The Flash's Andrew Kreisberg Won't Rule Out using Starman On the Show
During a new MTV interview in support of the just-released The Flash: Season Zero #1, The [...]
During a new MTV interview in support of the just-released The Flash: Season Zero #1, The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg confirmed that the circus Barry faces down in the comic is indeed the same one from James Robinson's celebrated run on Starman -- and that it's not outside of the realm of possibility that characters from that comic might show up on The Flash.
Since Robinson ended the series, Jack Knight has remained mostly retired, making only brief, cameo appearances, with DC having said that if there's going to be a big story featuring that version of Starman, it will be Robinson who writes it. The closest Robinson has come to revisiting the character was The Shade, his New 52 series that featured supporting characters from Starman.
That series launched 20 years ago this month and has become one of DC's most enduring and praised mainstream superhero books of its time. And, apparently, the "no using Robinson's characters" rule will be honored, at least in the comics.
"Not in the comic book," Kreisberg told MTV when asked whether Jack Knight or Mikaal Tomas might show up in the series. "As for the show itself, we always keep our options open. When we started "Arrow," if you had told me that we would have two TV shows that would have Ray Palmer, and Ronnie Raymond, and Helena Bertinelli, and Slade Wilson, I would have said you were nuts. And you would have been right! [Laughs] We take these things as we come. As always with these things, we want to our superhero to be the star of his own comic."
That last bit probably means no Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman in the title, even though presumably they could be used in the comics to prove they exist in the Arrowverse without the TV series using them and running afoul of the movie division at Warner Bros.
