While Greg Berlanti has gotten plenty of due with Arrow, which continues to be one of the strongest offerings out of The CW these days, his time at the TCA this week was spent working on showing off The Tomorrow People, which is getting a CW slot this fall. When that presentation ended, it’s no surprise that questions went to the just announced Flash series that will be spinning out of the second season of Arrow. The script for the pilot will be written by him along with Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns of DC Comics, all of which have done work on Arrow. Not surprisingly, the pilot will be an origin story for Barry Allen.
“Barry Allen’s story always has been a favorite of mine,” Berlanti said, “as well as of Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns.” He confirmed that Barry, who will recur on Arrow next season, will show up around episode 8 or 9 and that casting on the project will begin this week. “We wanted everyone to know about the show as that process commenced,” Berlanti said. Why The Flash? “We think it fits well both in terms of (Arrow) and (as a stand-alone series).”
According to Deadline, he added that there’s a wide belief that Flash fits better as a television spinoff than would other characters in the DC Comics universe.
[Source: Deadline]
