The CW ’s Arrowversewas once the lecture of the superhero town , and arguably DC ’s more successful live - action venture in the 2010s . But in recent long time , the meshwork ’s superhero outings have allbeen shuttered , with Superman & Lois endure as the last Arrowverse hurrah forone more season .
In a recent audience withTheWrap , CW ’s amusement chair Brad Schwartz and overall troupe chairwoman Dennis Miller talked about keeping some shows from the old regime . Superman & Lois has apparently performed quite well in premature season , but it was allegedly Warner Bros. ’ call to crest it at four seasons . “ They do n’t want a competing Superman merchandise in the mart , ” Schwartz excuse , effectively position the blame for the show ’s end at 2025’sSuperman : Legacyfrom James Gunn .
This is n’t the first clock time the Arrowverse has been put in this attitude : WB asked Arrow ’s creators to put in several Suicide Squad regulars like Deadshot and Amanda Waller in its show toget audiences used to thembefore their silver medal screen debut . The show was also apparently keen to do something withHarley Quinn , but those plans had to be junked once she was a principal lead in the flick . Both Deadshot and Waller , along with Katana , were killed off or vanish . The same was true ofDeathstroke , who was a recurring character reference on the show : when it seemed like he ’d be mystify asolo movie(or be the villain in a planned solo movie for Ben Affleck ’s Batman ) , Arrow ’s Deathstroke had to take the air into the mist , never to be seen again .
Image: The CW/Warner Bros.
It ’s a unearthly situation DC has put the Arrowverse in , least of all because it countenance Grant Gustin ’s version of the Flash joint around for Ezra Miller ’s ( potential ) total tenure as the Flash in the movies . Batman ’s also been fairly nontaxable from this dominion , since Gotham was on during Affleck ’s Bat - tenure , and Robert Pattinson ’s variation is develop to co - survive with the evental Bats who ’ll headlineThe Brave & the Bold .
However , it ’s also worth note that the newfangled CW regime is about saving ( and eventually pretend ) money lose by the sometime bosses . Schwartz even admit when he and Miller came onboard , the web had “ lose a lot of money . ” And like WB Discovery , it ’s in a penny - pinching move : Superman & Loishas had to dump several longtime series regulars and writers for its final season , and the sequence count has been slimmed down from a standard 13 - 15 range to just 10 . Schwartz similarly toldTheWrapother stager shows like All American and Walker will stick around on the internet … as long as their budgets stay relatively the same .
Either way , four seasons is a firm runnel for any show , and getting too long in the tooth has long been an issue with the medium ( particularly ones on this connection ) . It ’s not ideal , but at least Superman & Lois gets to go out on its own terms and deliver as much of an end as it can .
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