Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim discusses Constantine’s appearance on last night’s episode as well as whether the character might return.
Sorry Hellblazer fans. Guggenheim says that there are “no plans” to bring Constantine back. “This was always designed to be a one off,” he tells Deadline.
Besides helping restore Sara’s soul, Constantine also appeared in the episode’s flashbacks. And in a display of magic, he gave Oliver the tattoo on his torso. According to Guggenheim, “Originally our intention was to do something different with the tattoo. We were actually going to reveal something completely different, non-mystical about the tattoo last year with the Hong Kong story line.”
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However, the writers have so much material to fit into a season that some stories fall by the wayside, and that tattoo story was one of them. But when the Constantine story rolled around, writer “Brian [Ford Sullivan] came to us with this really terrific pitch. We instantly loved it, and you haven’t seen the last of that tattoo playing an important role in season 4.”
Having Constantine take Oliver down into the crypt on Lian Yu was also significant for the rest of the season. “By having Constantine in the flashbacks, we actually had a character who could get out an important piece of exposition about the nature of the island that does explain why the events that we’ve been seeing on the island have been transpiring. It was all just everything very organically all coming into place.”
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However, more than just serving a story purpose, Guggenheim says they were excited to bring in Constantine because “[w]e really do it for the love of the game, and you know, when you get a chance to bring a beloved character played by a beloved actor off of a beloved show into this little world you’ve created that’s really, really special.”
As for the upcoming Arrow/Flash crossover, Guggenheim teases, “This is a big two-part event, one single bad guy, and it will very clearly launch Legends Of Tomorrow. But at the same time what I think is a lot of fun about it is that it doesn’t feel like a backdoor pilot for Legends Of Tomorrow. It feels like an episode of Flash and then an episode of Arrow. It truly is a 2-hour Flash/Arrow event that just so happens to introduce us to some new characters who will be a big part of Legends Of Tomorrow.”
Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on The CW.
Source: Deadline
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