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The CW is finalizing a deal for a pilot order to Arrow, an hourlong superhero drama based on DC Comics’ Green Arrow. It is written and executive produced by The Green Lantern co-writers Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim and Fringe and Vampire Diaries alum Andrew Kreisberg. I hear that David Nutter will likely direct the project, which takes the comic book character created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp and sets him in a new world with an original story that is not based on the comics, which are published by DC Entertainment. Arrow, produced by Warner Bros TV and Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Television, was developed by Berlanti and Guggenheim, who came up with the idea and wrote the storyline and then brought in Kreisberg to write the script. Kreisberg, who has comics experience having written DC Comics’ Green Arrow and Black Canary among other books, previously worked with Berlanti and Guggenheim on their ABC drama Eli Stone.
First introduced in an 1941 edition of More Fun Comics, Green Arrow is a superhero dressed like Robin Hood who is an archer using trick arrows including glue, net, tear gas and even kryptonite arrows. His secret identity is billionaire Oliver Queen. This marks the character’s return to the CW, where it was a fixture on the Superman-inspired Smallville for 
several years. Portrayed by Justin Hartley, who is not attached to Arrow, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow was introduced in a seven-episode arc on the show in 2006, with Hartley joining the series as a regular in 2008. Also serving as a bridge between the two shows would be Nutter, who directed the pilot for Smallville.
Developing a series based on a DC property to succeed the recently departed Smallville was a priority for the CW this development season. “We’re looking next year to do a superhero show if the right superhero comes to be,” CW president Mark Pedowitz said at the summer TCA. In addition to Arrow, the network has in contention an adaptation of Deadman penned by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke. This is the CW’s second pilot order this season, following the pickup of mystery drama Cult last week. Arrow would mark the second pilot order for Berlanti and Guggenheim so far this season. Earlier this week, Fox greenlighted Guilty, a legal drama penned by Guggenheim and executive produced by him and Berlanti. Berlanti, Guggenheim, Nutter and Kreisberg, who serves as co-executive producer on Syfy’s Warehouse 13, are with WME.
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Weird-DC Comics new Green Arrow comic is inspired by the Smallville version and now we might be getting something different for a new TV series. Maybe he’ll be more like the older, liberal bastard with illegitimate children. The version of GA that’s actually good.
Amen to that.
Because they did such a great job with Green Lantern?
TV is different from movies fyi.
Fanboys despise Berlanti and Guggenheim. They have way too much baggage. Pairing a fanboy property with writers fanboys despise makes no sense.
From the writers of that amazing, highly successful movie Green Lantern? Golly, this has smash hit all over it. C’mon, seriously? And people wonder why the CW is in the shitter.
And the CW had a version they could’ve done for cheap as a spin-off… But they decided to do this. Do they really think this will turn out better than what the Smallville version would be?
Once it dies it’s ugly death before it gets to air — or next fall if it does — they’ll know what a bad idea this was…
Interesting. I loved Smallville’s Green Arrow and Justin Hartley was perfect. Wasn’t there also a Raven pilot in the works and Blue Beetle? Don’t know much about those characters. I knew a little bit about Green Arrow, but he was a preachy dullard and I only came to like him during Smallville.
Yeah… I would probably watch if Justin Hartley is going to play the title character.
Hell yes, Hartley would be awesome as a lead.
On Smallville he had to play second fiddle to Clark Kent (ya know, Superman) because the show was about SMALLVILLE.
He would kill an adult version.
Justin was Green Candy for fangirls, glad they are getting someone new to play Green Arrow.
Justin was great.He looked the part, tall, muscular, and ripped, unlike Tom Welling who was almost always out of shape (love handles), and was probably in no shape to put on the red and blue anyways. GA is also more like Batman, with a lot of cool toys-I loved his first confrontation with Clark, when he pulled the compound bow trick to escape. They had already also developed Speedy, but didn’t take advantage of her. I agree with a lot of posters here, extending Smallvile to GA was a slam-dunk, but instead they decide to give it to losers like Berlanti, after screwing up NOF and GL. I wish some one would give me some money to screw up projects like Berlanti does, I would do a phenomenal job!
Hmm. On the one hand you are canny enough to bring up No Ordinary Family, a show everyone has forgotten about it seems. On the other hand, you are clearly blind and insane, since Hot Damn, Tom Welling is smoking hot and built like a brick shithouse! Damn that man is sizzling! Hot, hot, HOT! Oh to be a drop of sweat, gliding down those shoulders, that chest, those abs, and well better stop there. Off to Tumblr to indulge in some dedicated ogling.
lol so true Mama Mia. Tom Welling is STACKED and brawny. He may not have been as defined in the abs as Justin Hartley in the later seasons but I still loved him. Especially those huge arms and shoulders. Anyway, I will probably check out this new series. I wish JH could be the Green Arrow but like they’ve said, it’s not a spin-off from Smallville…so I guess they can’t use him.
If it’s not based on the comic, then how is it Green Arrow?
It’s based on just “an arrow.” That’s why it is called “The Arrow.”
I don’t get it.
