Colton Hayes Will Be Returning To Arrow Season 7
It’s time to suit back up! Colton Hayes will be returning to Arrow for Season 7. Even after the two-episode arc in Season 6 felt like a goodbye arc, Hayes will be returning as a series regular for Season 7.
“We’re very fortunate and excited to welcome back Colton to Arrow,” the Arrow executive producers said in a statement. “While we’ve always enjoyed Colton’s returns to the show, we couldn’t be more thrilled to have him return as a proper series regular and we’re very excited about all the creative opportunities Roy Harper’s return affords us.”
Colton Hayes said, “I could not be happier to return to my role as Roy Harper alongside my Arrow family.”
Arrow airs Thursdays at 9 pm, on The CW.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Arrow Showrunner Confesses “Miscalculation” on Team Arrow Fight
Arrow co-showrunner Marc Guggenheim confessed to TVLine that he might have miscalculated the reaction to Season 6’s Civil War-style storyline.
I think if I miscalculated anywhere, it’s probably on the order of not taking into full consideration the fact that while all the arguments may be equal and equally strong, there’s always going to be a love and affection for the original characters that the new characters don’t get a chance to enjoy.
In crafting these arguments, we were being, I think, very evenhanded. At least we were trying to be. But we were not taking into account the familiarity factor.
Superheroes having a falling out and fighting amongst each other is one of the most longstanding comic book traditions. Again, this is maybe where we miscalculated, but I always assumed the fans would go along with us in this regard, because it is such a tried-and-true comic book [convention].
Evoking the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America: Civil War, Guggenheim went on to say, “In the Marvel cinematic universe, very good movies have been made about [infighting].”
The thing I always ask, or I think any showrunner would ask, is: We’re basically in the middle of the story, so try to try to withhold judgment until you see how the story resolves itself.
Arrow airs Thursdays @ 9pm ET on The CW.
H/T: TVLine
Arrow Star Stephen Amell Believes Black Lightning Crossover Will “Eventually” Happen
New CW hit Black Lightning hasn’t officially joined the Arrowverse just yet, but Arrow star Stephen Amell believes that’s just a small technicality.
Amell was recently asked about the crossover potential and here’s what he had to say:
Everyone pretends like we’re not going to eventually cross over with Black Lightning but we’re probably gonna cross over with Black Lightning because that’s just the way that the world works… I think that anything you can do to expand the universe and to build out what we’ve built on our show would be great. So, I’m glad that show’s doing well, I hope that it has a very successful run, and I would love to be a small part of it in some way shape, or form.
H/T: ComicBookMovie
Caity Lotz Returns to Arrow for Season Finale
Legends of Tomorrow star Caity Lotz’s Sara Lance will return home in present-day Star City during Arrow‘s season finale, airing Thursday, May 17. Lotz herself IGed the news.
Lotz last appeared on Arrow (in a non-crossover episode) in November 2015, not long before the Legends spinoff made its series premiere.
No further information on exactly what Sara will be up to in the season finale has been released.
H/T: Collider
The CW Renews Arrowverse Shows (and 5 More!)
The CW renewed 10 series on Monday, including all of your fan favorite superhero dramas.
The network renewed all of the Berlanti-verse shows: Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl and Black Lightning all got picked up (for Seasons 7, 5, 4, 4 and 2).
Critically acclaimed dramas Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (entering Season 4) and Jane the Virgin (renewed for Season 5) were also renewed.
Fan favorites Riverdale (renewed for Season 3) and Supernatural (entering Season 14) will be back, including the ratings-challenged cult fave Dynasty (returning for Season 2).
H/T: TVLine
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Arrow Showrunner Discusses [SPOILER]’s Exit
This past Thursday, The CW’s Arrow said farewell to OG castmember Willa Holland. Speedy sped away in a red car with Roy Harper and Nyssa al Ghul to track down / destroy three Lazarus Pits that her father, Malcolm Merlyn, had discovered at some point prior to his death.
Arrow showrunner Marc Guggenheim sat down with TVLine to discuss Holland’s exit. Here are a few excerpts from the interview.
How long has this been in motion, the plan to write out Willa?
By the end of Season 4, Willa had expressed a desire to reduce her episodic commitment to the show and that was sort of done in sort of conjunction with an indication that it was likely that she wouldn’t want to renew her contract past Season 6. So, we’ve kind of known for a while that this was in the offing. We revisited it with Willa at the beginning of Season 6, and she indicated that she hadn’t changed her mind, that she was still interested in moving on.
