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Arrow (TV)

8/15/12 - John Barrowman has joined the CW's Arrow, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Barrowman plays a well-dressed man who is as mysterious as he is wealthy and an acquaintance of the Queen family and prominent figure in Starling City.  The CW series stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Arrow, a hooded vigilante who returns home to Starling City five years after being presumed dead from a boating crash to carry out revenge upon the people who have transformed his hometown from the sprawling city it once was.

3/19/12 - The CW has released the first image from its drama pilot Arrow, an adaptation of the long-running DC Comics title Green Arrow.  In the image, Stephen Amell dons a green suit designed by three-time Oscar-winner Colleen Atwood.  Nutter will direct the pilot, which will be written by Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim and based on a story by Greg Berlanti and Guggenheim. Melissa Kellner Berman will serve as co-exec producer on the project, which hails from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV.  Paul Blackthorne, Jamey Sheridan, David Ramsey, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland and Colin Salmon co-star in the pilot, which is filming in Vancouver.

2/1/12 - Stephen Amell has been cast in the CW’s Green Arrow, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Amell will play the playboy by day and secretly saves the city by night with his enhanced arrows.  The CW ordered Arrow to pilot earlier this month. The retelling of the legendary comics character hails from Green Lantern duo Greg Berlantiand Marc Guggenheim, who will executive produce and pen the project alongside Fringe co-EP Andrew Kreisberg, with whom they worked on Eli Stone.

1/18/12 - The CW is moving forward with its Green Arrow project and ordered a pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Arrow, based on DC Comics' long-running Green Arrow, revolves around the hooded super hero, a wealthy playboy by day who secretly saves the city by night using his enhanced arrows.  The hourlong drama is a modern retelling of the legendary comics character and hails from Green Lantern duo Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, who will executive produce and pen the project alongside Fringe co-EP Andrew Kreisberg, with whom they worked on Eli Stone.  The pilot order comes less than a week after the project landed at the network. The project hails from Berlanti Productions in associatioin with Warner Bros. Television.

1/13/12 - The CW is near a pilot order for Arrow, the story of Green Arrow made famous in the long-running DC Comics series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Longtime writing partners Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim -- the duo behind the big-screen DC Comics adaptation of Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds -- are attached to executive produce and pen the project alongside Andrew Kreisberg.  Berlanti's Berlanti Productions will produce the project, in association with Warner Bros. Television.  Justin Hartley, who played the character on Smallville. Hartley, is not attached. 

7/29/08 - Writer/director David S. Goyer likes his draft for Super Max, a proposed film centering on the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow, and that they seem prepared to move ahead with the movie.  Supermax centers on Green Arrow, who finds himself framed, stripped of his identity and imprisoned in a high-security penitentiary for supervillains, with whom he must team up to clear his name and escape.   "It started out as a supervillain-escape idea, and the idea was, well, we can either go Marvel or DC," Goyer said of the genesis of the idea. "And I talked to both of them, and I kind of said, 'Well, who can you give me?' Because I needed a superhero that I can bounce off of. And I don't know. For my money it was, if we went Marvel, it would be Captain America. If we went DC, maybe Green Arrow. And Green Arrow seemed like the best fit."

12/31/06 - David Goyer sold Warner Brothers on a new take on the Green Arrow, a classic DC Comics superhero.  "Supermax" is Goyer's take on supervillain incarceration in the DC universe, the magazine reported. Goyer's story revolves around a wrongly convicted Green Arrow, who is whisked away to the supermax prison for out-of-control heroes and villains, where he's forced to face a number of inmates that he put there.  "He's Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he's arrested, and his secret identity is revealed," Goyer told the magazine. "They shave his goatee, and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It's like Alcatraz, and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he's in there. We've populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic-book junkies will know, but they're all going to be there under their human names, and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that."  Stay tuned on this one.

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