
N: It sounds unique in that it will have an armor component but not be CG like Iron Man’s suit. We did it because this is a cool thing to have on Arrow. One of the things I like about it is we did it without consideration of a spinoff. Brandon just did his third fitting with it, and it’s the most ambitious costume we’ve ever done on the show. It’s her best costume, and that’s really saying something. MG: No, the costume is just “How do we get it to work on Arrow?” Maya Mani did the design that she always does.
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N: Is that something you’ve kept in mind when designing his costume, about whether it could work in an Atom series as well as on episodes of Arrow? MG: Yeah, we’ve talked in the most preliminary of ways about doing something with Brandon beyond Arrow. N: Thus far your discussions about an Atom show have been preliminary? It’s always, “What services the show the best?” With the exception of Grant Gustin on Arrow last year, there’s never been a to bring in a character with the intention to spin them off. It’s like Brandon said on the panel, originally when we met with him we just wanted to bring a great character onto the show and we wanted a great actor to play him.
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Brandon’s so terrific and embodies the role so well that when we talk about how to further expand things, he’s a natural person to talk about. And Ray really brings that and brings that energy and he’s so much fun to write. So we wanted to create a character that could vibrate at her frequency. When we met with Brandon, the whole point of Ray Palmer for us - not the whole point but a big piece of Ray Palmer - was… Felicity’s voice is of a different show and we always say that Emily’s playing tennis against herself. N: He brings a new dynamic to the show in his scenes with Emily Bett Rickards’ Felcity, a kind of screwball comedy vibe. MARC GUGGENHEIM: The thing that we’ve been talking about is just how do we further expand the universe and we love Brandon and we love having him on Arrow. NERDIST: You just mentioned you’ve given some consideration to an Atom spin-off series… But we caught up with Guggenheim immediately afterwards, who elaborated on why Routh’s character deserves his own show, and what fans can expect when his Atom suit is finally unveiled on Arrow!

While speaking on the CW’s Arrow/Flash panel Berlanti said he’s not allowed to say any more about the spin-off. Today at the Television Critics Association’s annual Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Arrow and Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti revealed that he and his fellow producers Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are in early talks about an Atom spin-off series starring Brandon Routh, whose Ray Palmer is set to become DC’s iconic mighty mite in the second half of Arrow‘s current third season.
