While we have yet to see how an expanded DC Universe plays out on movie screens, The CW has been doing exceptional work with world-building with Arrow and The Flash. They’ve managed to make both stand alone as their own entities, but crossovers have worked very well in the past. That shared universe is about to get even bigger with the addition of Legends of Tomorrow in 2016, and both shows are working to set up the new supergroup.
There will be another crossover episode later in the season, and according to Arrow star Stephen Amell, it’s going to be a doozy. In an interview with Zap2it on the Vancouver set, Amell had a lot to say about crossovers past and future.
“Last year was designed so that if you were a fan of one show or a fan of the other show, you could enjoy 108 of ‘Flash’ and 308 of ‘Arrow’ independent of one another. It’s not the case this year. If you put them back to back on one night, they would run like one two-hour episode of television.
In fact, most of the ‘Flash’ episode takes place in Star City, and most of the ‘Arrow’ episode takes place in Central City. We have a common villain, which was not the case last year, and just in general, we’ve done an excellent job of weaving not just two shows, but three shows together. […]
I think these crossover episodes standing together will probably be, in my mind, the pinnacle achievement for both shows. We shot a scene that had, like, nine superheroes in it. Nine people with either powers or super suits. It was an amazing thing to look at, to look out over the scene and see the world that has been built over the course of three-plus years.”
As the scale of the shows get bigger and bigger, fans have high hopes for Legends of Tomorrow and hope that the set up is sufficiently epic. If Amell is to be believed, we have nothing to worry about.
(Via Zap2it, Comics Alliance)
