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Marc Guggenheim discusses The CW’s new DC animated series Vixen, and crossing over with Arrow and The Flash

January 13, 2015 by Gary Collinson

During the Television Critics Association press tour, it was announced that The CW is expanding its DC universe with an animated series based around the character of Vixen, which will take place in the same continuity as the hit superhero shows Arrow and The Flash. During an interview with Comic Book Resources, executive producer Marc Guggenheim has spoken about the project, and whether we might see the character making her live action debut in the future.

“We’re going to do basically an animated spinoff. It’s going to center on Vixen who, for me, I came to know as a former member of the Justice League.  It’s a six-part origin story, but characters from Flash and Arrow are prominently involved. It’s in the continuity and the world. There’s actually a question I’ve been getting on Twitter a lot, “Is Oliver going to find out that Felicity kissed Barry?” That’s actually going to happen in the Vixen cartoon. Part of the fun is that close cohesion. And Vixen’s such a great character. First of all, she represents magic, which is an area that we haven’t explored on either of the two shows just yet. One thing we’re always saying is, ‘Flash is very different from Arrow, Arrow is very different from Flash.’ If Arrow is crime and The Flash is science, Vixen has a big magic component. The other thing is, it’s a strong African-American hero who’s, like I said, a former Justice Leaguer. It’s set in Detroit, as a nod towards those Justice League [Detroit] stories. It’s done with the same love of the source material that we bring to everything.”

As for whether the animated series could lead to a live-action outing for Vixen, Guggenheim admitted they were open to the idea: “We always say ‘never say never,’ and if the character resonates with people, that would be wonderful. I would love to be in a position where CW said to us, ‘Hey, we want a Vixen live-action show.’ That’d be wonderful. We’ll have to sort of see how things play out. But our goal really is to produce the highest-quality animated series. We want people to come to this who don’t normally watch an animated show. We really want fans of The Flash and fans of Arrow to go to CW Seed. We really tried to approach it the same way we approach a pilot.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL18yMRIfoszH_jfuJoo8HCG1-lGjvfH2F&v=usnScWU5JkY&feature=player_embedded

Originally published January 13, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Arrow, DC, The Flash, Vixen

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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