The CW is finally offering up some firm answers on whether DC Comics fans can finally expect to see Batman in the Arrowverse for the possible Batwoman TV series.
It was announced at the Upfronts in May that this year’s multi-night crossover event would introduce Batwoman and Gotham City, in what CW boss Mark Pedowitz promised would be a “full-throttled action-packed event”.
The announcement got such a warm reception that The CW started working on a standalone Batwoman pilot, with The Vampire Diaries veteran Caroline Dries at the helm.
This development understandably led to questions about whether Batman would appear. At the TCA press tour on Monday (August 6), CW boss Mark Pedowitz confirmed that “Batman already exists in the Arrowverse”, following several references to him by Oliver Queen in Arrow.
That said, Pedowitz doesn’t expect to see the Dark Knight teaming up with Batwoman if her series does eventually end up on the network.
“Batwoman lives in Gotham, but there are no plans at this time to have Batman appear,” he clarified (via TVLine).
A crossover may have been ruled out because rival network Fox is set to fully integrate Batman into the final season of its own DC Comics series Gotham.
The Batwoman series would make Kate Kane the highest-profile LGBTQ+ hero in the DCTV universe, since her character’s name would presumably be in the title of her series.
This Kate Kane incarnation of Batwoman was created in 2006 as a major reinvention for a hero who’d previously been more of a footnote in DC Comics lore dating back to the late 1950s.
Kate is the cousin of Bruce Wayne, and has made history for being one of the most high-profile lesbian and Jewish superheroes in comics today.
DC TV offered a sneak peek at its version of the character during Comic-Con International with a trailer that featured an animated Batwoman, as well as allusions to Gotham City and the Bat-Signal:
Prior to Monday’s TCA session, Pedowitz described the Batwoman series as being in “early stages of development at this point” while chatting to Deadline, but reports suggest an LGBTQ+ actress is being eyed for the part.
As for the pilot’s chances of making it to to series, the CW executive stressed: “We’ll do a pilot for mid-season, whether it goes to series, I cannot tell you. We have five (DC shows) on the air and just added a sixth night.”
The multi-night Batwoman crossover is set to air across the Arrowverse in December on The CW in the US and Sky One in the UK.
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