Arrow Lands On Wednesdays This Fall

Arrow Takes Aim

Arrow, The CW’s new television series based on the DC Comics’ character Green Arrow, will kick off the network’s Wednesday lineup this fall as a lead-in to their super natural drama, Supernatural. The last show from the former network, The WB, Supernatural will be premiering on a new night.

The announcement was accompanied by a still image from Arrow, featuring Stephen Amell (Hung) as the emerald archer Oliver Queen, and a promo clip from the pilot.

The series is being created by the Green Lantern movie screenwriters Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, and Fringe co-executive producer Andrew Kreisberg. Arrow centers on Oliver Queen, a wealthy young spoiled brat, who after spending five years shipwrecked on an island, returns to Starling City (Star City in the comic books) with a mastery of the bow and a new outlook on the world.

Amell is joined by Colin Donnell as Tommy Merlyn, Katie Cassidy (Supernatural, Melrose Place) as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey (Dexter, Blue Bloods) as John Diggle, Willa Holland (The O.C.) as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kings) as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne (The Dresden Files, 24) as Detective Quentin Lance.

The official description follows:

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance.

As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be – flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle – while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel’s father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver’s own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on – and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

 Arrow will air Wednesdays this fall at 8 p.m. ET/PT, followed at 9 p.m. by Supernatural, which begins its eighth season.

First Look At CW’s Green Arrow

Green Arrow Revealed

The first image of Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow for the CW’s new TV series, Arrow has been released. The CW had been considering developing different series based on DC Comics characters to fill the hole that Smallville created when it ended its long run. And the emerald archer got the call.

Arrow will revolve around former billionaire playboy Oliver Queen who develops his uncanny archery ability while being marooned on a remote island. He returns to his city with a new set of skills that he uses in a war on crime.

When TV Line was able to speak to director David Nutter, he explained, “When I directed the pilot for Smallville, I knew that making Clark Kent relateable would be the key to audiences believing in him as a hero. Arrow is a different show — darker and harder-edged — but it’s the same core idea. We’re creating a real, believable world in which Oliver Queen can do incredible things. [Costume designer] Colleen Atwood’s great work on the Arrow costume reflects that effort.”

Katie Cassidy Plays Dinah Lance On CW’s Arrow

Canary’s Cry

According to Deadline, Katie Cassidy (Gossip Girl, Melrose Place and Supernatural) is headed back to the CW for the network’s pilot Arrow. Cassidy will play Dinah “Laurel” Lance in the pilot that will introduce a new version of the DC Comics character Green Arrow. Stephen Amell will play the vigilante archer, also known as Oliver Queen, a wealthy playboy and billionaire industrialist-turned-outspoken politician in Star City.

Cassidy’s version of  Dinah Lance will be a young legal clinic attorney who shares a romantic past with Oliver. However, it appears that the two may be at odds when Lance’s younger sister dies on Oliver’s yacht. In the comic books Dinah Lance is the hero Black Canary, and for a long time has had a romance with Green Arrow. The two were even married prior to DC Comics’s recent relaunch. I’m glad that Dinah Lance will be featured in the series, but I don’t know why they are creating a story that might make the two enemies. Also, why are they calling the series an abbreviated Arrow? They are making a show about Green Arrow. They are basing a show on a long established comic book character, so why not use the character’s full name as the title. It should be Green Arrow. Not just Arrow. Arrow doesn’t carry any meaning. Green Arrow is well known and marketable.

Susanna Thompson joins the cast as Oliver’s mother, Moira Queen. And  David Ramsey (Dexter) joins as Oliver’s bodyguard John Diggle. David Nutter is directing the pilot, which is being written and executive produced by Andrew Kreisberg (Fringe), Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim (Green Lantern).

Green Arrow Aims For The CW

The CW Aims For DC’s Emerald Archer

According to Deadline, The CW has ordered a pilot for a hour long superhero drama based on the Green Arrow comic book character from DC Comics. Green Lantern screenwriters Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, and Fringe writer Andrew Kreisberg will team-up to script the pilot. Smallville pilot director David Nutter will direct the Green Arrow pilot. Justin Hartley, who played Green Arrow on Smallville, is currently not associated with the upcoming pilot. And while the show is based on the comic book character, it is being said that the TV series will set the character “in a new world with an original story that is not based on the comics.”

Green Arrow, who first appeared in More Fun Comics in 1941, was created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp. One time billionaire Oliver Queen became the crime fighting archer who is part Batman, part Robin Hood. During his history he took in the sidekick Speedy, became close friends of  Green Lantern, has had a long time love affair with Black Canary, and became a member of the Justice League.