We talked about some requests she had for us in terms of how her episodes would be utilized and grouped, and at what point in the season she would be written out, and we accommodated her on all those fronts because, look, at the end of the day we love Willa and we love working with her. She’s done right by us and so we wanted to do right by her.
It’s my understanding that part of what made it difficult for you, in considering her wish, was removing this important part of Oliver’s family.
That’s the thing. Apart from not getting a chance to work with Willa, that was probably the most painful aspect of it, because when we adapted the Green Arrow comic to live-action, one of the earliest and the biggest changes we made from the comic was to give Oliver a family. In the comic, he didn’t have siblings and his parents were both dead. This was a significant relationship for him and also, I think, one of the most effective elements of the show. The relationship between Stephen and Willa on camera was wonderful. But though we went into the season knowing that he’d be losing this relationship, we also knew he’d be—
Gaining a wife, gaining a son.
He’d be gaining a wife. He’d be gaining a son. And while we would do our best not to replace the relationship with Thea, we wanted to maintain a family element in his life.
Was it all that Colton Haynes needed to hear, that he was coming back for Willa’s sendoff, to get him to sign on for another encore?
Actually, it’s funny — no. I had bumped into Colton on the Fox lot months earlier and we started talking and he expressed a desire to come back to the show, because he had a window of free time. I was like, “Actually, that works out great!” It worked out really, really well because we always knew that in a perfect world, Thea’s departure from the show would involve Roy in some way. Roy’s been such a big part of her story that [Colton’s return] was a fortuitous circumstance.
Arrow airs Thursdays @ 9pm ET on The CW.
H/T: TVLine
The Flash and Arrow Will Take A Break in February
Two CW shows will be taking a break in February.
The same week Supergirl begins a hiatus to make way for the return of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash and Arrow will be taking a week off mid-February.
There’s no word yet on when the shows will return, but it’s likely they will return the next week or after a short hiatus. Breaks of one to three weeks are common for each of the three shows, either to accommodate scheduling on The CW or to get ahead on post-production.
Arrow and The Flash will both air re-runs during the break. Supergirl will return on April 16 and run through June.
Source: Comicbook
Arrow Episode Photos: “We Fall”
The CW has released some first look photos for next weeks episode, “We Fall.”
In some of these photos, we see William (Jack Moore) on the run, in danger as a direct result of Cayden James’ evil. We also see Oliver doing his best to get his son to safety, but it looks as though that action has put him in the crosshairs as well.
Another thing we see in these photos is Team Arrow working together.
You can check out the photos below as well as the synopsis for the upcoming episode.
WILLIAM LANDS IN CAYDEN JAMES’ CROSSHAIRS — Cayden James (guest star Michael Emerson) ups the ante by launching his plan to take control of every aspect of the city. Despite the scope of Cayden’s plan, Oliver (Stephen Amell) is determined to foil it with just the Original Team Arrow — and without the aid of Rene (Rick Gonzalez), Dinah (Juliana Harkavy), or Curtis (Echo Kellum). But things get complicated when William (guest star Jack Moore) is endangered as a result of Cayden’s handiwork.
New episodes of Arrow air on Thursday nights at 9pm ET on The CW.
Source: Comicbook
Arrow Showdown Coming to The CW in February
An Arrow showdown is coming to The CW in February.
Oliver Queen and Dinah Drake continue what has been a running theme of this season — that the old and new members of Team Arrow can’t seem to get it together.
The synopsis has been released for this episode:
OLIVER AND DINAH FACE OFF — Oliver (Stephen Amell) continues his battle with Cayden James (guest star Michael Emerson). Dinah (Juliana Harkavy) and Oliver have a major disagreement that endangers the life of one of their own.
Arrow airs on Thursday nights at 9 p.m., following new episodes of Supernatural on The CW.
“All For Nothing” premieres February 1.
Source: Comicbook
Arrow Star Stephen Amell Gets Festive
Arrow’s Stephen Amell is getting into the holiday spirit.
Amell shared some festive photos of him in his costume as the Arrow this weekend. The first photo he posted is with Santa Claus with the caption, “Seconds before I told him he was on the list.”
He posted another photo in the same place with his wife Cassandra Jean and daughter Mavi.
He also took to Twitter to share a transformation photo from 2012-2017.
2012 – 2017 🎄🎄🎄 pic.twitter.com/J6uzuCWV9t
— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) December 16, 2017
How adorable are these photos?