Supergirl and The Flash Crossing Over for Musical Episodes This Season
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The Flash and
Supergirl, both starring
Glee alums and accomplished singers Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist, will crossover for a special two-part musical episode this season, in addition to the four-part crossover hitting all for DC shows on The CW.
The announcement came at the TCA presentation for The CW Thursday, opening up their DC TV shows panel with a bang. The crossover will include one episode of each series. While they plan to use "pre-existing songs" for the bulk of the musical numbers, they're exploring writing one original song for each episode, giving
The Flash and
Supergirl each their own brand-new song.
A musical episode for each of the two shows has been an oft-asked question, since both leads have sung - and even on TV - in the past. While karaoke teased the idea on
The Flash, most producers and stars, when asked, have simply said things like "that would be fun." Now, it's happening, and it's happening this season as part of a two-episode crossover.
"So many times, it's a musical episode off the set," EP Greg Berlanti said. "On all of the shows we like to use all of the actors' talents." He teased that there will "probably be an element of the songs being in the characters' heads," rather than them being a main plot point. While nothing is confirmed, Berlanti does hope to bring in some actors from
Arrowand
Legends of Tomorrow for a musical number or two, as well. Victor Garber, John Barrowman, and more actors have singing backgrounds, after all.
We will keep hope alive that Music Meister, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris on
Batman: The Brave and the Bold in a musical episode, will be the reason why they're suddenly singing.
Supergirl and
The Flash debut on Monday and Tuesday night at 8pm the first week of October, 2016.
Chris Wood To Play Mon-El in Supergirl
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After weeks of speculation and a Comic Con International: San Diego panel that gave away a few tantalizing bits of information but not the whole story, The CW today revealed that Chris Wood will play Mon-El in
Supergirl.
The character has been reinvented a few times over the years, but in all versions serves as a hero with abilities similar to those of Superman -- a Daxamite, an alien race with similar powers to Kryptonians but a weakness to lead instead of Kryptonite -- and most often he has ties to the Legion of Super-Heroes.
A Legion of Super-Heroes flight ring appeared in an episode of
The Flash and then again in an episode of
Supergirl last year. The team's last live-action appearance was on
Smallville.
Mon-El played a major role in the
World of New Krypton storyline, elements of which appeared in the first season of
Supergirl. It isn't clear whether his presence indicates more of that storyline playing through the show, or something with the Legion of Super-Heroes, or both.
The first season of
Supergirl ended on a pretty huge cliffhanger: a small, Kryptonian-looking rocket, nearly identical to the ones that brought Superman and Supergirl to Earth, crash-landed outside of National City. Upon opening it, Supergirl looked at its contents, surprised, and that was it.
We know that whoever she was looking at, was inside a rocket that appeared to be Kryptonian in design. But the real question is WHO could be inside a Kryptonian rocket, bound for Earth, just as the battle for the planet's survival wrapped up? And now we know.
Supergirl had the biggest debut of the 2015-2016 season, but lost about half of its viewers over the course of its first season. While it remained one of CBS's biggest shows, the cost of making the series is significant. It's reported that
Supergirl costs about $3 million per episode.
The show will head to Vancouver, where tax incentives will reduce the cost of production. In its first season,
Supergirl filmed in Los Angeles.
One of the highest-rated and most buzzed-about episodes of
Supergirl this year was its crossover with
The Flash. A move to The CW -- especially if the movie is also physical and production is relocated to Vancouver -- will mean an increase in crossover opportunities with the DC Universe set up at the network.
Supergirl shares executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg with
Arrow,
The Flash, and
DC's Legends of Tomorrow. A four-way crossover has already been promised for the coming broadcast season.
Besides Woods, actors Tyler Hoechlin and Ian Gomez have joined the cast as Superman and Snapper Carr, respectively.
Supergirl will air on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW starting in the fall.
