While there is still one upcoming DC show on The CW – Superman and Lois , which will return this fall on the 2024 TV schedule – the heyday of superhero shows on this network is long gone. Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow , Black Lightning and Batwoman dominated the network’s programming between 2012 and 2023, and they’d occasionally come together for epic crossovers, creating quite an interconnected world. However, those Arrowverse moments were not easy to make, and a producer got real about just how challenging it was to coordinate this television universe and their crossover events.
Marc Guggenheim , who served as the co-creator of Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow and an executive producer on Supergirl, The Flash and Batwoman , got real about the headache-inducing logistics of planning crossovers on Multiverse of Color . He said these events were some of the hardest things to do when it came to these shows, and explained why, saying: Sometimes the biggest challenge, honestly, was the crossovers. And you know, again, this was something that hadn’t been done during this era of television.
It hadn’t been done on the scale that we were attempting it. That was again a very good example of us learning on the job. There was certainly a struggle of, ‘How much money are we going to spend on these things?’ They get expensive very very fast.
Adding to that, he broke down everything they had to consider when creating crossovers. They were dealing with multi.
