Characters from
Black Lightning will make an appearance in the network’s forthcoming
Arrowverse crossover “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the network confirmed at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Sunday morning.
Black Lightning is
separate from the Arrowverse shows since it premiered in 2018; however, the premise of this year’s crossover made this the right time to bring
Black Lightning into the fold, according to CW president Mark Pedowitz.
“The whole theory of ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ is that alternative universes collapse,” Pedowitz told reporters Sunday. “This is a DC property. We felt that it might be the right time if [executive producer Salim Akil] was interested in doing it. We had a conversation with Salim, and he said, yes, it made a lot of sense to make the connection at this point. He’s in his own universe. He is doing his own thing. We would have done it if he had not signed off on it."