The Flash season 7 will feature an unpredictable new format
The Flash season 7 will be affected by the shooting delays, but showrunner Eric Wallace reveals how it will feature an unpredictable new format.
The Flash season 7 will hopefully arrive on our TV screens in January 2021.
The CW’s long-running Arrowverse show was initially expected to return for its seventh season in its usual early October slot, but current world events have made that impossible. And it appears that those current world events will continue to impact the show when it returns.
The Flash‘s sixth season was cut short when production had to be shut down due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. As 19 of the planned 22 episodes had only been completed, episode 19 “Success Is Assured” had to serve as the season finale. As a result, the show didn’t get to deliver its usual finale twist – one that, according to showrunner Eric Wallace, they had been planning to deliver.
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In a recent interview with TVLine, Wallace revealed that the twist – which is expected to feature Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash (Tom Cavanagh) – will still take place, but that it will now take place in the early part of the next season instead, adding that this has “really affected our storytelling for all of Season 7”.
As for how that will affect the show? Well, Wallace has confirmed that, while his acclaimed “Graphic Novel” approach will be returning for The Flash season 7, it will be in a much more unpredictable way. He commented:
"“Amid the horror and the tragedy of what’s happening with this pandemic, if we can find some kind of lemonade in the lemon, it’s us having to rethink a few things about how a Flash season looks, given this ‘narrative unpredictability’ to the season… There are going to be more Graphic Novels next year, but they’re not going to be broken up in the way I think folks expect.”"
The show’s sixth season introduced this Graphic Novel approach. The first half of the season was focused on the origins of Ramsey Rosso/Bloodwork (Sendhil Ramamurthy) before Crisis On Infinite Earths paved the way for the Black Hole/Mirror Master/Joseph Carver saga.
This approach was well-received by fans – and rightly so, as it allowed the show to run much smoother than it had in recent years.
The idea of them changing it up next season sounds very exciting indeed!
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