After last year’s big crossover between Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, executive producer Marc Guggenheim has revealed that they’ll be taking a different approach when the DC heroes reunite again this year – focussing instead on raising the emotional stakes and payoffs rather than trying to outdo the ‘Invasion!’ arc in terms of scale and scope.
“If we end up doing what we’re talking about doing, it’s going to be pretty cool,” Guggenheim tells EW. “The crossover is always the most challenging thing we do, but it’s also the most fun. Every year we feel the pressure [to top ourselves]. I feel like each crossover has topped the previous one. Topping last year’s, that’s a high bar, if for no other reason than what do you do that’s bigger than aliens? We’ve got some very, very exciting ideas…. Very early on in the process of doing last year’s crossover, Greg Berlanti said there’s probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can’t increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that’s a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.”
Supergirl will return to The CW on Monday, October 9th, followed by The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on Tuesday, October 10th and Arrow on Thursday, October 12th.
Originally published July 6, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
