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When asked about how the return came about, Routh began, “Early April, I think. [Arrowverse executive producer] Marc Guggenheim reached out to me to kind of float the idea and take my temperature about the possibility of that.”
“Well, he said that they were doing the Crisis storyline and that they were going to have the Legends and Ray Palmer be a big part of it,” the actor elaborated. “But also since they were involving multiple earths and universes, that there was a potential if I was interested for me to show up in a different suit as well. That’s the way he kind of pitched it. And so I said, “Look, I’m really honored that you would ask and it sounds like a really great thing, but I just want to take a moment to sit with it to make sure that it’s the right decision for me to revisit the character.” I obviously said yes later.”
Guggenheim deserves a ton of credit for reaching out to so many people and getting some very high-profile commitments. The result is something that every superhero fan can find a bit of joy in.
“It’s fun because [Routh] gets to not only play Superman but also Clark Kent, and watching him inhabit those two roles…I say two roles because he plays them obviously very differently from one another,” Guggenheim explained to EW. “We also had the opportunity to see Brandon act opposite himself, because Ray Palmer is in the crossover as well. We certainly wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity for Superman played by Brandon Routh to interact with Ray Palmer played by Brandon Routh.”
Crisis on Infinite Earths returns in January.
