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Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths to be 5-Part Crossover

Just read over the weekend that Brandon Routh will once again play Superman for the upcoming Crisis crossover. Though I didn't care for "Superman Returns" I do enjoy how the CW is including the fringes. Maybe we can get a Burt Ward or Cathy Lee Crosby cameo?

Over the decades, Cathy Lee Crosby (and the 1974 Wonder Woman TV movie she headlined) had been treated (more often than not) in a manner similar to some wicked, 19th century families who locked away their family "shame" in the basement, away from public view. Oh, they have acknowledged its existence as a matter of record in books and a few documentaries, but there's never been a lot of love or respect for the film, or Crosby, for that matter. Unless the Berlanti group has a soft spot for Crosby or her lone turn as WW, I would not expect her to show up.

What's ironic is that the Crosby Wonder Woman was the first mainstream (as in Big Two publishers) superhero to be adapted in more real world, less fantasy/spectacle terms--something that would take root (in some significant comic book movies) nearly four decades later.
 
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No, I think it just means that the video was made by The CW's publicity people as a promotion for their network. After all, they included Black Lightning even though it's separate (so far) from the Arrowverse shows.
Oh, OK, I was just surprised to see the different name.

Just read over the weekend that Brandon Routh will once again play Superman for the upcoming Crisis crossover. Though I didn't care for "Superman Returns" I do enjoy how the CW is including the fringes. Maybe we can get a Burt Ward or Cathy Lee Crosby cameo?
Burt Ward is also going to be on, but there is no word yet on who he's playing.
 
The universe began with Arrow. That's not going to change just because the show ended; its legacy will always be there. So there's no reason to change the name. They didn't rename Ford Motors when Henry Ford died.

Nor did Twentieth-Century Fox change its name on January 1st, 2000. :)
 
Nor did Twentieth-Century Fox change its name on January 1st, 2000. :)

In fact, News Corporation (Fox's owners) did spin off a film/TV arm called 21st Century Fox in 2013, as the corporate entity that owned the Fox Entertainment Group, including the 20th Century Fox film/TV studio. But it's now been swallowed up by Disney.

By the way, something that most people wouldn't care about but that you might enjoy knowing as an editor: For the first 50 years, the hyphenation of the company name was actually 20th Century-Fox, counterintuitively, because it was formed in 1935 as the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film. When Rupert Murdoch acquired it in 1985, it became just 20th Century Fox, no hyphen.
 
I'm still hoping for Perry White at some point, he's pretty much the last major Superman character we haven't seen yet.
 
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