Batman on 'Arrow'?

Even Arrow show runner Marc Guggenheim was surprised at how many DC characters ended up on the show.

"Now here we are in our third season and we’ve Flash [Grant Gustin] and the Suicide Squad and we’re going to have Katana and we have Ray Palmer [Brandon Routh], and it seems like you could field an entire show off the characters that we have introduced on Arrow. That’s so beyond anything we expected."

In the least bold, most obvious comment of all time, Guggenheim talked about the possibility of seeing the Caped Crusader on the CW series.

"At the end of the day it’d be so awesome to have Batman on the show. That’d be really cool. I don’t think that will be happening anytime soon, but you never know … one day. One thing we’re always saying … we never expected to have had the Huntress [Jessica De Gouw], Deathstroke [Manu Bennett] or Deadshot [Michael Rowe]; we ended up with a lot more DC Comics characters becoming part of the show than we had ever planned. It wasn’t initially part of the pitch or the conception of the show."

But even he knows it might be a long shot at this point, especially with Gotham on the air on FOX.

"That’s a long-winded way of saying I’ve learned not to expect anything or make any predictions because the reality has far exceeded any of our initial predictions or initial conceptions."

If I had to guess, I’d say it would be unlikely to see many of these properties not on the CW crossover. That includes the upcoming Supergirl show and the proposed Titans series. It’s not out of the realm of possibility, but it isn’t likely. Most networks hate dividing their ratings or giving anything to the other guy.

Source: THR

Batman on ‘Arrow’?

By Skip Harvey | Jan 6, 2015