Spoilers follow for Black LightningSeason 3, Episode 9, “Earth Crisis.” “Earth Crisis” Black Lightning - “The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis” - Image Number: BLK309a_0836r.jpg - Pictured (L-R): Cress Williams as Jefferson, China Anne McClain as Lightning, James Remar as Gambi and Nafessa Williams as Anissa - Photo: Josh Stringer/The CW - © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. As the barrier between multiverse worlds blurs and wanes, Jennifer Pierce finds herself looking at doppelgangers from other worlds, where they were forced to make the choice she will soon be faced with. Despite that, the show found its own way to partake in the festivities. All rights reserved.īlack Lightning the character is part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, but the Black Lightning show itself isn’t. Given that the original 1985 comic book miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths ended with a single, streamlined continuity, it may actually be possible for Black Lightning to strike more than twice in the Arrowverse.Black Lightning - "The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis" - Image Number: BLK309a_0265r.jpg - Pictured: China Anne McClain as Lightning - Photo: Josh Stringer/The CW - © 2019 The CW Network, LLC.
“ wanted to come to Freeland, and I definitely wanted to come back to them.” “I hope it’s not a one-off thing,” Williams said. The door is open for those heroes, and others, to appear in Black Lightning’s neck in the woods. Williams teases in the Entertainment Weekly interview that Jefferson Pierce has significant reactions with The Flash (Grant Gustin), Rory (Dominic Purcell), Superman (Tyler Hoechlin), and Supergirl (Melissa Benoist). “Once we did that, it felt like we had elevated the crossover to another level,” Guggenheim said. While inhabiting different Earths in the multiverse is one thing, it was the miles between Atlanta, Georgia (where Black Lightning is filmed) and Vancouver (the entire Arrowverse) that was its own barrier. Guggenheim, who acted as “showrunner” of the crossover, worked with Black Lightning producer Salim Akil to sort out how Jefferson Pierce, a high school principal with lightning powers, can enter the Arrowverse. Tom Cavanagh, as "Pariah," with Cress Williams, as "Black Lightning." The CW He’s getting introduced into the world for the very first time, and so there’s some conflict early on when he’s trying to figure out, who are you people and why am I here?”
“Black Lightning gets pulled into the conflict in a very surprising way,” Williams said.
While it’s place in the continuity has been unclear, the crossover may finally confirm some theories that the show inhabits a parallel reality. Unlike the other DC superhero shows on The CW, Black Lightning, which premiered in 2018, does not take place in the Arrowverse like Arrow and The Flash. “Black Lightning’s in it much more than we ever anticipated, and he’s in it in a very significant way,” Guggenheim said. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Williams and producer Marc Guggenheim said Black Lightning’s appearance in “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” despite being a “last-minute” addition, will play a major role in the plot of the five-part special.
Black Lightning, played by Cress Williams in The CW series, is making his debut in DC’s television universe, and it could be the beginning of a bold new era for the character. Of all the heroes joining the Arrowverse in the crossover “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” one of them will last longer than just a flash of lightning.
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