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- ARROW | 5.13 "Spectre of the Gun" Promo:

- ARROW | 5.13 "Spectre of the Gun" Extended Promo:
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- ARROW | 5.13 "Spectre of the Gun" Inside the episode:
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- Descripción oficial del 5.15 "Fighting fire with fire":
5.15 "Fighting fire with fire" (01/03/17): VIGILANTE ATACA AL ALCALDE QUEEN — Oliver (Stephen Amell) se enfrenta a su mayor reto como alcalde. Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) continúa descendiendo en su oscuro camino con Helix. Después de que Vigilante ataque a Oliver mientras que está actuando como alcelde, Diggle (David Ramsey) lidera el equipo en una misión para detener a Vigilante de una vez por todas. Michael Schultz dirige el episodio escrito por Speed Weed + Ben Sokolowski (#515).

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- Jefe de "Arrow" explica la ausencia de Thea y los obstáculos del enfrentar el próximo regreso de Laurel (TVLine):
Jefe de "Arrow" explica la ausencia de Thea y los obstáculos del enfrentar el próximo regreso de Laurel
Por Matt Webb Mitovich y Vlada Gelman / 13 Feb 2017, 1:53 PM PST


This Wednesday on Arrow (The CW, 8/8c), Thea Queen returns from the longest, most conspicuous off-site conference regarding local government ever. And though her absence was explained on-screen, viewers nonetheless wondered: Why was series regular/original cast member Willa Holland MIA for weeks on end?

At a Monday press screening of this week’s weighty, Rene-centric episode, co-showrunner Marc Guggenheim accounted for Thea’s here-and-there presence.

“Everyone’s like, ‘Where’s Thea? Where’s Thea?’ Willa’s [contracted for] 14 out of 23 episodes this year,” Guggenheim revealed. “She’s not in all 23. That’s not her contract. We’ve had to write around that.”

Contractual matters also may prove a hurdle in bringing Katie Cassidy back for another encore as one Laurel or another, even though Cassidy (as reported over the summer) entered the season with one of those #DCTV-wide deals that theoretically would allow her to pop up on Arrow or any of its many offspring.

“We have an idea for how to see [Katie] again, but we haven’t made a deal with her,” Guggenheim shared. “She’s not a series regular anymore, so we have to make a contract with her, and she’s got to be available. We haven’t had those conversations. But… we know exactly what we do want to do.

“You now know more than Katie does in terms of her involvement at the end of the season,” the EP quipped.

Touching on the larger issue of contracts, Guggenheim acknowledged that it gets “complicated” trying to retain actors for when you might need them, without keeping them from going out for pilot season this time of year.

“We try to make the process invisible in terms of our storytelling,” he said, “but there are just human realities and contractual realities that not only tie our hands, but tie the hands of everyone running a show these days — unless you’re Game of Thrones and you can just literally afford to, like, hold people for an entire year for ungodly sums of money.” (Reporting by Vlada Gelman)



http://tvline.com/2017/02/13/arrow-seas ... a-holland/

- Katie Cassidy Probablemente no se ha marchado para siempre (comicbook):
Katie Cassidy Probablemente no se ha marchado para siempre
Por Kofi Outlaw 13/02/17


The CW's DC TV Universe is a place where the fantastical and impossible happens pretty much daily now, and like the comic books that spawned these shows, death seems to be temporary state of being, at worst.

Case in point are the Lance sisters on Arrow, who have died (in Sarah's case, multiple times), only to resurrected again. Season 4 saw Laurel Lance lose her life at the hands of Damien Darhk, but she's not been all that absent, since then. Actress Katie Cassidy appeared as Laurel in fantasy sequence during Arrow's 100th episode, and more recently she played Laurel's Earth-2 doppleganger Black Siren, who sold Laurel's resurrection to Team Arrow in order to infiltrate them on Prometheus's behalf.

The producers of Arrow and the larger Flarrowverse have repeatedly hinted that there will be more of Laurel Lance/Black Canary to come - and now we have a better ideas of how that might be done.
Katie Cassidy Black Canary Return Flarrowverse

During a Q&A event with Arrow producer Marc Guggenheim, Comicbook.com was among the press present, as Guggenheim described how Laurel may reappear in the Flarrowverse.

According to the show's EP, "We have an idea for how to see her again, but we haven’t made a deal with her yet. She’s not a series regular anymore, so we have to make a contract with her and she’s got to be available, and we haven’t had those conversations [yet]. But we do have an idea. We know exactly what we do want to do."

At this point, there are literally several dimensions and innumerable timelines that Laurel Lance could be plucked from. The Flash and its free run with multiverse theory has made it all possible, so narratively, there's no problem. Behind the scenes, Cassidy has always been generous with fan service; when she wants to play in the Flarrowverse sandbox again (or if producers need her), she'll stop in for a visit - which most Arrow fans would probably agree is enough.


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- Showrunners de "Arrow" sobre el por qué querían hacer un episodio con violencia de armas (comicbook):
Showrunners de "Arrow" sobre el por qué querían hacer un episodio con violencia de armas
Por Russ Burlingame 13/12/2017


With a presentation on DC All Access earlier today, the cat is well and truly out of the bag that this week's episode of Arrow -- which details the backstory of Wild Dog and puts Mayor Oliver Queen at the center of a crisis -- is what used to be called a "Very Special Episode."

The topic is gun violence, and while Arrow is unlikely to make a definitive declaration of which "side" most of the characters are on, it likely shouldn't be a surprise that character like Green Arrow, who has historically tackled political issues, should do so on TV as well.

Last season, Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim suggested that the political environment in the United States was too polarized to make Oliver Queen the mayor of a major city without inadvertently offending someone. This season, he's actually become the mayor -- but for the most part his responsibilities have been delegated to his sister Thea or his friend and deputy mayor Quentin Lance, who took care of their city business largely off-camera.

This week, Oliver will have to perform for the audience at home as well as the people of Star City -- and he won't have a mask to hide behind when he does.

"Well, we went into season 5 wanting to do an episode about an issue," Guggenheim said during a screening of the episode earlier today. "I'm old, so what does this mean? It means that I grew up on St. Elsewhere and Picket Fences and LA Law. I grew up in a time where it was commonplace, like literally every week, for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line we got away from that -- like, the whole industry got away from that. And now you've got like Blackish and Carmichael Show, but as far as network dramas are concerned? Really not tackling current events, current issues. So we went into season 5 with the desire to. It's the fifth season; we've hopefully earned the freedom to, in 23 episodes of television, you can have 22 episodes of candy and one episode of vegetables. We sort of felt that gun violence felt like the right topic, because of its topicality but also because of the level of gun violence that's on Arrow. We could have done an episode on abortion, but that's not really where the show lives, so gun violence sort of felt like the right thing to tackle."

The issue isn't just in the air -- it's been one that DC has already recently explored, albeit not on TV. Writer Christopher Priest and artists Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz recently discussed it in Deathstroke. And as in the case of this week's Arrow, that issue largely centered on characters in their street clothes rather than in costume.

"It was an opportunity, too, to do an episode where he's in the Green Arrow costume," explained Wendy Mericle. It was an episode, from a story perspective, it was really the challenge of figuring out, what would an episode look like where we had to solve the issue of the day or the problem of the week with Oliver Queen as mayor as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow. I think the other thing, when Marc and I talked about doing it and we talked about potentially doing more episodes like this going forward, is the idea that we want to start a conversation....It's important to at least talk about this, and at some point we did get away from that as a country, and we like the idea of hearing both sides -- and hearing both sides as fairly as possible."


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- David Ramsey habla sobre un posible regreso de los miembros del Suicide Squad (comicbook):
David Ramsey habla sobre un posible regreso de los miembros del Suicide Squad
Por Megan Peters 13/02/2017


Thanks to The CW, a slew of DC icons have made their ways from comics to the small screen. Heroes like the Flash and Green Arrow have become even more popular thanks to the network’s live-action adaptations. Over the years, a slew of DC Comics heroes and villains have debuted on the hit dramas, and the Suicide Squad is no exception. Over on Arrow, the group of criminals were featured briefly before the team was forced to disband in light of Warner Brother’s film focusing on the ragtag team.

But, according to one Arrow star, fans should not totally disregard a Suicide Squad comeback on cable.

Recently, David Ramsey spoke with CinemaBlend about his work on Arrow as the show continues with its fifth season. It was there the actor was asked about the possibility of a Suicide Squad comeback, and here’s what the star had to say:

“I can say that we have all the elements. Part of what John Diggle brings to the team is his relationship with ARGUS through his wife Lyla. We're waiting to see how that plays itself out. Diggle was freed last week, and Oliver said to him 'You can go home and hug your wife and son.' So that's a real viable part of Diggle that we have always seen on camera, but it would be nice to see more because he's married to the leader of the Suicide Squad,” Ramsey said.

“What does that play out? How does that look? What are those conversations like? We have all the elements of it... I think we have the makings of it. ARGUS is a real viable part of our whole universe, of Legends, Flash, and Arrow. And Diggle just so happens to be married to the leader of ARGUS, so it's right there ready for the picking.”

Of course, fans had their own response to the team’s departure from Arrow. Even stars of the show commented about Suicide Squad being removed as Willa Holland called out Warner Bros. for forcing the characters off cable.

“We were about season two when they started telling us we had to start basically killing off the Suicide Squad that we were starting to build on our own,” Holland told The Mirror. “We were actually trying to build that on our own on the show, and I guess once DC found out they were going to be doing their own movie of it, we had to ax all of the characters before we even got to show them, which was a little annoying at first.”


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- Arrow toca el debate de las armas en un acalorado episodio (EW):
Arrow toca el debate de las armas en un acalorado episodio
Por Natalie Abrams 14 Feb, 2017 a las 3:31pm EST


Arrow is going where it has never gone before.

During Wednesday’s episode of The CW super series, aptly titled “Spectre of the Gun,” Arrow will dive head-first into the issue of gun violence after a traumatic attack on City Hall divides Team Arrow on the Second Amendment.

“We went into season 5 wanting to do an episode about an issue,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim says, noting that the hour was born out of his throwback nature. “I grew up on St. Elsewhere, Picket Fences, and L.A. Law. I grew up in a time where it was commonplace — like literally every week — for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line, we got away from that — the whole industry got away from that. Now you have Black-ish and Carmichael Show, but as far as network dramas are concerned, [they’re] really not tackling current events, current issues.”

With that in mind, finding the right topic for CW’s flagship superhero series was easy. “Gun violence felt like the right topic because of its topicality, but also because of the level of gun violence that is on Arrow,” Guggenheim says. “We could have done an episode on abortion, but that’s not really where the show lives. So gun violence really felt like the right thing to tackle.”

“It’s the fifth season,” Guggenheim continues. “We’ve hopefully earned the freedom to — in 23 episodes of television, you can have 22 pieces of candy and one episode of vegetables. … I would never want people to watch under false pretenses, so I would probably be very upfront about the fact that it’s not a typical Arrow episode. We do explore the issue of gun violence. I would tease it as the best tasting broccoli you’ll ever have.”

The hour delves into the backstory of Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez), the only member of Team Arrow who actively uses a gun when he goes into the field. “He is a character whose whole superheroics revolve around guns,” Guggenheim notes. Thus, Rene is a proponent of the Second Amendment, which won’t necessarily go over well with the rest of Team Arrow.

But as tensions run high in the Arrow bunker over how best to deal with the situation, Oliver discovers that suiting up as the Emerald Archer may not be the smartest approach. Instead, this is one issue that Mayor Queen must handle. “There was an opportunity also to do an episode where he wasn’t going to get in the Green Arrow costume,” executive producer Wendy Mericle says. “From a story perspective, it was really the challenge of figuring out what would an episode look like where we had to solve the issue of the day, or the problem of the week, with Oliver Queen as mayor as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow.”

