you have the right superhero character you go for it.

We'll have to wait and see what type of news we'll get for the two series at this week's Comic-Con.

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