ARROW And AGENT CARTER Showrunners Compare Notes On Marvel And DC

ARROW And AGENT CARTER Showrunners Compare Notes On Marvel And DC

For the record, Arrow EP Marc Guggenheim and Agent Carter showrunner Tara Butters are husband-and-wife so it stands to reason they've talked Marvel vs DC before. "DC is actually pretty chill."

By MarkJulian - Jan 05, 2015 05:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Green Arrow

Arrow excutive prodcuer Marc Guggenheim recently interviewed his wife, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. showrunner Tara Butters and her co-executive producer Michele Fazeka, for The Hollywood Reporter. In the conversation, Guggenheim compared notes with Butters and Fazeka on working for DC Entertainment vs Marvel Studios.  Here are a few, choice snippets from the interview:
 

Guggenheim: Do you consider Agent Carter's eight-episode order a blessing or a curse?
Butters: It's a blessing. Having eight episodes where it's not eight with the possibility of more, you know there's only going to be those eight and you're not going to have to hedge your bets and say, "Well, maybe we'll have a few more episodes that we'll have to fill out." You know the beginning and end of the season and can plot it out in a smart way. As long as you stick with it, and you're not a slave to it, you can move things around — and things do move around or better ideas come up but that makes it a process where you're not scrambling to come up with, "What's the next show?" You can actually spend time making it better and getting into the thematic, character stuff as opposed to just churning out a script because production is breathing down your neck.

The Agent Carter showrunners confirm that there are indeed plans for the Agents of SHIELD miniseries to continue for additional seasons if the ratings prove strong. They also confirm that Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, besides those previously announced will show up on Agent Carter. Naturally, they declined to identify who those character(s) are but that's to be expected given Marvel's tradition of secrecy.

Butters: What is DC Entertainment like?
Guggenheim: DC is actually pretty chill. I will say [Arrow and Flash showrunner] Andrew Kreisberg and I tend to be the gatekeepers in terms of what's a secret or trying to keep spoilers from leaking out. DC never really dictates stuff to us. We're self-policing, and we always apply a story that I had heard about Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Spoiler alert: In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the Enterprise was blown up, and when Paramount cut the trailer, that scene was in the trailer. [Producer] Harve Bennett and [director-star] Leonard Nimoy went to Sherry Lansing — the head of Paramount at the time — saying, "That's a huge moment for us, we don't want that in the trailer." And Lansing replied, "Well, do you want people to be surprised or do you want them to go to the movie?" We use that as a barometer [on Arrow and Flash]. We're not militant but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.

Guggenheim fields another question about how involved DC Entertainment is with the production of each Arrow episode. Said Guggenheim:

We have these semi-regular meetings where throughout the season we'll take them through the next chunks of episodes and say, "These are the big 10 pulls, here are the big moves that we're making." We plan the season out all in advance, so at the beginning of the season they know where the midseason finale is going to be, who's going to die and who's going to become a superhero. That's usually when we discuss which characters from the DC universe we want to bring in and which ones we can bring in. Obviously DC has a lot of different projects both in TV and film and we want to make sure that we're not stealing characters slotted for other avenues. Episode by episode, they're on all the studio notes calls and the calls for the cut. The only time we actually get notes are in the script stage. They actually produce a handy little document for us that is usually no more than two pages long with notes and thoughts. It's very democratic and offered for our consideration. We always say we'll take a good note from anywhere, and usually their notes are really quite good.


