‘Supergirl’ EP Teases Kara And Alex’s Roles In This Year’s Arrowverse Crossover

The Danvers sisters will play a large role in this year’s four-way crossover between CW’s “Arrow,” “The Flash,” “Supergirl” and “Legends of Tomorrow.”

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Arrowverse executive producer Andrew Kreisberg revealed that Kara (Melissa Benoist) and Alex (Chyler Leigh) are front and center in the upcoming crossover.

“Kara and Alex are at the center of it through all four hours,” Kreisberg said. “One of the things we’ve been doing a lot this season [in ‘Supergirl’] is getting back to Season 1 and really making it Danvers sisters-centric, so a lot of what’s going on this season is Kara and Alex doing things in tandem, and the crossover won’t be any different.”

Plot details about this fall’s crossover are being kept under wraps, but Arrowverse executive producer Marc Guggenheim told Entertainment Weekly last June that they’re planning to increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs in this year’s crossover to outdo last year’s “Invasion!” “If we end up doing what we’re talking about doing, it’s going to be pretty cool,” Guggenheim said. “The crossover is always the most challenging thing we do, but it’s also the most fun.”

“Every year we feel the pressure [to top ourselves],” Guggenheim continued. “I feel like each crossover has topped the previous one. [But] topping last year’s, that’s a high bar. … What do you do that’s bigger than aliens? We’ve got some very, very exciting ideas…. Very early on in the process of doing last year’s crossover, Greg [Berlanti] said there’s probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the [next] crossover especially epic is if you can’t increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that’s a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.”

Unlike “Invasion!” this year’s crossover will only be a two-night event. It will kick off on Monday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. EST with “Supergirl” followed by a special Monday episode of “Arrow” at 9 p.m. The special programming block will continue the following day, Tuesday, Nov. 28 with “The Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow” in their regular time slots, 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., respectively.