DC fans are still reeling from the cancellation of Naomi, Batwoman, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, with… legends It’s been trending constantly on social media since the news broke and fans were launching petitions, running billboard ads, and hashing yesterday at Warner Bros. Discovery. The cancellations came at a strange time for fans; Batuman It ended on a rather creepy and ambiguous note, and legends With a cliffhanger out. The producers said not to blame the network, or the studio, making it so vague that their call was to abruptly end CW’s “Arrowverse” (while Sparkle And Superman and Louis It still exists, the latter rarely acknowledging other performances and the former almost certainly racing toward the finish line next season).
The cancellations come at an uncertain time for Warner Bros. It was just acquired by Discovery, headed by David Zaslav, a CEO who didn’t worry about long-term damage to the Discovery brand when he saw that low-cost reality TV could make more money than the documentaries and educational programs the company was built on. Meanwhile, the CW is on the market, with Warner Bros. flirting. and Paramount buyers including Nexstar, a company that owns hundreds of local television stations and co-owns the Food Network and Cooking Channel with Discovery.
In other words, no one who was in a position to save offers, didn’t want to spend money to do so. One report indicated that Warner Bros. Discovery put the shows on hold because they simply didn’t want to renew the lease on the studio space. But with a very serious push either online or offline to save offers, is there any way to do that?
Yeah. But there is an asterisk here.
In case Batuman, the most obvious home of the show is HBO Max. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which also owns the DC and all of its IP addresses, Batuman It would be relatively easy to revive it if the company was so inclined (as is the case Naomi). legends It has a complication that others don’t, though: Netflix.
Prior to the launch of HBO Max and Paramount+, The CW was boosting its bottom line with a long-term Netflix licensing deal that pumped money into the pockets of all three parties. This is why so many of The CW’s shows are exclusive to Netflix outside of the US, and why most of them are potentially explosive in the weeks of airing after the season finale airs. After the release of Paramount+ and HBO Max, it was on Paramount’s CBS Studios and Warner Bros. Television’s reply to their corporate parents, who prioritized filling new broadcast platforms with needed content. So while legends of tomorrow And Sparkle Staying on Netflix (at least for now), it shows like BatumanAnd NaomiAnd Superman and Louis Found on HBO Max.
As a result, there has been some speculation that while DC owns the primary IP address, it is called Display The legends of tomorrow in the capital It might not be something HBO Max could make, even if they were very inclined, without paying Netflix. Given that such an acquisition would likely cost more than the season’s rent, it seems unlikely that it will.
If there is a passion to finish these stories, it can still be done – and like so many other things with DC and Marvel, comics can show the way.
Recently, DC began publishing Earth-Prime, the latest comic book series to take place within the Arrowverse. While SparkleAnd ArrowAnd super girl They all had cartoons associated once, it’s been years since they were a fixture, and with earth headDC, A New Approach: It’s an Anthology.
More specifically, it’s a six-part miniseries that brings together the various Arrowverse characters for the kind of crossover fans haven’t seen since. Crisis on Infinite Earths, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic that has further complicated imaging. But it also offers a blueprint for closing off the Arrowverse’s dangling plot lines.
that earth head It can capture not only TV shows or mini-series Batuman And The legends of tomorrow in the capitalbut bring back fan favorite characters from all shows, tell the untold story of failure Green Arrow and the Canary Islands pilot, and more. (called Arrow It would be a possibility, too, given that’s how fans know the world… but that largely means that elements of Arrow He must come back or else fans will be disappointed.) He will avoid any potential complications caused by legends of tomorrow Being a Netflix show, it offers some relatively low-cost content for HBO Max, which will have a guaranteed audience. if legends And Batuman Tomorrow fans are told “You’ve got four episodes coming up on DC’s anthology, and that’s it,” most of them will be glad to have a true finale.
Of course, the challenge here will be to get Warner Bros. The strange adventures The selections were recently canceled. While this show may have been esoteric, and didn’t have the same built-in fan base as the Arrowverse, it was also a DC anthology produced by Berlanti, so showing that exact concept on HBO Max for now may be a stretch. And while CW’s DC shows cost a fraction of what HBO Max spends on things like titans And Doom PatrolYou still have to figure out where to shoot it, if you’re too cheap to pay for your current studio space.
What do you think? Are you watching the Arrowverse anthology to wrap up BatumanAnd legendsSee some of your fan favorites again? Drop in the comments or shout out to @russburlingame on Twitter all things Arrowverse.
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