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MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 1/5/2015, 5:06 PM
Remember people, these are people in business getting along. Fans are a COMPLETELY different story...
Wannabe
Wannabe - 1/5/2015, 5:07 PM
DC and Marvel in bed together? Who knew?
ZeoTV
ZeoTV - 1/5/2015, 5:10 PM
ARE YOU TELLING ME DC AND MARVEL CAN COEXIST BULLSHIT!!! there must be flame wars
3Traced
3Traced - 1/5/2015, 5:14 PM
I think Daredevil will be the first superhero show that actually contends for being a good show.
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 1/5/2015, 5:15 PM
I follow Guggenheim on twitter and was curious why he RTed reviews/info. about Agent Carter, now I know!
tokens
tokens - 1/5/2015, 5:16 PM
I never really understood the whole marvel/dc fanboy thing.
like, really? dude we all love comics and are geeks and are going to see these shows and movies. just stahp. you know if u talked about it with anyone else they'd just beat u up or never let u see them naked again....
lookin at you @MarkJulian
...everytime I close my eyes... I can see you again from that night.. all of you...
3Traced
3Traced - 1/5/2015, 5:16 PM
Network shows are for the most part too restrictive. Fargo was the first network series that looked like it had a lot of creative freedom.
3Traced
3Traced - 1/5/2015, 5:17 PM
"or never let u see them naked again...."

?
tokens
tokens - 1/5/2015, 5:21 PM
this is pretty much Exactly what happened with me and Mark Julian

Havenless
Havenless - 1/5/2015, 5:21 PM
@3Traced

Lois and Clark was a great show
tokens
tokens - 1/5/2015, 5:22 PM
@3Traced
lol girls man
patrat18
patrat18 - 1/5/2015, 5:46 PM
It's official, Dc [frick]s Marvel in the ass.
TheOverlord
TheOverlord - 1/5/2015, 5:46 PM
For me, Marvel and DC have always co-existed and always will.

McGee
McGee - 1/5/2015, 5:55 PM
All I took away from this is that on television, DC is tapping dat Marvel ass both literally and figuratively.
homodrome
homodrome - 1/5/2015, 5:56 PM
Agent Carter is gonna have secret epic cameos? Arrow is gonna give us the Lazarus Pit? It's a good time to be a nerd!
patrat18
patrat18 - 1/5/2015, 6:05 PM
@McGee Lmfaooo.
DatScarletPimPerNeLL
DatScarletPimPerNeLL - 1/5/2015, 7:35 PM
@Cinnamon

teinen
teinen - 1/5/2015, 7:58 PM
Hate to break to everybody, but all these comic shows blow. Agent Carter looks pretty horrible too. And this come G from a Marvel guy.
Desrow
Desrow - 1/5/2015, 7:59 PM
Those Marvelites trying to look excited for Agent Carter...




There's only one agent Carter

JokerEl
JokerEl - 1/5/2015, 8:12 PM
Love DC!







Desrow
Desrow - 1/5/2015, 8:22 PM
BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 1/5/2015, 9:01 PM
Arrow is meh to me, Agent Carter and AoS is where it's at! Can't wait for Agent Carter tommorow!
batmanvsuperman
batmanvsuperman - 1/5/2015, 9:36 PM
@jokerel I do too my friend
batmanvsuperman
batmanvsuperman - 1/5/2015, 9:40 PM
@batmanheisenberg thats your opinion and nothings wrong with that but I disagree I love arrow and the flash and I will check agent Carter out and I watch aos not because I like it for the respect of marvel movies but I hope one day it will get on arrow level
BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 1/5/2015, 10:11 PM
Arrow is so bland.
tonytony
tonytony - 1/5/2015, 10:12 PM
dc and marvel sleeping together. Its like the sith lord in star wars orchestrating the war on both sides.
still think flash is easily the best of the comic book shows.
Kyos
Kyos - 1/5/2015, 10:20 PM
That's nice! :)
UltimateHunt
UltimateHunt - 1/5/2015, 11:45 PM
DC in terms of TV and Animation, they ARE chill,
They been doing WONDERFUL!

That's a cute relationship, cross over? Nae! Still fun fact
AbhiShake
AbhiShake - 1/6/2015, 8:04 AM
Husband from DC, wife from Marvel. I always knew DC f**ks Marvel daily in the Ass.
Trickwil
Trickwil - 1/6/2015, 8:15 AM
Amalgam Comics were interesting. It's only a matter of time before one buys the others and there is a shared universe. But then there will be DM fans and Image fans.
TheCredibleHulk
TheCredibleHulk - 1/6/2015, 11:28 AM
Hey, for all we know, she could be doing him in the a$$. U DC guys are kinda weird at times.
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