The issue of gun safety became a hot topic during the election, with Guggenheim writing half the script in the week before Donald Trump was elected president and the other half after. “As you watch the episode — I write chronologically and linearly — and I think you can see that, in the second half, it’s about guns and gun violence, but it’s also about the state of discourse in our country,” Guggenheim says.

Therefore, beyond the particular right to bear arms, the producers wanted to delve into the actual debate surrounding gun control. “It’s important to at least talk about this,” Mericle says. “At some point, we did get away from that, as a country, and we would like the idea of hearing both sides, and hearing both sides as fairly as possible.”

“I think maybe the only thing we can agree on as Americans is that the country is as fractured now as its ever been since the Civil War,” Guggenheim adds, noting there’s a segment of the population that considers talking about politics to be impolitic. “My point of view and suggestion as a writer is it happened because we all stopped talking to each other.”

Though the show is tackling a polarizing subject, both The CW and Warner Bros. were “unbelievably supportive of this episode from the beginning,” Guggenheim notes. “At the beginning of the season, we told them we wanted to do a gun violence episode, they were like, ‘Great.’ … We got the usual [Standards and Practices] notes in terms of the amount of gun violence, but nothing was compromised. This was very much the episode we intended to do.”

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.



http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/14/arrow-gun-debate/

- Mientras que Arrow apunta al tema del control de armas, Oliver intenta hacer de héroe — como Alcalde (TVLine):
Mientras que Arrow apunta al tema del control de armas, Oliver intenta hacer de héroe — como Alcalde
Por Vlada Gelman / 14 Feb 2017, 4:30 PM PST


Arrow is taking aim at one of the country’s most divisive subjects.

During this Wednesday’s episode (The CW, 8/7c), a shooter opens fire in the mayor’s office, forcing Oliver Queen – not the Green Arrow – to take a stance on gun control.

“We went into Season 5 wanting to do an episode about an issue,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim, who wrote the installment, previews. “I grew up on St. Elsewhere and Picket Fences and L.A. Law. I grew up in a time where it was commonplace – like, literally every week – for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line, the whole industry got away from that.”

Today, comedies such as black-ish and The Carmichael Show frequently explore hot button topics, “but as far as network dramas are concerned, [they’re] really not tackling current events, current issues.”

Having been on the air for five seasons, Arrow has “hopefully earned the freedom to” get weighty once in awhile, Guggenheim hopes. “In 23 episodes of television, you can have 22 pieces of candy and one episode of vegetables.”

For his healthy side dish, the EP chose to mine gun-related crime “because of its topicality, but also because of the level of gun violence” on display on the CW drama.

Arrow Spoilers“There was an opportunity also to do an episode where [Oliver] wasn’t going to get in the Green Arrow costume,” co-showrunner Wendy Mericle notes. “From a story perspective, it was really [about] the challenge of figuring out what would an episode look like where we had to solve the issue of the day or the problem of the week with Oliver Queen as mayor as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow.”

While Oliver tries to puzzle out how to protect Star City via his day job, Curtis and pistol-packing Rene – whose backstory is explored in this week’s flashbacks – butt heads over their opposing viewpoints on gun control.

“[Rene] was someone whose background we really wanted to explore,” Mericle says. “He carries a gun, so he’s a natural spokesman for that point of view.” Curtis, on the flip side, argues for stricter regulations, noting that he’s more likely to be shot as a black man.

Just as important as thosee two sides coming together to find a middle ground is the need for open discussion. “I wrote the first half of the script before [the presidential election on] Nov. 7, and the second half of the script after,” Guggenheim shares. “As you watch the episode – I write chronologically and linearly – I think you can see that in the second half, it’s about guns and gun violence, but it’s also about the state of discourse in our country.”

When Felicity at one point begs her friends to stop debating, Guggenheim realized she was speaking for “the segment of the population who considers talking about politics to be impolitic, something you’re not supposed to [do] in polite company. When did that happen?”

“Whether you voted for Trump or not, I think maybe the only thing we can agree on as Americans is that the country is as fractured now as it’s ever been since the Civil War,” he argues. “And my point of view and suggestion as a writer is it happened because we all stopped talking to each other.”


http://tvline.com/2017/02/14/arrow-spoi ... ol-debate/

- Por qué Arrow decidió romper con la forma y abordar el tema de la violencia de las armas (TVGuide):
Por qué Arrow decidió romper con la forma y abordar el tema de la violencia de las armas
Por Sadie Gennis | 14 Feb, 2017 5:04 PM EST


Arrow is doing something it's never done before.

In Wednesday's episode, appropriately titled "Spectre of the Gun," the CW drama is doing its own twist on a Very Special Episode when a traumatic attack on City Hall leaves Team Arrow divided over the gun control debate.

The incident will also trigger painful memories for Rene (Rick Gonzalez), whose tragic past will be explored through his own series of flashbacks, replacing the typical Oliver-centric flashbacks fans have gotten used to over the past five seasons.

During a press screening with reporters, Arrow executive producers Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle explained why they decided to tackle such an important issue now, what they hope viewers will take away from the episode and whether they plan on doing more episodes like this in the future.

How long have you been wanting to do this episode?
Marc Guggenheim: We went into Season 5 wanting to do an episode about an issue... I grew up in a time where it was commonplace, literally every week, for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line we got away from that. The whole industry got away from that. And now you've got Black-ish and Carmichael Show, but as far as network dramas are concerned, [they're] really not tackling current events, current issues... You know, it's the fifth season. We've hopefully earned the freedom to in - In 23 episodes of television, you can have 22 pieces of candy and one episode of vegetables. We felt that gun violence felt like the right topic, A.) Because of its topicality, but also because of the level of gun violence that is on Arrow. We could have done an episode about abortion, but that's not really where the show lives. So gun violence sort of felt like the right thing to tackle.
Wendy Mericle: We knew that we were talking about the Mayor's office. There was an opportunity also to do an episode where he wasn't going to get in the Green Arrow costume. From a story perspective, it was really the challenge of figuring out [how] we have to solve the issue of the day or the problem of the week with Oliver Queen as the mayor as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow. The other thing when Marc and I talked about doing it and when we talk about doing potentially more episodes like this going forward ... is the idea that you want to start a conversation. It's sort of what Curtis says in the episode, which is, "It's important to at least talk about this." And at some point we did get away from that as a country. And we like the idea of hearing both sides and hearing both sides as fairly as possible.

Did this come together before or after Nov. 7?
Guggenheim: What happened on Nov. 7? No, I'm kidding. Actually, funny you should ask, this was totally not by design, completely accidental, but I wrote the first half of the script before Nov. 7 and the second half of the script after Nov. 7. That week I was writing the script. And I think actually as you watch the episode you can kind of see ... that in the second half it's about guns and gun violence, but it's also about the state of discourse in our country, as Wendy was saying. I'm an unapologetic progressive, but the thing that I've noticed is that not talking about issues serves a conservative agenda, not a liberal agenda. And I do agree with Curtis that I think the country is where it is right now because we stopped talking to each other.

What made Rene the right person to do the flashbacks with in this particular episode?
Mericle: I think he is someone whose background we really wanted to explore. In my mind, he carries a gun. He's a natural spokesman for that point of view.
Guggenheim: We could have done it through any number of our characters. I think there was a real appetite for us and the writing staff to do flashbacks from one of the perspectives of one of our recruits, so that we were just getting to learn more about them. We know a lot about Curtis, obviously. Rory left the team in [Episode] 12. Evelyn had betrayed the team. We also sort of already knew her backstory from Season 4. Rene felt like the right recruit at the right time for all the reasons Wendy was saying. You know, a character whose whole superheroics revolve around guns.

Is it also a testing ground for when Oliver's flashbacks run out?
Guggenheim: Well, we've been doing those - what I call the non-Island flashbacks - since Season 1. We sort of felt like we've done the testing ground. We love those episodes. We love those kind of flashbacks.
Mericle: I think of it as more of a testing ground for the recruits and whether we'd be able to generate enough story and be interested in those stories from the perspectives of those characters. But yes, going forward, for sure, given that we won't have the Island to go to and the flashbacks for Oliver, knowing that we could use other characters and that we have a device that's well-established on the show and knowing we can go to that well if we need to.

It's kind of rare for the show to talk about Star City politically as part of the United States. Is that something that was important to you for this episode -- to talk about the country?
Guggenheim: I think the little judo move that just writing this episode required is obviously gun control is more of a national issue than it is a local issue... In the writing of the actual script and the dialogue, I kept trying to find those opportunities to invoke the idea of the country rather than just the city.

Do you see real-world things influencing the show more going forward?
Guggenheim: It's tough with a superhero show. I think one of the things Wendy and I have struggled with on Arrow is every year we go into the season going, "This year we're going to make it more about the city. This year it's going to be more of a character and you're going to learn what's going on in the city." It wasn't until this year where we actually started doing that. The reason I say that is it just shows how difficult it is getting the city it's set in to influence the stories. Getting the rest of the country in is just hard.

Did you receive more notes for this episode than normal?
Guggenheim: Thank you very much for asking that question, because it gives me an opportunity to say that the studio and network were so unbelievably supportive of this episode from the very beginning. At the beginning of the season, we told them we wanted to do a gun violence episode, they were like "great." We gave them the story idea, which is always the first piece of information the studio and network get; they were like "great." There was a plot twist regarding Edlund's motivations that was in the original conception that, it was actually even in the first draft of the script, that the studio talked us out of. Not because it was controversial, not because they were scared of it -- both the studio and network were incredibly fearless in their support of this episode, but because the plot twist sort of sent ... a message very different from the one we were trying to send. But there was no "this is too far, this is too much." We got the usual [standards and practices] notes in terms of the amount of gun violence, but nothing was compromised. This was very much the episode we intended to do.
Mericle: They were excited about it. They liked it, and they welcomed also that it was taking on an issue, which we hadn't done before, really, on the show. They were genuinely, I think, very enthusiastic and excited.
Guggenheim: I don't think Wendy and I have taken on an issue on television since Eli Stone, which is like nearly 10 years ago, which is a long time ago. Sad.

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on the CW.


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- Marc Guggenheim sobre cómo la elección de Trump juega un papel en el episodio de armas de Arrow (comicbook):
Marc Guggenheim sobre cómo la elección de Trump juega un papel en el episodio de armas de Arrow
Por Jenna Anderson 15/02/2017


While some might turn to television to escape from the current political climate, tonight's Arrow is - in a roundabout way - addressing the situation head on.

The episode, entitled 'Spectre of the Gun', chronicles Team Arrow dealing with gun violence after an attack on the mayor's office of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). The topic creates some division and debate amongst the team, which, according to executive producer Marc Guggenheim, was unintentionally inspired by real events.

When asked if the episode was concieved as a reaction to the election of Donald Drumpf, Guggenheim joked, "What happened November 8?"

He went on to describe how a coincidental writing schedule led to some real-life politics trickling into the episode. "This was totally not by design, completely accidental, but I wrote the first half of the script before November 8, and the second half of the script after November 8. Just that week I was writing the script."

According to Guggenheim, this led to the gun violence-centric episode taking a different, but still culturally relevant turn.

"I think, as you watch the episode -- I write chronologically and linearly -- and I think you can see that, in the second half, it's about guns and gun violence, but it's also about the state of discourse in our country."

Guggenheim, who is frequently outspoken about politics on Twitter, tried to not let his personal affiliation stop him from tackling this kind of story. "Yeah, I mean look: I’m an unapologetic progressive, but the thing that I’ve noticed is that not talking about issues serves a conservative agenda, not a liberal agenda."

Guggenheim cited the beliefs of a particular member of Team Arrow, Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific (Echo Kellum), as a personal standpoint for the episode. "I do agree with Curtis, that I think the country is where it is right now because we stopped talking to each other."


