By Marc Guggenheim, the creator of The CW’s DC Comics-inspired series “Arrow” and “Legends of Tomorrow,” has cleared up online reports that swirled not that long ago regarding something he said.
Specifically, a quote from Guggenheim seemed to tease that there once were plans for a potential TV series that would see Brandon Routh reprising the Superman role.
Routh, of course, played the character in 2006’s “Superman Returns”. However he also played a different incarnation of him for the high-profile “Crisis on Infinite Earths” event series in the Arrowverse.
Now, in a new blog post, Guggenheim explained how the quote he made was misinterpreted and got out of hand:
“A follower asked if I had any promotional photos of [Brandon] Routh as Superman from the Crisis on Infinite Earths event that I showran.
Thinking nothing of it, I posted what I had on my Dropbox and casually mentioned – because I thought it was a fun little nugget – that Brandon and I had talked about some kind of ‘sequel series’ for his version of Superman.
Well, that little comment kinda went viral. A friend of mine, a comic shop owner, texted me that suddenly his Facebook feed was nothing but articles about the comment – some of which exaggerated said comment into a ‘possibility’ (there is none that I can reasonably conceive of) or even ‘talks’ (which haven’t happened, unless you count Brandon’s and my little chats).
I share because it’s (a) an amusing anecdote that demonstrates how even the most innocuous of comments can, occasionally, go viral; and (b) a great example of how much love there still is for the Arrowverse.”
Guggenheim has also shared concept art that the team of “Legends of Tomorrow” worked up for the Crisis version of what they dubbed ‘SuperBrandon’. That art can be found at Guggenheim’s blog.
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