Unless I’m mistaken wasn’t B & G also involved in another Green stinker, Green Lantern?? (-man, what a real comic book movie THAT was. BAD comic book…), along with another winner, Geoff Johns.
Doesn’t Warner’s EVER LEARN??
Stick with comics, guys, I hear there is a Baby Huey reboot coming up…
Make it a Smallville spin off that way it opens the door for Chole to be in it and Clark/Superman
I would watch that.
Its NOT a smallville spin off that show is over. Green Arrow only need the Black Canary,she is his female lead.
Good guys make good things happen.
Props.
Say what you want about GL but the TV track record on them is quality so don’t be such a hater
Are you high? What, Eli Stone? Jack and Bobby? Brothers and Sisters? There hasn’t been one great show or one great hit that’s come out of the Berlanti camp. All smoke and mirrors.
Exactly.
Everwood.
How can you consider “Brothers and Sisters” a failure? Sure it wasn’t a blockbuster but it stayed on the air for 5 years. And you forgot about “Everwood” which was one of the few shows that brought legitimacy to the WB.
What about Everwood? One of the best shows ever on WB
David Nutter! Love him! Love the SMALLVILLE pilot! I think it is his most brilliant work, and he has a lot of good work to choose from. It was epic in scope, but still retained an intimacy of feeling. It perfectly balanced the human scale with the adrenaline epic action scale. It still holds up today as better than most movies coming out every weekend.
I…dont know how to feel about this. Look at my username. On the one hand…I feel the usual fanboy rage(not based on the comic? WTF?) On the other….Green Arrow is my favorite non-Batman superhero and DC has REALLY run him into the ground lately. At this point,Ollie and company really have nowhere to go but up. I would urge all involved with this to AT LEAST look at the comics written by Denny O’Neil,Mike Grell,and Chuck Dixon…they were all know for writing a realistic,dramatic version of Green Arrow that would be PERFECT for an hourlong TV show. I would also hope that this show would manage to feature Green Arrows supporting characters like Roy Harper and Dinah Lance. Remember-SMALLVILLE didnt get good until the guest stars started showing up. I…remain hopefully optimistic. Just please…no Teen Arrow in High School. No early 20′s Melrose Place Green Arrow. Try not to drag the Emerald Archer down to the CW’s level. Hiyo Goddamn Silver!!!!
So completely agree with you longbowhunter.
The last good thing DC did with GA was Andy Diggle and Jock’s Year One mini series 5 years ago. There is so much which can be done with the character just by tapping into the good comics.
I’m super cautious about this, but will definitely tune in. I love Ollie too much to ignore this like, I unfortunately have with everything else GA wise as of late.
The moment they said Season 10 was Smallville’s last, I said to a friend that CW should spinoff Justin Hartley in fall of 2011. Stupid that they didn’t.
They should make up for that now. I’d like to see him do a Green Arrow show. I waited years for that frankly. I think he’d make a good lead as that character. I don’t care to see a reboot.
Justin hartley Isnt being considered for the show. You can stop waiting now and just enjoy whoever is being considered
Just wanted to add…we havent seen much of Josh Holloway since LOST went off the air. As a longtime GA fan,I cant think of a more perfect choice to play Oliver Queen.
I can think of someone better than Josh Holloway.
Justin Hartley.
Better looking and a far superior actor.
SUPERIOR acting?. LOLOLOLOLOL
Dont make me laugh, thats your obsession with him talking. He is quite pretty but not as much as people obesess over him. Get over it or get out. Its a new show, wanting a new actor. Dont like, then get out, instead of whining about some actor not being Green arrow forever
That’s right. Drive off any potential viewers! Let this terrible idea die quickly! Won’t even make it past pilot.
Can’t blame Berlanti, Green and Guggenheim for GL guys. Their first drafts rocked. Had Warners and DC stuck closer to those you would’ve had a very different movie. Don’t believe me? They’re floating around online. Check ‘em out. And Kreisberg is a dynamite writer who obviously knows the character. Can’t wait for this.
I don’t think he knows the character.Did you read his run on Green Arrow and Black Canary?It wasn’t good, at all.
Wow, you defend these guys so well it’s almost as if…. you’re one of them.
I loved Hartley’s Green Arrow. He has such an energy to him. He was very fallible and struggling with darker character traits like drinking, bullying, quick temper, but also positive traits like friendship, bravery, and redemption. Hartley’s version was also very sexy, edgy and cool.
They really made Green Lantern happen. Happen to suck.
These writers have too much baggage. Warners shot themselves in the foot by not starting fresh.
A Green Arrow that’s not based on the comics. Then what’s the point?
A kick-ass liberal super-hero in these days and times would be awesome. Too bad it’s NOT BASED ON THE COMICS
Along with Deadman and Human Target on the TV side, and Watchmen (even though I liked it), Lantern and Jonah Hex on the feature side, DC Comics/WB are great at giving us superheroes nobody’s clamoring to see. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on a decent new version of WONDER WOMAN aside from that horrible NBC pilot.
