Gotham Knights TV Series: The CW Ordered The Pilot Episode

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It was recently announced that The CW isn’t planning to stop with DC shows and their Arrowverse universe anytime soon. Despite the viewership being worse than ever, The CW isn’t discouraged and they’re planning to expand the Arrowverse even further.

As Deadline recently reported, the pilot episode of the upcoming DC show Gotham Knights was ordered, along with pilot episodes for Walker: Independence, a spin-off of The CW series Walker starring Jared Padalecki, and The Winchesters, a prequel series of The CW’s famous series Supernatural. It’s not assured that any of these shows will be picked up after filming the pilot episodes, but the filming of pilot episodes only means that these projects are going forward, and it’s up to CW if they’re gonna become shows that we’re going to watch next TV season.

Arrowverse started back in 2012 with the TV series Arrow, and the expansion began in 2014 with the first spin-off The Flash. Since then, more DC shows joined the club — Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning. Supergirl, Batwoman, Stargirl, Superman & Lois, and Naomi. It was also recently reported that one more series is in development — Justice U — in which David Ramsey is set to reprise his role as John Diggle.

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Written by Batwoman writers Chad Fiveash, James Stoteraux, and Natalie Abrams, Gotham Knights is following the story of new heroes in the titular city after Bruce Wayne/Batman’s murder. Considering how the Batwoman TV show handled Batman’s role in the Arrowverse, it seems like Gotham Knights will not be fully connected to the Arrowverse because that would create a timeline and storytelling collision between Batwoman and Gotham Knights.

“In the wake of Bruce Wayne’s murder, his rebellious adopted son forges an unlikely alliance with the children of Batman’s enemies when they are all framed for killing the Caped Crusader. And as the city’s most wanted criminals, this renegade band of misfits must fight to clear their names. But in a Gotham with no Dark Knight to protect it, the city descends into the most dangerous it’s ever been. However, hope comes from the most unexpected of places as this team of mismatched fugitives will become its next generation of saviors known as the Gotham Knights.” — Gotham Knights, official synopsis

This year, DC fans will also have the opportunity to play the Gotham Knights video game. Developed by WB Games Montréal and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the game is set to be released this year for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. WB Games Montréal is known for developing Batman: Arkham Origins, a prequel game of Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight trilogy.

Although some reports that CW is planning to be sold by CBS Entertainment (which owns 50% of the company) and Warner Bros. Entertainment (which owns other 50%) recently surfaced, The CW is continuing their business as they see it fit, and it seems like the fans of their shows have no reason to worry for now.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.