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- Marc Guggenheim sobre qué hace a Oliver diferente de sus villanos (comicbook):
Marc Guggenheim sobre qué hace a Oliver diferente de sus villanos
Por Charlie Ridgely 15/02/2017


Oliver Queen has had a hard time figuring out exactly where his morals lie. Sometimes, he's a straight-shooter. Others? Well, there's always a cost to ridding the city of evil, even if that means using lethal force.

This season on Arrow, Ollie has been even more affected by that conundrum. He constantly finds himself toe-ing the line between what's right and wrong.

According to Marc Guggenheim, Oliver is going to continue that struggle throughout this season.

"I think one of the things you’ll see in the second half of Season 5 is the gray area becomes a lot more gray. We’re really delving into the complexities of Oliver being a killer in a way that we’ve never done on the show before. Like, I think, a lot more nuance and a lot more - in the past, it was like 'I’m a killer or I’m not a killer.' It was very binary. This year is - like you said, it’s super gray, and it’s really messy, and this is a component of it. This is a piece of it for sure. On the walk over here, Wendy and I were just talking about a storyline that, again, continues to make those waters muddier because it is a complex, moral decision, and in many ways, Oliver killing is the seminal moral quandary of the show. That was something I think that spoke to us as writers and spoke to the audience back in Season 1. Like 'This guy kills people.' There’s a big part of the original pitch. We said 'at the end of Act Two, he’s going to break someone’s neck.'"

Not only will the rest of this season see Oliver explore that struggle, but the show will also explore what that means for Arrow's entire world.

"One of the things we are doing in the back half of Season 5 is really getting underneath that and what that means, not just in terms of morality but in terms of psychology -- specifically Oliver’s psychology. There’s things about Oliver’s killing that you have yet to learn."


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- Arrow aborda la violencia de las armas y espera ‘Iniciar una Conversación’ (cbr):
Arrow aborda la violencia de las armas y espera ‘Iniciar una Conversación’
Por Albert Ching 15/02/17


While it isn’t exactly a “very special episode,” “Arrow” executive producers Marc Guggenehim and Wendy Mericle freely admit that tonight’s installment of the DC Comics-based series isn’t a typical one. Amid the superhero action, it takes on the very real issues of gun violence and gun control, and it’s something Guggenehim wanted to do from the onset of the season.

“We went in to season five wanting to do an episode about an issue,” Guggenheim told press including CBR during an event earlier this week at The CW’s Burbank offices. “I’m old. This means that I grew up on ‘St. Elsewhere’ and ‘Picket Fences’ and ‘L.A. Law.’ I grew up in a time when it was commonplace, like literally every week, for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line, the whole industry got away from that. Now you’ve got ‘Black-ish’ and ‘Carmichael Show,’ but as far as network dramas are concerned, really not tackling current issues.”

The episode, titled “Spectre of the Gun,” deals with gun violence both in a present-day attack on Star City’s City Hall, but also in flashbacks detailing a traumatic event in Wild Dog’s (Rick Gonzalez) pre-vigilante life. For Guggenheim, guns were the natural issue to take on through the lens of “Arrow,” given its timeliness and the show’s prominent street-level violence.

Yet the episode also confronts broader issues of debate and discourse, something that Guggenheim said is more salient than ever — the TV veteran and “X-Men Gold” writer said he wrote the first half of the episode before the United States’ 2016 presidential election, and the second half afterwards.

“I think you can see, in the second half [of the episode], it’s about guns and gun violence, but it’s also about the state of discourse in our country,” Guggenheim said. “Whether you voted for Trump or not, I think maybe the only thing we can agree on as Americans is that the country is as fractured now as it’s ever been since the Civil War. My point of view and suggestion as a writer is, it happened because we stopped talking to each other.”

Fitting the theme of the episode, it features fewer scenes of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) in action as the Green Arrow, and more of him in his role as mayor of Star City, as he seeks to take on the complicated issue of gun control not with fisticuffs, but with legislative policy.

“From a story perspective, it was really the challenge of figuring out what would an episode look like where we had to solve the problem of the week with Oliver Queen as mayor, as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow,” Mericle told reporters.

It was also important for both Guggenheim and Mericle that the episode didn’t take any definitive sides on the issue. Some of Team Arrow are shown to be vocal proponents of the right to bear arms, some are clearly more in favor of stricter gun control — and Felicity just wants everyone to stop arguing and focus on the mission. (No spoilers, but you can probably guess who’s on what side.)

“You want to start a conversation,” Mericle said. “At some point we did get away from that as a county, and we like the idea of hearing both sides as fairly as possible.”

That idea was ingrained in Guggenheim following his experience writing for “The Practice,” one of the many David E. Kelley creations — such as the aforementioned “L.A. Law” and “Picket Fences” — unafraid to take on hot topics.

“David always said, I’m not interested in the verdict, I’m just interested in both sides in the case having equal arguments,” Guggenheim said. “Very intentionally, we didn’t want to provide the answer to the audience to the problem of gun violence. We wanted to leave that open, almost as sort of a Rorschach test. One of the goals was to be as — I’m sorry this phrase has been corrupted — ‘fair and balanced’ to the issue as possible.”

Based on the conversation, the “Arrow” EPs appeared up for potential further explorations of topical issues down the line — Guggenheim pointed out that The CW and Warner Bros. Television were both “unbelievably supportive” of this venture — but when asked by CBR if real-world politics may show up in less overt ways in the near future, Guggenheim downplayed the possibility.

“It’s tough with a superhero show,” Guggenheim replied. “I think one of the things Wendy and I have struggled with over the years on ‘Arrow’ is, every year we go into the season going, ‘Yhis year, we’re going to make it more about the city, and the city’s going to be more of a character, and you’re going to learn more about what’s going on in the city.’ It wasn’t until this year where we actually really started doing that.”

“It just shows how difficult just getting the city that the show is set in to influence the stories,” Guggenheim continued. “Getting the rest of the country in is just hard.”

No matter what, Guggenheim hopes that fans of the Arrowverse are open-minded about tonight’s foray into a decidedly nonfiction issue.

“It’s the fifth season,” Guggenheim said. “We’ve hopefully earned the freedom. In 23 episodes of television, you can have 22 pieces of candy and one episode of vegetables. It’s the best tasting broccoli you’ll ever have.”

The “Spectre of the Gun” episode of “Arrow” airs 8 tonight on The CW.


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- Productores de Arrow hablan sobre el “muy especial” episodio sobre el control de armas de esta noche (greenarrowtv):
Productores de Arrow hablan sobre el “muy especial” episodio sobre el control de armas de esta noche
Por Craig Byrne 15/02/17


Tonight’s episode of Arrow titled “Spectre of the Gun” deals not with bee-wielding bad guys or aliens from outer space — it instead tackles a very serious and very real threat of gun violence. As there are even members of Team Arrow who routinely use guns to do their vigilante justice, there will certainly be debates between the characters.

The Green Arrow as a character has long been associated with social issues — Mike Grell’s Green Arrow comic book run certainly did, and Green Lantern/Green Arrow by Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams certainly tackled a lot. But tonight’s Arrow runs toward a topical issue head-on in a way that hour-long broadcast TV dramas haven’t in a while.

“I grew up in a time where it was commonplace — like literally every week — for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line we got away from that, the whole industry got away from that. And now you have Black-ish and Carmichael Show, but as far as network dramas are concerned, [they’re] really not tackling current events, current issues,” Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim explained to a room full of press earlier this week. “We went into Season 5 with the desire to, like, OK, it’s the fifth season. We’ve hopefully earned the freedom to. In 23 episodes of television, you can have 22 pieces of candy and one episode of vegetables. We sort of felt that gun violence felt like the right topic, a) because of its topicality but also because of the level of gun violence that is on Arrow. We could have done an episode on abortion, but that’s not really where the show lives, so gun violence really felt like the right thing to tackle.”

Fellow EP Wendy Mericle also saw tonight’s episode as an opportunity to have Oliver save the day ourside of the Green Arrow costume. “From a story perspective, it was really the challenge of figuring out what would an episode look like where we had to solve the issue of the day or the problem of the week with Oliver Queen as mayor as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow. The other thing when Marc and I talked about doing it, when we talk about doing potentially more episodes like this going forward — you know, still one serving of vegetables a season, but still — is the idea that you want to start a conversation. AsCurtis says in the episode, is it’s important to at least talk about this. At some point we did get away from that, I think, as a country, and we would like the idea of hearing both sides and hearing both sides as fairly as possible,” she explained.

“Spectre of the Gun” also offers the chance to explore the backstory of Rene Ramirez, a.k.a. Wild Dog, as played by Rick Gonzalez. “I think there was a real appetite for us and the writing staff to do flashbacks from the perspective of one of our recruits so that we were just getting to learn more about them. We know a lot about Curtis, obviously. Rory left the team in 12. Evelyn had betrayed the team. And we also sort of already knew her backstory from Season 4. Rene felt like the right recruit at the right time for all the reasons Wendy was saying. He is a character whose whole superheroics revolve around guns,” Marc said. Rick does indeed play a large role in the episode, giving one of this installment’s best performances.


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- Productores ejecutivos de Arrow aobre el origen secreto de Wild Dog (comicbook):
Productores ejecutivos de Arrow aobre el origen secreto de Wild Dog
Por Jenna Anderson 15/02/17


Spoilers for tonight's Arrow below!

Tonight's Arrow was a unique one. Beyond tackling the complicated problem of gun violence, and having ties to the current political climate, it was noteworthy for putting a new twist on its typical flashbacks. Instead of following the adventures of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) dealing with the Russian Bratva, tonight's flashbacks expanded on the backstory Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez).

When asked why Rene's flashbacks were a focus of the episode, executive producer Wendy Mericle said that she believed it was a logical step with the plot of the episode. In the flashbacks, Rene's life with his wife and daughter are shown, before a robber broke into their house and shot Rene's wife dead.

"I think it was that he was someone whose background we really wanted to explore." Mericle told ComicBook.com. "And I think he’s a natural proponent. He carries a gun, he’s a natural spokesman for that point of view."

Exeuctive producer Marc Guggenheim echoed this sentiment. "I think there was a real appetite for us and the writing staff to do flashbacks from the perspective of one of our recruits, so that we were just getting to learn more about them. We know a lot about Curtis, obviously. Rory left the team. Evelyn had betrayed the team. And we also sort of already knew her backstory from Season 4. Rene felt like the right recruit at the right time, for all the reasons Wendy was saying. He is a character whose whole superheroics revolve around guns."

According to the pair, Rene's backstory has been a through line since his first appearance on the show, particularly with an exchange between him and John Diggle earlier in the season.

"We definitely talked about the tragedy with his daughter." Mericle explained. "We knew that and that was part of setting that up a little bit, foreshadowing that he has a stake as a family man. He shared that moment with John and understood what he was going through... We knew he had a family and something tragic happened, but not specifically what."

"If you go back and you rewatch it in light of this episode," Guggenheim echoes. "You go, 'Oh! He definitely had a kid.' We knew that component of it, but we didn’t know the specifics."

If fans are looking for more of Rene's backstory, Guggenheim and Mericle say they might have to wait a little while longer. "We know specifically what each episode's flashback content will be and we're not going to see another Rene-centric flashback this year. But maybe season 6!"


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- ¿Qué aporta la nueva Black Canary al Team Arrow? (comicbook):
¿Qué aporta la nueva Black Canary al Team Arrow?
Por Russ Burlingame 15/02/2017


You get worn in and jaded pretty quickly on Team Arrow -- and so even in a season where Oliver has recruited a number of new heroes, the introduction of a new Black Canary is a game-changer...and something that will give Oliver, Diggle, Curtis, and Felicity an outside voice.

Dinah Drake, played by The Walking Dead's Juliana Harkavy, joined the team two weeks ago, and while she's making some big strides toward carving out a unique identity for herself, it's difficult to see just yet what she brings to the table that's different from the previous two Canaries, or other members of the team.