You gotta admit that the 1st season of Human Target was pretty good & hitting its stride & getting an audience. It was when they switched up to a different show runner that is ran into the ground. But what do i know? I really got into The Cape – it was dark w/comic moments, good cast, well done overall and barely lasted the season. Maybe nobodys ready for something that different.
Odd choice given the circumstances. Perhaps they feel the character has a fan base as a result of his popularity on SMALLVILLE and though this won’t be the same iteration it will still garner the same audience and then some.
Green Arrow was a fixture on SMALLVILLE for a large amount of it’s run; from 2008 till it went off the air in 2011 he was a regular, and was on sporadically from 2006 – 2007 as well. The show covered his entire life, his origins, his background… hell, many episodes were centered around him and some barely had Clark Kent or Lex Luthor in them. He at times felt like the star of the show.
While many interpretations and iterations of comic back characters are possible and necessary (and welcome), it’s an odd choice seeing how we basically already got a Green Arrow series out of Smallville, so why rehash?
Move into new territory, CW. There’s plenty of properties.
My guess is they want to do this the same reason Smallville put Green Arrow on their series: BATMAN isn’t available to be used as a tv show or as a character in a DC-inspired series, and the Green Arrow (who is very similar in origin, in lack of super powers, in playboy-by-day-badass-hero-by-night persona, and in attitude) would be an excellent substitute.
While many interpretations and iterations of comic back characters are possible and necessary (and welcome), it’s an odd choice seeing how we basically already got a Green Arrow series out of Smallville, so why rehash?
That’s why they’re doing a version not based on the comics, to bring a fresh view I guess. It’s kind of a reboot. They do that all the time in comics books with new origin stories. So why not in TV?
I hope just it will be more gritty and dark than the Smallville version.
Who is the audience supposed to be? Won’t be the comic book fans, since it’ll have nothing to do with the comics, and that small group can’t even support 100k in sales volume, and any show aimed squarely at them would die a quick death. Won’t be the Smallville fans, who have their own Green Arrow already. So WHO IS THE AUDIENCE SUPPOSED TO BE?!
“Green Arrow” on TV without Justin Hartley will probably fail.
Y’all know it. They even made the current comic book version to be like the “Smallville” one. It’d be better synergy then for the comics and new-TV to just match up and be Justin Hartley.
Justin is 34 now, so better adult stories can be told, no need for whiny origin-boy again. He’s got a built in fanbase going back to 2006 as “Green Arrow”.
It would be so obvious to anyone else.
Bunch of BS, how many failed pilots does this Oscar winning Justin Hartley have again. His acting skills are all not that top level.
If you dont want to watch the show without your favourite actor then you are free not to and let those who love Green Arrow watch the show. seriously some smallville whinners here are ruining the good news, the show is OVER, get over it or build a time machine already.
But all you “Smallville” fans are forgetting something:
THAT SHOW SUCKED!
You forget something:
Nobody gives a shit about you.
SMALLVILLE IS WELL LOVED!
SUCK ON THAT
And nobody gives shits about you either.
SMALLVILLE IS OVER, GET A LIFE, start living one right now, fiction does end. ARROW IS A NEW SHOW get with the program or get lost.
Arrow isn’t a new show. It’s a failed pilot. GET OVER IT. The writing is on the wall. You must be a plant from Deadman, because not even the retarded writers of GREEN LANTERN BOMB are this stupid.
Yeah, Smallville sucked so bad it stayed on for a DECADE.
A DECADE.
Shut up.
^THIS. Hell yeah
10 years, longest running superhero TV show ever.
Until you can beat it, shut up.
Okay. I wasn’t familiar with this guy or the character. I YOU TUBED scenes from Smallville w/ Green Arrow.
Clearly his family or agent are leaving comments here.
To say it would fail without him is ludicrous.
He’s good looking, but the acting is wooden at best. It really won’t matter though because it’s on the CW–therefore it will be fluff.
I love YouTube. I been YouTubing this Eli Stone crap to see if the Green Lantern losers had any redeeming qualities.
It was the most awful eyes-caring vomit I have ever seen. No wonder that shit bombed on TV. These writers aren’t nothing but a failpile. TV. Movies. All of it failpile. DC must want to kill this to put such shit writers on it.
I’ve been bugging Warner Bros. about this project for seven years. In the right hands, it’s a cheaper, as interesting, Dark Knight franchise. In the wrong hands, it’s silly and everyone laughs at the attempt. This character has endured for 72 years. Please, guys, don’t fuck it up. Oliver Queen is flawed, amazing and worthy of a great franchise.
I wonder why David Nutter never got into feature films? Seems like everyday some new commercials director is landing a movie. Nutter’s Smallville and Supernatural play like freaking movies and darn good ones too. They have action and cgi whizbang and cool style. I seem to remember some ads that resembled Nikita in style too. Those are more impressive calling cards than some of those commercial directors have. So, I’m surprised Nutter hasn’t pursued that.
Hey David, ring up Tom Welling and ask him to finance you a low budget action movie. That dude is loaded. He just dropped a cool million dollars on buying a horse for his wife. He has a new production company and money burning a hole in his pocket. If the movie is as good as David Nutters usual work, it should be a huge hit. Zombieland at a minimum. Do it David.