Arrow/Flash Producer Gives Supergirl Casting Update
Arrow/The Flash producer Greg Berlanti gives an update on casting the Supergirl series and the crossover potential with CW's DC series.
11 JAN 2015 BY ERIC GOLDMAN
Since CBS’s
Supergirl series was announced, fans have wondered if it will exist in the same universe as Arrow and The Flash. With executive producer
Greg Berlanti behind all three series and CBS co-owning the CW, it’s certainly much more likely than, say, Constantine being able to do a crossover and we’ve already heard that there is a strong possibility.
At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, CW president Mark Pedowitz was asked the question but deflected giving a definitive answer, saying, “You can ask Greg!” And so that’s exactly what we did, as I was among a group of journalists who spoke to Berlanti following The Flash/Arrow panel today.
The busy producer gave an update on Supergirl’s casting process, the show’s tone and, yes, the potential for crossovers.
Question: Anything you can say about Supergirl and what the tone of that show is and also if we’re going to hear about casting soon?
Greg Berlanti: I hope you’re going to hear about casting soon or we’re not going to be able to make the pilot! I would say, tonally closer to Flash than Arrow. That’s probably the best way to say it.
Question: Do you mean it'll be more romantic?
Berlanti: Well the nature of the character is a bit, and who we have in her life and who we’re surrounding her with. Also, tonally, I thought of those kind of characters as [strongly] DC Universe and I’m sure Geoff [Johns] would agree. And they both died in Crisis of Infinite Earths! So they’re similar.
Question: Is there crossover potential for Supergirl with Arrow or The Flash?
Berlanti: So much has to go right for us to be able to make a great show. Again, I think of myself as like if I were watching them, I would want to see that. But we have to get so many things right to make a good show and so much of it is luck, unfortunately.
Question: People have been clamoring to see a female superhero have her own project. Can you talk about how you’re approaching the idea of a female in the superhero world?
Berlanti: That was really important to all of us when we set out on 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 and the women that work in the studio and the women that work at the network. In a lot of ways, I’m surrounded by more women on the project that could answer that question better.
Question: Are you looking at things like what didn’t work in the Wonder Woman pilot?
Berlanti: I think it’s more, for us, always more learning 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 or stunts or things like that. And storywise, what we learn on these shows, a thing that we always learn is just 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.
Question: How’s the casting process coming? What are the challenges?
Berlanti: As with all these things, there’s only one person, right? That’s the thing. I can’t imagine someone other than a lot of our actors playing these roles so I feel like you’re always just looking for who’s that person.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01...ergirl-casting-and-the-big-crossover-question
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