"I think what’s interesting to us about Dinah is she kind of offers this fresh perspective to the team," Guggenheim told reporters during a screening of tonight's episode. "In many ways she’s kind of acting like our Greek chorus. You know, she comes to the team without the burden of having been trained by Oliver, and without the burden of dealing with all of Oliver’s secrets and, you know, in some cases, in previous seasons, lies and mishegas. So she just has a nice clean perspective that isn’t so much about where she’s living as it is about, sort of what she’s been through, and her backstory. But her backstory also is not being someone who was a member of Team Arrow, who comes to the team without the baggage of the past four seasons."

Of course, the last time a member of the team was introduced that didn't get trained by Oliver from the get-go...well, let's just say Artemis wasn't what she appeared. Maybe it will work out a little better this time...!


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- Productores ejecutivos de Arrow adelantan el siguiente movimiento de Prometheus (comicbook):
Productores ejecutivos de Arrow adelantan el siguiente movimiento de Prometheus
Por Jenna Anderson 15/02/2017


While he has appeared occasionally throughout the past few episodes, Prometheus has still remained a mystery throughout the back half of Arrow's fifth season. The secret masked villain has been tormenting Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and the rest of Team Arrow for months now, but his overall plan and goal remain relatively unclear.

According to one of the show's executive producers, however, that is all about to change with next week's episode, entitled 'The Sin-Eater'. Marc Guggenheim recently revealed that not only will the villain appear in the February 22nd episode, but his past actions will start to connect.

"You know, it’s funny." Guggenheim explained to ComicBook.com. "For me, [episode 5x14] is this fulcrum where a lot of the little seeds that had been planted in the first half of the season start to come to fruition. And you start to realize that Prometheus has been setting up a chess board."

Guggenheim wants fans to keep an eye out for the conclusion of the episode, as it will particularly reveal parts of the villain's motive. "The episode ends, I think, with sort of the next key move in Prometheus’ grand plan."

For fans theorizing about Prometheus' identity, however, it's unclear if 'The Sin-Eater' will reveal who is hiding under the mask, or if viewers will have to continue watching to find out.


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- Arrow ahonda en la psicología de asesino de Oliver (EW):
Arrow ahonda en la psicología de asesino de Oliver
Por Natalie Abrams 15 Feb, 2017 a las 9:00pm EST


Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Arrow. Read at your own risk!

Oliver Queen saved the day once again — this time as mayor.

After a shooter targeted City Hall during Wednesday’s episode of Arrow, Oliver (Stephen Amell) needed to use his power as the mayor, not as the Green Arrow, to save his city. Oliver was successful in pleading with the shooter, who had taken his anger out on Star City’s government for failing to pass a gun safety law after his family was killed in a shooting. Ironic, yes, but will the shooter’s actions impact Oliver’s opinion on killing moving forward?

“One of the things you’ll see in the second half of season 5 is the gray area becomes a lot more gray,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim says. “We’re really delving into the complexities of Oliver being a killer in a way that we’ve never done on the show before.”

Whereas past seasons have been very black-and-white when it comes to Oliver’s decision to kill his enemies — it’s been his modus operandi to take no prisoners for most of the series — this season will explore the reasons why. “In many ways, Oliver killing is the seminal moral quandary of the show,” Guggenheim says. “One of the things we are doing in the back half of season 5 is really getting underneath that and what that means, not just in terms of morality, but in terms of psychology — specifically Oliver’s psychology. There’s things about Oliver’s killing that you have yet to learn.”

By hour’s end, Oliver enacted a gun safety law — the details of which aren’t expressly revealed — but don’t expect those new regulations to necessarily change Team Arrow’s operations moving forward. “Oliver’s decision to kill or not to kill has huge moral implications not just for him, but for the team and the people who work for him,” executive producer Wendy Mericle says. “But for the rest of the season, we’ll definitely be exploring the ramifications of that decision — not necessarily with regards to the gun control laws now that they exist, and what does that mean for the team when they’re out in the field, but definitely in respect to Felicity [Emily Bett Rickards] and to some extent Curtis [Echo Kellum] as well, with what they’re going through. How do they square their own circles morally with the actions that they’ve taken?”

Regardless of the new laws, Oliver & Co. will face opposition very soon. “In the very next episode, Team Arrow is going to come up against the police for a very different kind of reason,” Guggenheim teases. The logline for next week’s episode reveals that the SCPD targets the Green Arrow for the murder of Detective Malone, which should make things very interesting considering Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy) has just joined the police department.

“Dinah offers this fresh perspective to the team,” Guggenheim says. “In many ways, she’s kind of acting like our Greek chorus. She comes to the team without the burden of having been trained by Oliver and without the burden of dealing with all of Oliver’s secrets — and in some cases, in previous seasons, lies and mishegoss. So she just has a nice, clean perspective that isn’t so much about where she’s living as it is about what she’s been through and her backstory. But her backstory also is not being someone who was a member of Team Arrow, who comes to the team without the baggage of the past four seasons.”

Little does Oliver know, being targeted by the SCPD may be the least of his worries. After all, his girlfriend Susan (Carly Pope) not only uncovered Ollie’s connection to the Bratva but now suspects that Oliver could actually be the Green Arrow. What she’ll do with that information, however, remains to be seen. “It seems like the general prevailing theories about how we’re going to pay that subplot off are wrong,” Guggenheim says. “Everyone’s expecting something we’re not doing, for better or for worse.”

Oliver also has to contend with the growing threat that is Prometheus, with Arrow planning to explore more of the Big Bad in next week’s hour. “Episode 14 is this fulcrum where a lot of the little seeds that had been planted in the first half of the season start to come to fruition, and you start to realize that, ‘Oh, Prometheus has been setting up a chess board,'” Guggenheim says. “The episode ends with the next key move in Prometheus’ grand plan.”

As for when viewers will find out who’s actually under that mask, Guggenheim notes the reveal will come “later than we typically do,” though declined to be more specific about Prometheus’ identity. “Anytime we do a reveal on the show, it’s always with the intention of not just surprising the audience, but also of resetting the board and resetting the characters’ perspectives, and the characters having a profound reaction to things,” he continues. “Hopefully, we’ll do that again. … I feel good about what our game plan is.”

And that game plan has been in place since the start of the season — at least as it pertains to knowing Prometheus’ identity. “Yes, we knew from the beginning,” Guggenheim says. “No, it hasn’t changed. I think I’ve said this in a bunch of different ways over the last five years, but we always go in with a plan. We do tend to call audibles as we get inspired and get new ideas. A year is a long time. But generally speaking, something that major, like the mystery of the identity of the Big Bad, we’re pretty dialed into it from the jump.”

Despite whatever Prometheus has planned for Oliver, the producers seem relatively positive that, in his new position as mayor, Oliver may actually not fail this city. “Thea’s [Willa Holland] gonna make a good case to Oliver, of all people, for all the things he’s accomplished as mayor, and you start to see like, ‘Oh wait, in the first 13 episodes, he actually kind of did some stuff.’ And he’s not done yet. Obviously, the season’s not done yet, but we definitely went into the season with the goal of showing that Oliver is actually much better at this job than you might expect.”


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- Productores ejecutivos de Arrow sobre el futuro de Oliver como asesino y las 'implicaciones morales' para el equipo (TVLine):
Productores ejecutivos de Arrow sobre el futuro de Oliver como asesino y las 'implicaciones morales' para el equipo
Por Vlada Gelman / 15 Feb 2017, 6:00 PM PST


Arrow is poised to take aim at the homicidal side of its titular hero following Wednesday night’s atypical gun control-themed episode.

During the hour, a disgruntled husband and father, who lost his family in a mass shooting, opened fire at the mayor’s office, killing at least seven people. While Oliver The Politician took a strong stance on gun control regulation in the tragedy’s aftermath, the question remains: Will the loss of life and ensuing firearms debate impact his stance on killing as Green Arrow?

“One of the things you’ll see in the second half of Season 5 is the gray area becomes a lot more gray,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim says. “We’re really delving into the complexities of Oliver being a killer in a way that we’ve never done on the show before, with a lot more nuance. In the past, it was like, ‘I’m a killer,’ or, ‘I’m not a killer.’ It was very binary. This year… it’s super gray and it’s really messy, and this [episode] is a component of it.”

“In many ways, Oliver killing is the seminal, moral quandary of the show,” the EP continues. “That was something that spoke to us as writers and spoke to the audience back in Season 1. Like, this guy kills people. It was a big part of the original pitch. We said, ‘At the end of Act Two, he’s going to break someone’s neck.’ One of the things we’re doing in the back half of Season 5 is really getting underneath that and what that means, not just in terms of morality, but in terms of psychology, specifically Oliver’s psychology. There are things about Oliver’s killing that you have yet to learn.”

The archer is not the only one who will be tested by the choices that he’s made. Whether he kills or not also has “huge moral implications” for Team Arrow, co-showrunner Wendy Mericle previews. “For the rest of the season, we’ll definitely be exploring the ramifications of that decision… in respect to Felicity and, to some extent, Curtis as well. How do they square their own circles morally with the actions that they’ve taken?”

And if you’re wondering just what kind of middle ground was reached by the new gun control regulations, don’t expect a detailed answer.

“We left that intentionally vague,” Guggenheim explains. “My first gig in the business was on a show called The Practice. [Creator David E. Kelley] always said, ‘I’m not interested in the verdict. I’m just interested in both sides in the case having equal arguments.’ Very intentionally, we didn’t want to provide [an] answer to the problem of gun violence. We wanted to leave that open to the audience as almost like a Rorschach test.”

But will the new laws, whatever they might be, come into conflict with the vigilantes? “Not the regulations, specifically,” Guggenheim says. “In the very next episode, Team Arrow is going to come up against the police for a very different kind of reason.”


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- Productores ejecutivos de 'Arrow' se abren sobre el episodio de la violencia de las armas y la historia de orígenes de Wild Dog (etonline):
Productores ejecutivos de 'Arrow' se abren sobre el episodio de la violencia de las armas y la historia de orígenes de Wild Dog
Por Meredith B. Kile 6:00 PM PST, 15 Feb, 2017


Warning: Spoiler alert! Do not proceed if you haven’t watched Wednesday’s episode of Arrow.

This week’s Arrow dove deep into the controversial issue of gun control and public safety, using a shooting at City Hall to pull Oliver (Stephen Amell) into a political minefield and giving him the opportunity to try and save his city as its mayor, rather than the masked vigilante Green Arrow.

According to executive producer Marc Guggenheim, the episode, titled “Spectre of the Gun,” is something he’s been wanting to tackle in the Arrow-verse for quite some time.

“We went into season five wanting to do an episode about an issue,” Guggenheim told reporters on Monday. “I grew up in a time where it was commonplace -- literally, every week -- for a one-hour drama to tackle the issues of the day. Somewhere along the line, we got away from that.”

“Now, you've got Black-ish and The Carmichael Show, but as far as network dramas are concerned, [they're] really not tackling current events, current issues,” he continued. “We felt that gun violence felt like the right topic because of its topicality, but also because of the level of gun violence that is on Arrow. We could have done an episode about abortion, but that's not really where the show lives. So gun violence sort of felt like the right thing to tackle.”

After discovering that the City Hall attacker is a man who lost his family in a mass shooting, Oliver confronts him -- in his mayoral suit and tie, rather than the Green Arrow’s hood -- and talks him out of his vendetta. He also takes some important political steps, working with a conservative councilwoman to enact the Star City Firearms Freedom Act.

“There was an opportunity also to do an episode where [Oliver] wasn't going to get in the Green Arrow costume,” Arrow EP Wendy Mericle explained. “From a story perspective, it was really the challenge of figuring out [how] we have to solve the issue of the day or the problem of the week with Oliver Queen as the mayor as opposed to him gearing up as the Green Arrow.”

