Canceled Arrow Spin-off Gets Details, Could’ve Seen Smallville Character Return

The worlds of Smallville and Arrow briefly crossed paths in the Arrowverse crossover event “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” with Tom Welling and Erica Durance reprising their respective roles as Clark and Lois. However, Smallville’s Black Canary actor Alaina Huffman recently shared that she was angling for a more prominent role in the Arrowverse than just a one-off cameo.

In January 2020, The CW aired the penultimate episode of Arrow, “Green Arrow & The Canaries,” which served as a backdoor pilot for a potential spin-off series set in 2040 starring Oliver Queen’s daughter Mia Smoak/Green Arrow (Katherine McNamara), Laurel Lance/Black Canary (Katie Cassidy), and Dinah Drake/Black Canary (Juliana Harkavy). The network ultimately passed on the proposed series a year later, with the then-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic factoring into the decision not to move forward with the spin-off.

What did Alaina Huffman say about the canceled Arrow spin-off show?

However, before The CW passed on Green Arrow and the Canaries, Huffman pitched being part of the spin-off to Arrowverse co-creator Greg Berlanti. “At one point, the Berlanti world was gonna do a spin-off of the Black Canary from Arrow, and I made a pitch, ‘cause they were gonna do a bunch of different versions of the Black Canary,” Huffman revealed to CBR. “I thought it would be really, really cool to play, like, the den mother of the Canaries, just sort of playing that OG Black Canary role.”

Huffman didn’t go into too much detail about her pitch, so it’s unclear whether the actor was trying to convince Berlanti to bring back specifically Smallville’s Black Canary or just to have a role in the spin-off as a different character who had taken on the mantle of Black Canary in the Arrowverse. However, the actor added that it would have been “kind of neat to play [Black Canary] at a different phase in her life.”

Smallville is currently available to stream on Hulu, while Arrow can be found on Netflix.

Originally reported by Lee Freitag on SuperHeroHype.

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