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CW Eyeing ‘Atom’ As Next DC Series

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EPs Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Marc Guggenheim, acknowledged this morning they’re in “very early talks” on the “very general idea” of an Atom series, expanding their DC comic empire at CW, beyond Arrow and The Flash.
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Maybe it won't be the Atom but I'm sure that with the success of The Flash and Arrow there will be another DC superhero show on the CW.
 
They have said months ago they were planning a 3rd DC show at CW ( so not Supergirl which is for CBS) I was not expecting their choice to be the ATOM.
 
Oh, lordy. I love Arrow and The Flash, but am not sure I can take another superhero show in that mold...
 
Could be Atom, might be Firestorm. Or we might get blindsided altogether. I'd like a Blue Beetle / Booster Gold show, myself (and Ted Kord has been mentioned). But more than that, I'd like it if the Supergirl show still manages to be tied into the Arrow/Flash 'verse, even though it is on a different network - especially since it has already been made clear that Gotham and Constantine are not (although there have been hints from showrunners that they may connect to each other).
 
I can only imagine they'd wait to see the opening weekend of Ant-Man before green-lighting an Atom TV series...
 
Would Atom take Felicity? Or would she be expected to STAR in both shows until some one puts a ring on one of her lovely fingers... :)

I love a good wedding episode.

Someone always dies horribly.
 
Berlanti is making an absolute killing with DC TV verse. Pretty soon he'll have his own Justice League TV heroes without requiring the heavy movie hitters.

For DC it's staying ahead of the curve with Marvel with their own "Superhero who can shrink down to small size"

At least Routh will have a steady paycheck.
 
Samurai8472 said:
Berlanti is making an absolute killing with DC TV verse. Pretty soon he'll have his own Justice League TV heroes without requiring the heavy movie hitters.
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And rightly so, IMO - I like the direction the Arrow/Flash-verse has taken with everything one heck of a lot better than the last Superman movie or what I'm seeing so far of the coming Supes/Bat/WW thing. Or this Suicide Squad movie. Feh.
 
I've liked Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer on Arrow, so if he got his own show I'd happily watch it.
 
I think I would rather see a female hero debut. Although the Vixen cartoon gives me some hope in that direction. Katana or Stargirl would work.
The Atom feels just meh. Guess I need to see the whole suit and how its used and how good the shrink effects look on a tv budget.
 
As much as I like Arrow/Flash and the universe the PTBS have created, I'm wary of them expanding it too far, especially if Supergirl and Titans end up taking place in the same reality.
 
DigificWriter said:
As much as I like Arrow/Flash and the universe the PTBS have created, I'm wary of them expanding it too far, especially if Supergirl and Titans end up taking place in the same reality.
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I'm not, because even if they screw it up, they could just have a multi-episode cross-series event that reboots all of them, and it would still be totally true to the source material.

Especially if they screw that up somehow, too. :devil:
 
At some point, having so many superheroes existing in the same reality is going to push things beyond the limits of sustainability, especially since audiences will start wanting and expecting to see them all appear together frequently, which just isn't going to be feasible from a practical standpoint.

That's why I'm wary of the Arrow/Flash universe expanding too far.
 
DigificWriter said:
At some point, having so many superheroes existing in the same reality is going to push things beyond the limits of sustainability, especially since audiences will start wanting and expecting to see them all appear together frequently, which just isn't going to be feasible from a practical standpoint.

That's why I'm wary of the Arrow/Flash universe expanding too far.
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Why not?! Could actually be very easy, cutting each series short by an episode every year and replacing those episodes with parts of a big crossover event. Could actually work pretty nice, me thinks.
 
i'd agree with the oversaturation problem...with 3 Superhero shows, plus others..i won't be able to keep up. Now, if they follow the Agents of SHIELD route with mini series like Agent Carter --- think THAt would work.

Supergirl, Flash & Arrow on....and in between, Atom and 1 or 2 others...i'd go for that.
 
I wouldn't mind if they added more series to the Arrow/Flash universe. They've done a great job making the Flash and Arrow work in a shared universe, and I don't really see anything that would keep them from being able to add more. I actually would love to see what Berlanti and Kreisberg would do with Batman and Superman.
 
Welling, Dean Cain and possibly one of those kids who played live action Superboy on TV.

All in the same room, and none of them are Superman.

The irony is that Cavill will feel left out, and would have done the job for scale but they didn't think to ask him.
 
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Great to see Brandon Routh getting another shake of the superhero tree. Though, with WB/DC keeping their tv and film continuity separate, I would just have loved it if they'd cast him as a small-screen Superman. Yes, I know it's totally unrealistic but let a man dream.
 
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