The episode also provided the origin story for Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez), a “natural spokesman” for the Second Amendment as one of the only members of Team Arrow to carry guns as part of his vigilante getup.

“I think there was a real appetite for us and the writing staff to do flashbacks from one of the perspectives of one of our recruits, so that we were getting to learn more about them,” Guggenheim noted. “We know a lot about Curtis, obviously. Rory left the team in [episode] 12. Evelyn had betrayed the team… Rene felt like the right recruit at the right time -- a character whose whole superheroics revolve around guns.”

Despite the reveal that his wife died as the result of an accidental gunshot from a home invader, Rene still advocates for the freedoms of the Second Amendment. This leads to some pushback from his friends and team members, like Curtis (Echo Kellum) -- who notes that, as a black man, he’s the most likely member of the team to die from gun violence -- and Lance (Paul Blackthorne), who muses that cops are always in favor of having less guns on the street.

Others members of Team Arrow, like new recruit Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy), support Rene’s stance, while still others, like Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), don’t want to have the debate at all, a point of view that the producers emphasized as one of their inspirations for writing the episode in the first place.

"It's important to at least talk about this," Mericle said, echoing Curtis’ point. “At some point we did get away from that as a country. And we like the idea of hearing both sides and hearing both sides as fairly as possible.”

“I think maybe the only thing we can agree on as Americans is that the country is as fractured now as it’s been since the Civil War,” Guggenheim added. “My point of view, and suggestion as a writer, is [that] it happened because we all stopped talking to each other.”

While the episode might have dealt with a controversial topic, the Arrow producers said that The CW and Warner Bros. were “incredibly fearless” in allowing them to carry out their vision for “Spectre of the Gun.”

“The studio and network were so unbelievably supportive of this episode from the very beginning,” Guggenheim said. “We got the usual [standards and practices] notes in terms of the amount of gun violence, but nothing was compromised. This was very much the episode we intended to do.”

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.


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- No es ‘El Ala Oeste,’ pero el alcalde Queen es vital para Star City, dicen los productores ejecutivos de ‘Arrow’ (screenertv):
No es ‘El Ala Oeste,’ pero el alcalde Queen es vital para Star City, dicen los productores ejecutivos de ‘Arrow’
Por Chris E. Hayner 15 Feb, 2017


When it came to the real world situation of a mass shooting on "Arrow," it wasn't a costumed superhero that saved the day -- it was the mayor of Star City. Of course, both of those people happen to be Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell).

It was a startling change to see practically no Green Arrow in an episode of "Arrow," instead letting Oliver's public persona play the role of hero. In "The Dark Knight" parlance, Mayor Queen is the hero Star City needs in that moment. The question is whether he'll continue to be what the city needs.

Executive producer Marc Guggenheim: "We went into Season 5 with the mindset of -- Oliver is mayor, so without it turning into 'The West Wing,' how are we going to find ways to have Oliver be active as mayor? And to everyone’s surprise, end up being a good mayor? ...You’ll start to see, actually -– and this is true in next week’s episode, in episode 14 -– Thea’s (Willa Holland) gonna make a good case to Oliver, of all people, for all the things he’s accomplished as mayor... You start to see like, oh wait, in the first 13 episodes he actually kind of did some stuff! And he’s not done yet."

While Season 4 saw the Green Arrow unite Star City to fight Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), you can't deny all the good Oliver has done for his city this year of his green costume. It's enough to make you wonder which side of him is truly best for the city -- and which one Oliver can live with.

This season has seen a massive uptick in Green Arrow's tendency to kill while seeking out vigilante justice, which as mayor would be something you'd think he would stand against. However, he's become so dedicated to his mission that he practically can't help himself. Don't believe us? Ask Felicity's boyfriend about Oliver's "kill first, ask questions later" ways.

But that's nothing new, as Guggenheim explains, "Oliver killing is the seminal moral quandary of the show. That was something I think that spoke to us as writers and spoke to the audience back in Season 1."

He's a different man now, though -- and operating in a far shadier area than he once did. That's something the show is going to explore, according to executive producer Wendy Mericle.

"One of the things we are doing in the back half of Season 5 is really getting underneath that, and what that means: Not just in terms of morality, but in terms of psychology -- specifically, Oliver’s psychology," she says. "There’s things about Oliver’s killing that you have yet to learn."

Once Oliver confronts those things, revealing them to the audience, what will his legacy be? Don't forget that Oliver's destiny is a central theme this season. What will Oliver think when he ultimately learns what his legacy is? And furthermore, will he go out of his way to change it?

Perhaps this will be the dawn of Oliver Queen, rather than the resurrection of the Green Arrow. But if that's the case... What becomes of the vigilante life he's grown over five seasons?

"Arrow" airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.


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- Productores ejecutivos de Arrow adelantan el papel de Thea siguiendo adelante en la Season 5 (comicbook):
Productores ejecutivos de Arrow adelantan el papel de Thea siguiendo adelante en la Season 5
Por Jenna Anderson 15/02/2017


Among the other reasons that tonight's episode of Arrow was noteworthy, it saw the return of a fan-favorite character. Thea Queen (Willa Holland) had previously been away on a business conference over the course of the past three episodes.

But tonight, she returned to help her brother Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) serve as mayor in a time of crisis. And according to the show's executive producers, viewers will see more of Thea in upcoming episodes.

"She’s headed in a direction that’s very similar to where her mother was before she was killed in Season 2. We’re excited about it." revealed Wendy Mericle.

For hardcore Thea fans, rest assured, this doesn't mean that her character will die. Although Holland does have a smaller contract with the show - which explains why she hasn't been in all of this season's episodes - she remains an integral connection to the show's earliest seasons, as well as Oliver's only living familial connection.

According to Mericle, this connection between the siblings will play into Thea's storyline going into the rest of the season.

"I’m actually really excited about her storyline because we’re taking her to a place where she’s been dealing with all of these issues the same way Oliver has, with her bloodlust and with her other elements of her past. And this season’s going to find her in a similar place but for very different reasons. There’s gonna be a great scene coming up between Oliver and Thea that’s one of my favorites on the show."

Executive producer Marc Guggenheim echoed this, highlight the dynamic between the siblings while they both work in the mayor's office. "There’s some really terrific Oliver/Thea scenes in next week’s episode and beyond. It’s been so much fun to have her in the mayor’s office and we’ve really been enjoying writing for them."

Fans will have to wait and see what exactly Thea's storyline entails, and how it will carry into the rest of this season of Arrow and beyond.


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- Las teorías de los fans sobre Susan Williams están muy alejadas (comicbook):
Las teorías de los fans sobre Susan Williams están muy alejadas
Por Jenna Anderson 15/02/2017


Part of the fun of keeping up with a television show week by week is theorizing the exact ways that certain plotlines will come to fruition. But with one Arrow plotline, it's starting to sound like fans need to expect the unexpected.

Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim hinted that the relationship between Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and Susan Williams (Carly Pope) will play out in an unpredictable way. Oliver and Susan are now officially in a romantic relationship, even sleeping together at the end of last week's episode, 'Bratva'. Oliver even actively made a point to defend Susan from Thea Queen's (Willa Holland) teasing.

But Susan appears to be secretly uncovering some sort of news story about Oliver's ties to the Bratva - and possibly revealing his identity as the Green Arrow to the public.

"I'll just say, based upon what little [fan theories I've seen] ...I try to avoid online, but it's online, so it's impossible to completely avoid stuff. It seems like the general prevailing theories about how we're going to play that subplot off are wrong." Guggenheim explained to ComicBook.com. "That's kind of my impression. Everyone's expecting something we're not doing, for better or for worse."

Those fan theories about Susan's alliances range from her directly being involved with the Bratva, to her being related to or aligning with the season's big bad, Prometheus. At this point, it's unclear which of those theories Guggenheim is referring to, or if elements of them will still appear on the show in some way.

It appears that fans that are curious about Susan Williams - and how exactly any revelations of her will impact her relationship with Oliver - will just have to wait and see.


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- ARROW | 5.14 "The Sin-Eater" Promo:

- ARROW | 5.14 "The Sin-Eater" Extended Promo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYfPpOlk0A



- ARROW | 5.14 "The Sin-Eater" Inside the episode:
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- ARROW | 5.14 "The Sin-Eater" Clip #1:

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- Revelados título y créditos del 5.18:
El productor Marc Guggenheim ha desvelado en su cuenta de twitter el título y créditos del episodio 5.18, que empieza su producción:

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El episodio 5.18 tiene por título "Disbanded". Está escrito por Rebecca Bellotto, y dirigido por J.J. Makaro.


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- Stephen Amell reflexiona sobre el legado de Oliver y adelanta una potencial tragedia (EW):
Stephen Amell reflexiona sobre el legado de Oliver y adelanta una potencial tragedia
Por Natalie Abrams 21 Feb, 2017 at 7:34pm EST


Oliver Queen has truly been through the wringer this season.

During the fifth season of Arrow, Oliver (Stephen Amell) initially took up trying to protect the city without his team, trained a ragtag quartet of vigilantes, one of which went on to betray him — all while trying to lead the city as mayor.

Ollie’s job was made more difficult by the rise of a mysterious new big bad, Prometheus, who viewers came to learn was the son of one of the men on Oliver’s famed list of corrupt Star City citizens he targeted in season 1. Oliver’s past was literally coming back to haunt him as the legacy he’s thus far created was tested, especially when Prometheus essentially tricked Oliver into killing Anti-Crime Unit detective, and Felicity’s (Emily Bett Rickards) new boyfriend, Billy Malone (Tyler Ritter).

As Prometheus plans his endgame, so does Arrow — at least in terms of the original five-year plan for the series. (Don’t worry, Arrow has already been renewed for season 6.) EW hit the set of the Vancouver-based series to get Amell’s take on Oliver’s current predicaments as the show builds toward its big season 5 finale:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We know that Oliver is going to end up back on the island this year. What surprised you about how he gets there?
STEPHEN AMELL: How it ends, I think, is going to be surprising, which is odd because we pick up what happens right at the beginning of pilot. I actually don’t know a ton about what’s going to happen when he gets back to the island. I just know that one of the things that I’ve been pitching in terms of just a logistical thing is going to actually be something that we utilize.

Arrow’s been going pretty dark in these last couple episodes. Do you feel like the show’s going back to that season 1 feel?
Well, it has to. One of the biggest revelations that we have this year is Oliver learning something about the person that he was in season 1, and more importantly, the person that we’re seeing in the flashbacks. He’s unchained in Russia in terms of responsibilities, and it has gone really dark in the flashbacks, but to me, that doesn’t negate the growth that Oliver has experienced. Obviously [between] season 1 and season 2, there was a very profound difference. His ability to not kill Slade at the end of season 2 was important, and his ability to walk away at the end of season 3 was important, and his ability to not view the world completely in black and white at the end of season 4 and killing Damien Darhk again was important because it really showcased that it really is about protecting the people who are closest to him. That’s going to force him into morally questionable decisions; to always take the moral high ground is just not a luxury that he has.

During Wednesday’s episode, the police actually target the Green Arrow. What is Oliver facing both as Green Arrow, but also as mayor?
Well, it’s interesting what we have coming up. Oliver gets put into a situation where we’re effectively vilifying the Green Arrow with a lot of things that I’m not entirely sure that we can unpack, in terms of what people are accusing him of, what the mayor’s backing up and saying he did, because he doesn’t have a choice, and it’s a lot for Oliver to deal with as mayor. We actually get to focus on the task of governing Star City, and I’ve really been enjoying it. We’ve actually had multiple episodes where in one episode I’m simply not in the Arrow suit and then multiple episodes where I’m in it for a very, very short period of time, which is a departure for us. A lot of things that we’re doing this year feel like a departure for us, and I know that that has created certain elements of angst in the fan base. People like certain things, but you just have to do it. You have to constantly try new things as a television show.

