Perhaps suddenly realizing that, holy shit, the network is totally out of episodes of Smallville, The CW is reportedly on the verge of greenlighting (heh) a new superhero pilot for the network. Specifically, it would be a series based around DC character The Green Arrow.
No, not The Green Lantern. The Green Lantern is the pilot guy with all the space powers who sometimes in the comics teams up with The Green Arrow because comic book writers are like pro-wrestling bookers and will create the laziest team-ups they can just for the sake of finding something to do with all these characters they have lying around.
No, not The Green Hornet, either. Yes, both characters are similarly wealthy, and use the term Green in their name, but they're not even from the same universe, and The Green Arrow lacks a kung-fu knowledgeable manservant.
No, it's not Hawkeye either. That's a Marvel character, and he's not even green. Are you just screwing with me now?
Anyway, according to Deadline, this new Green Arrow series comes courtesy of Greg Berlanti and Mark Guggenheim, the men behind the recent film adaptation of The Green Lantern that everyone pretty much hated. In better news, also on board is Andrew Kreisberg, a former writer of the Green Arrow comic who also has done work on stuff like Fringe and The Vampire Diaries.
As for the nature of this Green Arrow series, the general idea seems to be that the titular character, the superhero alter-ego of billionaire Oliver Queen, will continue on doing his whole Batman-meets-Hawkeye-meets-Robin Hood-meets-Dennis Kucinich hero of the people thing, and do it without any tie-in whatsoever to the version of Green Arrow that appeared several times on Smallville. This is a totally different Green Arrow, except for all of the character traits, of course.
This sounds more than a little bit like an attempt to try and turn the Occupy Wall Street movement into a villain-of-the-week superhero series, with Green Arrow running around solving injustices with his various arrows made of glue and kryptonite and altruism and whatnot. While no star is attached yet, there are only a handful of actors out there who can grow really good, blonde beards--and Chris Hemsworth is busy with that whole Thor thing. That narrows things down considerably.
I'm interested to see where they go with this - if they go at all.
Maybe it'll be as good as the 2011 Wonder Woman tv series...oh wait.
I like Green Arrow but having those two writers attached to this project has me a bit worried because they really didn't do very well with Green Lantern and just might mess up GA. Of course this is the CW we're talking about and they're ideas for superhero shows have been rather good in comparison to to other networks' ideas (Wonder Woman).
You know I would have been happy if they just spun off the guy from Smallville. The guy playing him was a better actor than Tom Welling and I liked the Justice League stuff they did even if it was cheesy and low budget.
I like Green Arrow, he was in the Justice League right?
"Poser"
@Etaber said:
Agreed. He was one of the better characters, and actors, on the show. Thought he made a really good Green Arrow.
I think a Green Arrow show could work if done right, but they never get it right.
He was the cheapest character in the old Blizzard Justice League fighting game. His arrows made mini mushroom clouds!
Every episode should involve him hanging upside down, missing an arm, and shooting Superman with a kryptonite arrow.
I like Green Arrow but I assume this will be a spin-off of Smallville since Green Arrow was in that show for the last 3 seasons or whatever it was. A Smallville spin-off couldn't interest me less.
Certainly one of the better thespians in the series.
It'll never happen. Mark my words.
Really, one year between different live versions of the same character on the same network? A Green Arrow spinoff starring Justin Hartley with the occasional appearance by Smallville alumni would be more interesting to me.
i really like Green Arrow, it's the only series of comics that I can stand to read
@Christina said:
Yeah, and like a lot of DC heroes he dates back to the 1940s. If you're unfamiliar with him, I'd recommend hunting up a copy of The Longbow Hunters trade paperback.
I think this is an okay idea, but I don't expect the series to have any more substance than CBS's short lived The Flash show. Unless it's an angsty teen, I can't see it succeeding on the CW network. Plus, since GA was such a presence in the Smallville series, if this new character has nothing to do with that character, the show will disappear quicker than CW's Birds of Prey.
Actually, CW should have been the one to try a Wonder Woman show rather than NBC. Just make WW a mousey high school girl with boy trouble (crushing on class president and star athlete, Steve Trevor), mean girls harassing her, and divorced parents pushing her in different directions. Then her ancestral power awakens and now she has to deal with her secret superpowers, too. The studio could probably dust off some old Buffy scripts and adapt them to the genre with ease.
@PenguinDust: I've seen a bit of him in the few Justice League episodes I watched, i'll give that book a look. Gotta finish my Hellblazer ones first though!