ARROW Executive Producer Would Love To Have BATMAN On The Show

When asked just how many members of the Justice League he would like to have on Arrow, showrunner Marc Guggenheim immediately zeroed in on Batman. This makes sense, as Guggenheim and fellow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg used Christopher Nolan's realistic take on Batman as the premise for their show.

"At the end of the day it'd be so awesome to have Batman on the show. That'd be really cool. I don't think that will be happening anytime soon, but you never know…one day. One thing we're always saying…we never expected to have had the Huntress [Jessica De Gouw], Deathstroke [Manu Bennett] or Deadshot [Michael Rowe]; we ended up with a lot more DC Comics characters becoming part of the show than we had ever planned. It wasn't initially part of the pitch or the conception of the show. Now here we are in our third season and we've Flash [Grant Gustin] and the Suicide Squad and we're going to have Katana and we have Ray Palmer [Brandon Routh], and it seems like you could field an entire show off the characters that we have introduced on Arrow. That's so beyond anything we expected. That's a long-winded way of saying I've learned not to expect anything or make any predictions because the reality has far exceeded any of our initial predictions or initial conceptions."

What would be most interesting to see is the type of Batman that would appear on Arrow. Would it be a version of The Dark Knight similar to Christian Bale's ultra-realistic rendition? Or would it be a depiction that's closer to the traditional comic book incarnation, a crime fighting vigilante that's also a borderline super-genius who built the Batmobile and all of his own gadgets (although more and more comic book retcons are shying away from this version)? Odds are that with WB and DC Entertainment having such large plans for Batman, with Zack Snyder's Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and a possible solo-Batman film starring Ben Affleck in the works, it's likely that Gotham's watchful guardian will never appear on Arrow. The better question is probably whether Batman will appear on the in-development, TNT superhero drama, Titans, which will focus on former Boy Wonder, Dick Grayson.