EXCLUSIVE: The Tom Swift planted spinoff episode of The CW’s Nancy Drew has found its director. Ruben Garcia will direct the episode, which is set to air later this year.Garcia, who is currently a primary director for CBS’ SEAL Team, directed The Haunting of Nancy Drew – the 16th episode of the first season of youth-skewing drama.The episode will introduce the Swift character, played by Tian Richards, this season ahead of a potential spinoff series.
The character, a Black, gay, billionaire inventor, is being introduced in the fifteenth episode of season two, and development is ongoing on the standalone project.It harks back to similar case with The Flash, where the character was introduced in an episode of Arrow, while a standalone pilot
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