It’s been revealed that Routh, who starred in 2006’s Superman Returns, will once again be donning the familiar blue and red outfit for the CW’s upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. He and Tyler Hoechlin, the Arrow-verse’s reigning Man of Steel, will play Superman in two different timelines.
Routh also plays Ray Palmer/The Atom on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on the CW.
It has been announced that Burt Ward will appear in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. It hasn’t been announced which character Ward, who played Dick Grayson/Robin the Boy Wonder in the 1966 Batman TV series, movie, and assorted spinoffs will play. It’s been speculated he could simply play a retired Robin in his 70s. Or he could play loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth. It’s also likely he could play Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon.
God, I generally dislike television - and hate the way DC has continued to recycle Crisis - but the simple fact is that Legends of Tomorrow is one of the best, most bonkers things ever to appear on television.
And Routh was actually very good as Superman. It’s not his fault that Singer didn’t have a real handle on the character and script. Routh did his job and did it well.
I mostly blame Kate Bosworth, who was particularly unconvincing as Lois Lane, especially as she was supposed to be following the Margot Kidder version. All the other recent Loises - Amy Adams, Elizabeth Tulloch - have had great chemistry with their co-leads. Kate Bosworth, not so much.
Kevin Conroy has been added to the star-studded cast. Conroy, who is best known as the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the animated Batman series will play a future version of Bruce Wayne.
Also, Black Lightning, who had his own CW show, but is not part of the Arrowverse, has been confirmed to appear in the crossover.
Waiting to hear that Mark Hamill is playing a retired Joker (he’s “sane”, but then The Trickster starts showing up…)
Also watching for Louie Anderson as Bouncing Boy, Justin Bieber (and Kate McKinnon playing Justin Bieber) as the Wonder Twins, and Danny DeVito as Bat-Mite. Which of course leads to “The Dark Mite Returns”, directed by Tim Burton.
Hamill’s already appeared in The Flash as the original Trickster, serving life in prison (having been caught in the first Flash series from twenty years ago). Certain aspects of The Flash’s timeline don’t bear much thinking about.
Not quite. In the Flash (1990) universe Mark Hamill played a young-ish Trickster who battles the 1990 Flash and is eventually defeated by him. In the 2015 Flash, Mark Hamill plays an old-ish Trickster who committed crimes in the 1990s and was caught by the police, who then escapes prison in the 2015 time frame and battles the Flash.
So, the premise of this is that all of the various screen versions of DC characters are “real”, just on different worlds (which are, of course, now colliding)?
Essentially yes, for certain values of “screen.” I don’t think they’re be any tie-in to the DC Movie Universe. This is already set up in the CW shows. Arrow, Flash, and LoT are on one Earth. Supergirl is on another.