In a season that’s taking a look at Oliver’s legacy, does he feel at fault for everything that’s happened because it all stems from his choices in the past?
That’s a trope that we lean on a lot in the show, but I actually don’t feel as though Oliver has done that. Obviously, he’s responsible for the death of Detective Malone, and we even reference in an upcoming episode that that’s something that he’s going to live with for the rest of his life, but I feel as though Oliver has really moved past the past where he might have been a little bit mopey.

I’ve actually been thinking a lot about the team in general and everybody — this is not to say that they haven’t gone through some aspects of tragedy, but Diggle was in a federal prison and is now at the very least seeming happier and on the path to redemption. We’re moving into a very interesting arc for Felicity and a purpose for her that exists outside the team, which I think is incredibly important. Curtis is in a better spot despite the fact that he’s having some marital issues. Rene was kind of a directionless individual until he found the team. Same goes for Dina in terms of she was someone who was on a murder spree and then became lost because she didn’t have a purpose anymore, and now she’s finding it on the team. Even Quentin seems to be on the road back a little bit. Obviously the main exception there is Thea, and I think that there’s a significant worry for the state of his sister, but in general, I feel like there is a bit of a sense of accomplishment. Again, it’s not without tragedy, because that’s the nature of our show.

How will Oliver feel about Felicity returning to her hacktivist ways and forging her own path?
I like the way that we handled it. He knows that she’s into something, and he’s bothered right now — not that she might have a new venture, but by a certain response that she gives when Oliver catches John doing something [in the Russia episode]. That episode is a lot about me knowing that something is going on with both of their characters, and they’re just not telling me. Now, there is some resolution for John toward the end of that episode, but for Felicity’s character, it’s not something that she and Oliver discuss until they have what I think is actually quite an adult conversation about it. But he knows that she’s into something, and he knows that she doesn’t want to tell him about it, so he’s dealing with that in his own way.

Do you think Felicity and Oliver can ever get back to where they were in terms of a solid working relationship?
I mean, there was a distance in the early part of the year. And I never want to sail over something as traumatic and significant as the fact that Oliver was tricked into killing Detective Malone and everything that that’s putting Felicity through. I do think that there are a lot of unanswered questions in terms of how did they get from where they were at the end of season 4 to where we found them in season 5, and I am positive that we answer those questions.

Do you think they ever could be a couple again?
Sure. Of course. We know what came between them; it was a lack of trust. Felicity walked away, and Oliver let her. I mean, we live in a television world. Fences can always be mended.

Oliver also believes that Black Siren can be redeemed. Will we see more of that by season’s end?
I don’t know if we see it before the end of the season, but I do like that idea, and I do take that as a sign of growth that he’s looking for that little kernel [of redemption] that maybe exists somewhere.

What can you tease of what Talia al Ghul actually wants from Oliver? How does Oliver not make that connection when meeting Ra’s al Ghul and Nyssa al Ghul?
Well, pay very close attention to whether or not she ever says her last name. A) She never says her last name, and B) I understand that this can get slightly confusing, but Oliver has never met, at this point in the story, Ra’s, has never met Nyssa, knows nothing of the fact that Sara is alive, is unaware that Malcolm was part of the League — he doesn’t know any of these things. It’s as simple as Talia is her own woman who sought Oliver out because she thought he had the capacity to do good in the world. It is something that we address in the show coming up pretty soon.

With Prometheus teeing up his endgame, does Oliver worry that everyone around him either ends up dead or hurt?
That’s one of the interesting things. To me, one of the interesting things about Prometheus is how little he cares about the people that surround Oliver. They are all simply pawns to take him down, which obviously does inherently put them in danger, but I think that one of the things that Oliver’s done over the course of this year is just learned to trust people and learned to accept that when someone says, “I know the risks, I choose to be involved anyway,” that that’s their decision to make. I think Oliver worrying that everyone in his life that he touches somehow dies is hopefully something that he can get over, because that’s just the nature of the path that he chose.

We know that the flashbacks are going to be over by the time we get to the end of the season. What does that mean for a sixth season? What do you hope to see, as the show is basically not beholden to anything moving forward?
I am open and excited about any possible idea, whether that’s a simple flash-forward narrative that we carry through the season, which I think we did to varying degrees of success in season 4. If that means that simply the flashbacks do not exist anymore and it allows us to expand the universe in terms of focusing more on other people’s backstories, not even necessarily flashbacks of people’s home life, just their life outside of the Arrow cave, I think that’s interesting. We can do that because, quite simply, we have more time, we have more pages, we have more chance for dialogue. I know they’re kicking around some ideas, but truthfully I have no earthly idea if there is any sort of element that we will be bringing into season 6 or if we just simply acknowledge that we pitched the show as a five-year origin story and we got to do it, which I think in and of itself is an accomplishment. There’s not a ton left on television from new shows from 2012. Just the fact that we made it that far is worth patting ourselves on the back for, ever so briefly.

Would you want to see a flash-forward to Oliver’s death? Whether it’s a flash-forward to a year from now, 10 years from now, whatever, is that something that would ever interest you?
Yeah. I think that the key to a story like that is that — look, Green Arrow was obviously pitched as a five-year origin story, but we’re breaking the flashback story as we go along. There’s always an overarching plan, but it generally has to go season to season. Like, I don’t think we knew at the beginning of the season that at the end of season 2, Oliver would end up in Hong Kong. We don’t necessarily know that stuff, and that’s just the nature of episodic television in 23 episodes a year. I think that the critical element, if we ever did something like a flash-forward, would be to make sure that we understood the precise beginning point and end point of that story and all the things that went into it, because I think that if we try to piecemeal it together, especially because it’s a flash-forward, that it just wouldn’t work. You know what I mean? We’d have to know the end game if we did something like that. I mean look, I’ve always had a very specific idea for how the series would end. It came to me at some point during season 1, and whether it’s through a flash-forward or whatever, I just hope that we end up getting to do that.



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- Stephen Amell está abierto a que Arrow cambie a los Flash Forwards (cbr):
Stephen Amell está abierto a que Arrow cambie a los Flash Forwards
Por Brett White 22 Febrero 2017


Since its launch in 2012, the CW’s “Arrow” has divided its time between the modern day tales of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and his vigilante actions as the Green Arrow and a five-year flashback showing how Queen became the Emerald Archer. With season give wrapping in just a few months, many are wondering what that means for the show’s flashback storyline, since the flashbacks will soon synch up with where the series began.

In a chat with Entertainment Weekly, series star Stephen Amell discussed the possible future of the series’ flashbacks, indicating that he’d be open to doing flash-forwards.

“I am open and excited about any possible idea, whether that’s a simple flash-forward narrative that we carry through the season, which I think we did to varying degrees of success in season 4,” said Amell. “If that means that simply the flashbacks do not exist anymore and it allows us to expand the universe in terms of focusing more on other people’s backstories, not even necessarily flashbacks of people’s home life, just their life outside of the Arrow cave, I think that’s interesting. We can do that because, quite simply, we have more time, we have more pages, we have more chance for dialogue. I know they’re kicking around some ideas, but truthfully I have no earthly idea if there is any sort of element that we will be bringing into season 6 or if we just simply acknowledge that we pitched the show as a five-year origin story and we got to do it, which I think in and of itself is an accomplishment. There’s not a ton left on television from new shows from 2012. Just the fact that we made it that far is worth patting ourselves on the back for, ever so briefly.”

Amell also said that while they brains behind the scenes are planning the show’s future right now, things could always change. After all, many elements of the show, including the flashbacks, have taken sudden and unexpected turns.

“I don’t think we knew at the beginning of the season that at the end of season 2, Oliver would end up in Hong Kong. We don’t necessarily know that stuff, and that’s just the nature of episodic television in 23 episodes a year,” said Amell. “I think that the critical element, if we ever did something like a flash-forward, would be to make sure that we understood the precise beginning point and end point of that story and all the things that went into it, because I think that if we try to piecemeal it together, especially because it’s a flash-forward, that it just wouldn’t work. You know what I mean? We’d have to know the end game if we did something like that.”

Even more tellingly, Amell revealed that he has an idea for how the entire series should end. “I’ve always had a very specific idea for how the series would end. It came to me at some point during season 1, and whether it’s through a flash-forward or whatever, I just hope that we end up getting to do that.”


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- Arrow enfrentará al Alcalde Queen comntra el Vigilante Green Arrow (cbr):
Arrow enfrentará al Alcalde Queen comntra el Vigilante Green Arrow
Por Brandon Staley 22 Feb 2017


The fifth season of CW’s “Arrow” has seen the Green Arrow, aka Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), go up against some of the worst villains the show has had to offer, not the least of which being the mysterious arrow-slinging Prometheus who recently framed the hero for murder. But now Queen is running from something far less tangible: himself.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Amell spoke about the recent troubles Green Arrow has run up against, including the Star City police force putting the hero in their sights when his alter-ego, Queen, is the city’s mayor. As it turns out, that duality of roles and Queen’s past coming back to haunt him play a major role in the remainder of the season.

“Well, it’s interesting what we have coming up,” Amell teased. “Oliver gets put into a situation where we’re effectively vilifying the Green Arrow with a lot of things that I’m not entirely sure that we can unpack, in terms of what people are accusing him of, what the mayor’s backing up and saying he did, because he doesn’t have a choice, and it’s a lot for Oliver to deal with as mayor. We actually get to focus on the task of governing Star City, and I’ve really been enjoying it. We’ve actually had multiple episodes where in one episode I’m simply not in the Arrow suit and then multiple episodes where I’m in it for a very, very short period of time, which is a departure for us.

“A lot of things that we’re doing this year feel like a departure for us, and I know that that has created certain elements of angst in the fan base,” Amell continued. “People like certain things, but you just have to do it. You have to constantly try new things as a television show.”

While there’s no doubt that Queen would like to keep his governmental and vigilante personas separate, that time might be rapidly coming to an end. The series has been renewed for a sixth season, but the situation with Prometheus, recently revealed to be the son of a criminal Green Arrow targeted in the show’s first season, and Queen’s problems with authority look to be making good on the show’s original five-year plan, even in the face of more to come.


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- ARROW | 5.15 "Fighting Fire with Fire" Promo:

- ARROW | 5.15 "Fighting Fire with Fire" Extended Promo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9FWky5wGw


- ARROW | 5.15 "Fighting Fire with Fire" Inside the episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjblmJIgAs



- ARROW | 5.15 "Fighting Fire with Fire" Clip #1:

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- Revelados título y créditos del 5.19:
El productor Marc Guggenheim ha desvelado en su cuenta de twitter el título y créditos del episodio 5.19, que empieza su producción:

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El episodio 5.19 tiene por título "Dangerous Liasons". Está escrito por Speed Weed y Elizabeth Kim, y dirigido por Joel Novoa.


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- Descripción oficial del 5.16 "Checkmate":
5.16 "Checkmate" (15/03/17): OLIVER BUSCA LA VERDAD — Oliver (Stephen Amell) se acerca más a la verdad sobre Prometheus. Mientras tanto, Helix rehúsa continuar ayudando a Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) hasta que ella les haga un favor. Ken Shane dirige el episodio escrito por Beth Schwartz & Sarah Tarkoff (#516).


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- La CW busca hacer un verdadero crossover de superhéroes a cuatro bandas la próxima temporada:
Si pensábais que el crossover de este año entre Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, y Supergirl fue épico, esperad hasta que veáis lo que tienen planeado los productores para la próxima temporada.

