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).
