DC is planning on ramping up their film franchises based on their comic books, and one of the projects on their radar has been Green Arrow. In fact, it appears that TWO Green Arrow projects were being considered simultaneously. An Origin story, and the proposed Supermax.
Fused Film quotes David Goyer about Supermax
“We’re working on that. We’re about to bring on another writer. Obviously, Warner Bros. is now heavily into mining all of the various DC properties.”
The writer mentioned is Justin Marks and he is leaving the project. Goyer also went on to discuss aspects of the Green Arrow character being behind bars:
“We came up with the idea and thought it could work in either the Marvel or the DC universe. It needed that type of character and there are analogues in both universes. Green Arrow seemed to make the most amount of sense.”
I am a looking forward to the Green Arrow on-screen, I like his character in the Smallville universe and think that he can have a similar look and feel that Batman got from Nolan. The SuperMax story also sounds pretty sweet and can’t wait to see what villians they use and when can start to hear more about a release date, etc.
David Goyer told Wizard Magazine last year that, “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.”
Now don’t get me wrong. I like that they are digging up a metric pantload of D-List villains to make this superhero prison break badguy extravaganza into a film.
But why Green Arrow? Couldn’t they do this with just about any B-List super? The Supermax idea is a good one. Hero gets wrongly accused and locked away in a jail for superpowered criminals and has to break out and clear his name. That’s made of neato.
My problem with this is that Green Arrow, aside from being a master martial artist – is just a guy with an uncanny ability with a bow. Take away that Bow and he is still a non superpowered person. Why put him in a jail with other superpowers? There is nothing more than a steel cage needed to restrain him.
Furthermore, the thing that makes Green Arrow all sorts of cool is his bow. So why have a movie introducing the general masses to a character who is great with a bow and then having a good portion of the movie without it?
This thing is filled with plotholes before it even starts. Make an Iron Fist movie and put him in Supermax. Or any other POWERED superhero.
But this other Origin story for Green Arrow would be cool. He was always an Environmental Warrior crossed with Robin Hood (an obvious inspiration)
Other than that, I really look forward to seeing what they can do with Oliver Queen and hopefully keep him in line with the degree of the recent Batman films.