En el de este año, muchos fans se quejaron porque el mismo no tuvo lugar propiamente en las cuatro series, ya que en "Supergirl" apenas vimos un epílogo de lo que iba a ocurrir en las otras tres series. Sin embargo, los productores ya están trabajando duro para poder rectificar eso la próxima temporada:

“El próximo año, esperamos hacer un verdadero crossover a cuatro bandas”, dice el productor ejecutivo Andrew Kreisberg. “Lo genial sobre nuestros queridos amigos de la CW y de Mark Pedowitz renovando las series tan temprano como lo hicieron, es que nos permitieron empezar a construir los calendarios para la próxima temporada.”

“Una de las grandes cosas que hemos aprendido desde hace dos años, y que hizo que los crossover de este año fueran u poquito más fáciles de hacer, fue el hacerlos en días en los que las series no se estaban rodando. El factor más complicado al hacer los crossovers es la disponibilidad de los actores porque las series siguen haciéndose. Básicamente tienes que jugar con los calendarios de cuatro series.”

“Lo que realmente no planeamos — porque no estábamos al tanto de que íbamos a cambiar a Supergirl de la CBS a la CW y que íbamos a ser parte realmente de esto — hizo que fuera la única serie que realmente no habíamos construído en días de no rodaje, y que las otras sí. Melissa [Benoist] terminó estando mucho en Flash y luego en Arrow, así es que Supergirl fue la que necesitaba dejar de rodarse más y fue de la que no teníamos oportunidad de hacerlo. Ahora que nos han renovado tan pronto y que hemos empezado a diseñar las temporadas, estamos construyéndolos en esos días sin rodaje, y hay más días sin rodaje en Supergirl que en las otras series, para hacerlo un poco más fácil.”

Así es que, aunque aún no está confirmado oficialmente, podemos esperar a un gran crossover de las cuatro series la próxima temporada.


Los productores también han hablado sobre el poder ver cameos de los dobles de otros universos alternativos de los personajes, pero “el problema con eso es que si lo hacemos una vez, vamos a abrir las compuertas a la locura,” dice Kreisberg, añadiendo que tendría que haber “una historia realmente bueba” para tales apariciones.


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- Stephen Amell comenta la idea del romance de Dinah-Oliver (EW):
Stephen Amell comenta la idea del romance de Dinah-Oliver
Por Natalie Abrams 28 Feb, 2017 at 3:15pm EST


In the wake of Arrow introducing a new version of the Black Canary, will The CW’s superseries follow in the footsteps of the comics and pair Black Canary with the Green Arrow?

After the shocking death of Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), some fans of the comics were disheartened by the fact that Oliver (Stephen Amell) would not end up with the Black Canary — in the comics, Oliver married Dinah Laurel Lance, the character portrayed by Cassidy on Arrow. That all changed when Juliana Harkavy was added to the cast as Dinah Drake, otherwise known in the comics as the first Black Canary. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a Green Arrow-Black Canary romance, especially considering the show has never been beholden to the comics.

“The idea that Oliver would end up with the Black Canary being Katie Cassidy or any new iteration thereof? To me, it could happen, it could not, but it’s certainly not destined to happen or predesigned to happen,” Amell tells EW.

As for his reasoning, Amell harkens back to 2011, when Arrow was being developed. “Green Arrow was conceived as a show without superpowers and a show that was meant to be a little more grounded that was a specific reaction to an incredibly successful 10-year run of Smallville,” Amell says, quick to point out that if the show didn’t stray from the source material, viewers would’ve missed out on several now-beloved characters. “There have been feuding factions in the fan base — people that call upon the comics and people that have lived in the universe of the show,” Amell says. “I would say that we try to find a happy medium for both, try to live in the universe that the show has created where characters that weren’t a part of the Green Arrow mythos have become completely indispensable.”

“There are elements that you find in a TV show that make the show what they are,” Amell continues, “and that became Oliver’s relationship between Felicity [Emily Bett Rickards] and Diggle [David Ramsey] — one character that’s completely original in terms of John Diggle, an ode to Andy Diggle, who wrote Year One, and Felicity Smoak, who was plucked from the far reaches of the DC universe. Thea Queen [Willa Holland] also does not exist in the comics and I think that’s all stuff that’s important to remember.” (Amell shares his thoughts on Olicity’s future here.)

Over the course of five seasons, Arrow has also worked very closely with DC to stay true to the spirit of the comics. “We’ve always consistently had the creative team behind DC as a partner, and they sign off on stuff for us and they give us chances with characters like Barry Allen, who was introduced through our show before he went on to head his own show, and they do that because they have faith in us,” Amell says. “If they thought that we were destroying their comics’ mythos, I’m pretty sure they would have said something by now.”

Plus, Amell says, it’s not bad to stray from the beaten path, as we saw with HBO’s Game of Thrones last season. “If you want to talk about Game of Thrones now existing beyond the realm of the books, that was one of my favorite seasons of television ever,” Amell says. “I think that it would be a pretty two-dimensional world if you simply followed with what the comic said.”

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.


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- Lexa Doig explica lo que hace a Talia al Ghul una verdadera mujer de armas tomar (cbr):
Lexa Doig explica lo que hace a Talia al Ghul una verdadera mujer de armas tomar
Por Bryan Cairns 01 Marzo 2017


Considering Oliver Queen’s previous encounters with Ra’s al Ghul and Nyssa, it was probably only a matter of time before his other daughter, Talia, entered the “Arrow” picture.

A lethal assassin in her own right, in DC Comics’ lore, Talia has been an ally, a lover and an enemy to Batman. As there is no Batman in the Arrowvrse, this Talia instead finds herself involved with Green arrow. This season, it’s been revealed that she was the one who rescued Oliver from Ishmael Gregor and then proceeded to push him into fulfilling his destiny. Talia has trained Oliver, but she’s also an al Ghul. Can she be trusted? Does the apple fall far from the psychotic family tree?

Doig recently spoke with CBR about making Talia a badass, mentoring Oliver, her possible connections to Prometheus and the inevitable showdown with Nyssa.

CBR: Obviously, “Arrow’s” writers didn’t simply want to recycle what had been done with Ra’s al Ghul or Nyssa. How is Talia different than her father and half-sister?

Lexa Doig: It’s hard to say. This is my interpretation of it: Talia left the League of Assassins and forged her own way in the world, and her way is more in the real world as opposed to influencing events from the periphery. She may have a more direct hand, yet she’s very Talia al Ghul in that mentality of, “Why do it myself when I can get someone else to do it for me?” She is still someone who is a bit of a chess master. That would be my interpretation. All of my stuff has been with Stephen Amell, and it’s all been the flashback training. There hasn’t really been a reference for me of how she operates outside of that context.

In Talia’s first appearance, she disposed of Oliver’s assailants and rescued him. What did you enjoy about what that said about Talia?

The funny thing that I enjoyed about that introduction, from a completely technical perspective, is that it was one shot. That was the only thing I did the entire episode, but what a cool entrance. What it said was how badass the character is, taking out all those guys without batting an eyelash, and just stepping in with this mysterious, “Where have you been? I’ve been looking for you.”

Genre fans know you from “Jason X,” “Andromeda,” “Stargate SG-1,” and “Continuum.” What’s it been like joining the DC Universe?

It’s been so much fun. My ultimate goal – and I really want this, so I am putting it out in the universe – is I want Talia to have a Funko Pop! character. In my mind, I will have arrived if I can bring home a Funko Pop! character, a little figurine, and show it to my kids and say, “See. Mommy is cool.”

What did you make of Talia’s costume? Did it help you get into character?

What I love about the costume is how badass it makes me look. What made me laugh about the costume is the logistics of being in a superhero costume. They don’t tell you the quirks. For example, the quiver that goes in the back is often like a cone that your cat wears when he comes home from the vet. You’re not aware of it, you go to walk through a doorway, you slam your quiver into the side and you get stuck. Or the hood, when it’s up. My hood has to have a certain thickness. It’s made out of leather, so it stands up and looks nice, but then you have no peripheral vision and you can’t hear anything.

Then, there are these amazing side harnesses they have for me and they squeak a bit when I walk. The thing that I found funny about my very first day on set was walking around and looking so incredibly badass, but sounding like [makes squeaking noises]. As I walk, I’m bumping into things. I can’t hear what anybody says. I can’t see anything. It was just funny. Those are the hilarious things you discover about playing a badass, and how awkward it is. I have such respect for everyone on the show who has to wear these incredible costumes and stand there, looking badass and fighting and doing all the cool stuff. You have to overcome this hurdle of [squeaking sounds] and catching your cape on the back of your quiver.

When she arrives, Oliver was a lost soul. What does Talia see in him?

I think she saw potential. Oliver is somebody who is savage. He’s incredibly adept at what he wants to accomplish, but is a little directionless. He is on the side of good in those circumstances. It’s a bit murky and gray in the question of how he’s going to accomplish his goals, though. I don’t think that moral gray area is a difficult place for Talia to inhabit. She’s quite comfortable living there herself. What she saw in Oliver is the fact that he’s an incredible killer, and he’s doing it for the right reasons. She’s trying to point him in the right direction of what he really wants to accomplish.

Do you consider Talia a hero, wanting to make the city a better place out of the goodness of her heart? Does Oliver serve her agenda?

He sort of serves her agenda. I used to play Dungeons & Dragons when I was younger, and Talia strikes me as someone who is neutral in that it’s a balance, but maybe adding into that a little bit on the chaotic evil side. She has things she wants to accomplish, and she’s going to accomplish them by any means necessary. If it turns out to have positive ramifications and be a good thing, then “Yay” for everybody. If it doesn’t, it sucks to be anybody but her.

She’s described as “an elite warrior.” Where do you feel she ranks among the other League of Assassin members and Oliver?

Right up there. After a certain point, when you’re that good, it’s a matter of substance. Anybody can accomplish the things they need to accomplish. It’s just a matter of how they go about doing it. When you compare all the various superheroes and supervillains – and you have these wonderful theoretical discussions of who would win between Nyssa and Talia – it largely ends up being a draw. Or, when you get two really good hockey teams playing against each other, sometimes it just goes your way, and sometimes it doesn’t. I think they’re all elite.

Audiences have only gotten a taste of what Talia is capable of. Are we going to see more of her fighting prowess?

A little bit. I had a really great stunt double. I didn’t do a ton of it. You do see a little bit of it, but not a ton. The storyline really isn’t about how badass she is. It’s more about Talia helping Oliver find himself and find the Hood. Again, what seperates Talia from Nyssa and Ra’s is her ability to operate in the real world, the not-so-secret world. As accomplished as she is as a fighter, some of Talia’s strengths may lie in her intellect and her ability to read or manipulate a situation and play the long game. She’s someone who knows things and has the patience to play the long game.

So far, the series has only scratched the surface between Talia and Oliver. What can you tease about how that relationship unfolds?

She does what she set out to do. She very rarely doesn’t succeed at what she wants to accomplish. At this point, what she wants to accomplish is to help Oliver make peace with the savage side of himself and find a way to partition that into a place where he feels very comfortable with his alter-ego, whether the alter-ego is Arrow or Oliver Queen. That’s for him to decide, but it’s for whatever part of him that needs to exist in the real, above-ground, legit world versus the one that exists in the shadows. I do believe she actually accomplishes her goals.

Will viewers eventually get to see Talia in present day?

I don’t know. I will plead the fifth. I will say that Oliver seems to think that some of her interactions from the past may leave echoes in the present day. I can’t tell you whether it’s correct or not, but he does have that theory.

Fans have speculated that Talia shares ties with Prometheus. Have you come across those presumptions? What are your thoughts on that possibility?

I have no idea who Prometheus is. I only ever work with Stephen because of the nature of the flashbacks. It’s funny, because even on the call sheets, when you are shooting scenes that have Prometheus in them, he’s not technically listed on the call sheet. The character is listed, but no performer or actor is listed as Prometheus. Even I, who works on the show, have no idea who Prometheus is. So, if Talia has connections to Prometheus, I don’t know about it.

Katrina Law has told me she would love for Nyssa and Talia to square off. How would you like to see their dynamic play out?

I would love that. Here’s my problem. My instinct is to always go for funny and comedy. It doesn’t always play well in the comic book world, because everything is always very high stakes, which is also fun. I think it would be hilarious if the two of them didn’t get along, but in a very modern-day, sibling kind of way. Maybe they butt heads, but it’s over somebody taking too much time in the bathroom. That would be hilarious, although the fight scene would look pretty badass. It would be a killer fight sequence. I’m also a family sap at heart, so I’d also love to see Talia and Nyssa fighting on the same side – and arguing with each other at the same time.



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- Wendy Mericle revela las fascinantes inspiraciones de Prometheus (screenertv):
Wendy Mericle revela las fascinantes inspiraciones de Prometheus
Por Chris E. Hayner 25 Feb, 2017


Throughout Season 5 of "Arrow," the mysterious Prometheus has made life miserable for Oliver (Stephen Amell) and his team. While the true identity of Prometheus remains a secret he guards closely, his tactics couldn't be anymore clear.

This is someone who thrives on manipulating and tormenting his target -- in this case the Green Arrow -- to the point of madness. It was in the midseason finale that his games led to Oliver killing Felicity's (Emily Bett Rickards) boyfriend, which is something the whole team will have to live with forever.

It's these mental games that makes Prometheus stand out -- and for executive producer Wendy Mericle, that's a big part of the reason why the character is so important to the show and why their Prometheus is a complete departure from the villain of the same name in the comics.

"Part of the fun of that is that you can draw on other sources of inspiration," she told us during a group interview -- and while those inspirations may come as a surprise, looking back on the story so far, you can see the fingerprints of a number of notorious movie villains.

"One of the things we talked a lot about was 'American Psycho,'" Mericle recalls. "We talked about who are the big manipulators? People like Hannibal Lecter and Kevin Spacey's character in 'The Usual Suspects' and also in 'Seven.' We talked a lot about those types of villains, and how to bring that element into the series -- because we were looking for something different to do in Season 5, a way to change it up and make it different."

The fact that "Arrow" can still strive to be different in that way, especially when getting back to its roots after a mysticism-infused Season 4, is remarkable. If you look back on Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), the fight he brought to Team Arrow was so vicious and over-the-top that it was hard to think of anyone matching that intensity again. In creating someone as personal and manipulative as Prometheus though, they've done just that.

His fight isn't about domination or grasping at power. It's about tormenting Oliver until he reaches his very breaking point. That's a scary foe to be up against.

"Arrow" airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.


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- Wendy Mericle habla sobre la identidad y motivaciones de Prometheus (CBR):
Wendy Mericle habla sobre la identidad y motivaciones de Prometheus
Por Meagan Damore 01/03/17


SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for “Fighting Fire With Fire,” the latest episode of “Arrow.”

The jig is up! The news is out! District Attorney Adrian Chase has just been revealed as Prometheus. In “Fighting Fire With Fire,” the latest episode of “Arrow,” Prometheus unmasked himself on screen, only to reveal Chase underneath.

In the wake of this stunning reveal, executive producer Wendy Mericle spoke to CBR and other reporters about what’s in store for Team Arrow now that Prometheus’ identity is out in the open. She addressed why she and the other showrunners made Chase Prometheus instead of Vigilante, why those chose now to make this reveal, what drives Chase to torture Oliver Queen and more.

Why make Chase Prometheus instead of Vigilante?

I think one of the reasons we did that was because everyone would be thinking, “Of course he’s Vigilante!” Adrian Chase is Vigilante in the comic books, as you pointed out, and we thought it would be a really fun sort of twist to do what we’ve always done on the show, which is to take the comic book mythology and turn it on its head and see what kind of story we could mine from a surprise like that. It was also just something different for this season. We wanted to change up how we introduced the big bad and change up when we did it and how we did it. Hopefully, we succeeded in that this year.
Prometheus

Why did you choose now to reveal Prometheus’ identity?

It’s sort of a two-part answer. One, we always knew that Adrian Chase — and Josh Segarra playing him — was our big bad. We always knew — from the beginning and our very first discussions, which began about a year ago — that’s what we wanted him to be and that’s how we wanted to build it. I think, in terms of the timing of this specific episode, we had to play around with that a little bit more. There are certain moments in the season where you obviously want to build to. We could have done it in [season] 5 [episode] 9, we could have done it a little later in [season] 5 [episode] 18, but I think as much as possible we try to let the stories dictate where these big reveals happen, and it just felt right here and it felt right also to do it in the middle of an episode. That, also, I think played against expectations in a good way.

When will Team Arrow find out about Prometheus? What will their reaction be like?

I think that’s half the fun of it! In the look back, when Oliver and the team do find out, which will happen later in the season — obviously it will happen sometime after this episode and before the finale — but I think one of the fun parts about what we’ve done is to really allow us to live with that reveal for a while and seeing the characters not knowing what their lives are like, still continuing to interact with Adrian Chase in City Hall and elsewhere without knowing his real identity. We really liked the idea in the story, and we’re going to play with that for a little while before we let Oliver and the team find out.

Will Oliver throwing Chase under the bus for the cover up change the way they interact at City Hall?

I think, in [season] 5 [episode] 14, we see him basically acknowledging that he and Adrian colluded, but I think what’s interesting about that episode is that — ultimately — Oliver doesn’t throw Adrian under the bus. He takes it on the chin and he throws the Green Arrow under the bus. One of the things we liked about what we built and again just in the look back is that Adrian is on his side, and the bond between them has grown really strong. Even though he does admit and sort of out Adrian as being responsible in [season] 5 [episode] 14, and with respect to everything that had gone on with the evidence about Detective Malone’s death and whatnot, ultimately the bond between them is really strong, which we will hope will create a much bigger impact on Oliver when he finds out down the road, who Adrian really is and that this is the guy that’s been really messing with him all season.

Was Lance ever considered for Prometheus?

We wanted to go back to Season 1. We wanted someone with the roots of Oliver’s mission and the consequences of everything he’s done. Absolutely, we had that in mind that Prometheus would come back and he would start to mess with the people closest to Oliver. You know, the focus, I think, after that episode with Lance really became much more specific to Oliver himself, but — as we move through the season, and you’ll see as we head towards the finale — that Prometheus and Chase are going to go after (he’s obviously focused on Oliver) but he’s also going to be focused, like we said with Lance, on some of the people he loves the most as well.

Will we gain any new sympathy for Prometheus now that we know who he is?

I hope so! I mean, our plan always is that we want… everyone to look back and go, “Oh my gosh! There were little hints here along the way!” On the show, historically, we’ve always striven to have the villain be the hero of their own story and to really get underneath the reasons why they are what they are and they do what they do. Adrian Chase is no exception. We’ll get a lot more sense going forward of why he’s become so evil, why he’s so bent on revenge. The thing that’s the most interesting about it for us is just how close those parallels are with Oliver’s own story, and we really did want to this season build a villain that would be a dark mirror for Oliver in the tradition of the comic books and really honoring that and also honoring Oliver’s past on the show and — like I said — specifically the first season, seeing what it was like going through the loss… they both suffered losses, and they both answer those losses in very different ways.

Are we going to see any flashbacks to Adrian’s origin?

We don’t have any… not in that specific a format, in terms of the flashbacks. We’ve not been using them to the same extent that we have in previous seasons, and I think we’re going to get that story and get that understanding actually in the present day story. We did toy with that, because it’s a really great story idea, it’s something we definitely thought about, but we ultimately felt that we could get what we needed to get out of his character and an understanding of his character in the present day story, specifically with his interactions with Oliver.

Can you preview what will happen after Prometheus kidnaps Susan?

We really wanted to build him up as someone who is really good at being ten steps ahead of Oliver, really being psychological in the way that he manipulates him and one of the ways he does that is by going after the people that Oliver cares about. We’ve seen villains do that in the past, but this year Adrian does it in a way that’s a little bit more specific. Not to take any wind out of the sails of the story, but his goal is very clear. He really has no drive to kill Oliver. It’s purely based on torture. In taking Susan, he rightfully gets that. That is where we’re headed. For how long, I can’t tell you, but it’s all part and parcel of this drive to break Oliver down psychologically as opposed to physically, which we’ve seen Slade and Merlyn and everybody else do — take him on hand-to-hand. This is much more of a mental game.

What was Chase’s motivation for saving Dig?

There is more to the storyline, in the sense that — as we move toward the finale — the fact that he did that and that he did it… it was a way for him to get closer to Oliver. Again, like I was just saying, this is part of his psychological torture of Oliver. The further he gets into Oliver’s head, the closer he gets to gaining his confidence and gaining his trust and, obviously, one of the ways to do that is by gaining the trust and confidence of people that Oliver cares about. So it was definitely part of his long term game, and those chickens will definitely come home to roost by the end of the season.

What are the advantages of creating an original villain? What are the challenges?

In the past, we’ve taken characters from the comic books, and Damien Darhk is a good example of somebody who is well known in the comic books, and we took and made — you know, Neal McDonough does not in any way resemble the character that we found in the comic books. So I think we’ve always sort of built them from the ground up in some ways, but — by the same token — we weren’t going straight for the Prometheus character that’s in the comic books. I mean, Adrian Chase obviously doesn’t resemble that character in any way, so part of the fun of that is that you can draw on other sources of inspiration.

One of the things we talked a lot about was “American Psycho.” We talked about who are the big manipulators like Hannibal Lecter and Kevin Spacey’s character in “The Usual Suspects” and also in “Se7en.” We talk about those types of villains and how to bring that type of element into the series, because we were looking for something different to do in Season 5, a way to change it up and make it different… You know, the comic book characters are great, and they usually do end up in sort of a physical duel, but we really want this to be different and have Adrian Chase and Prometheus be somebody manipulating and torturing Oliver more psychologically than anything else.


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- Showrunner y actor de Prometheus explican la revelación del villano de la Season 5 (IGN):
Showrunner y actor de Prometheus explican la revelación del villano de la Season 5
Por Terri Schwartz 01/03/17


Arrow finally revealed who the person behind the mask of its Season 5 Big Bad is, and the real identity of Prometheus might have been a surprise for many people. To weigh in on what the reveal means for the show and its main characters going forward, we spoke with showrunner Wendy Mericle and the actor who we didn't realize was playing Prometheus the whole time.

Full spoilers for Arrow continue below, so read on at your own risk. Make sure to read our review of "Fighting Fire with Fire."

And Prometheus is... Adrian Chase. You thought he would really be Vigilante? You thought wrong. It doesn't seem as though he is Vigilante as well, according to showrunner Wendy Mericle, and that's why they wanted him specifically as Prometheus.

"One of the reasons we did do it was because everybody would be thinking, 'Of course he's going to be Vigilante," she told reporters in a recent interview. "We thought it would be a really fun twist to do what we've always done on the show which is to take the comic book mythology and turn it on its head and see what kind of story we can mine from a surprise like that. It was also something different for this season. We wanted to change up how we introduced the big bad and change up when we did it, how we did it, and hopefully we succeeded in that this year."

Josh Segarra also fell into the trap of thinking he'd be playing Vigilante. Though the executive producers on the show described his character as the Big Bad of the season, once he found out he'd be playing Adrian Chase, he initially figured he'd be playing Chase's comic book alter ego. Segarra found out the hard way when he got to set to start filming that he'd actually be playing the season's villain.

"They announced Adrian Chase, Vigilante. And I'm like 'oh my gosh! I'm playing Vigilante!' So now, I get to Vancouver and I think I'm playing this guy Vigilante because that's who everybody thought, right? I started reading Vigilante comics, and I'm reading about Chase, and reading all about the history of these guys, and I get to work and I'm talking to Marc and I'm like 'Marc! I'm really doing my research! I'm really being studious about the Vigilante guy' and he's like 'What do you mean?'" Segarra recalled. "I'm like, 'Oh, dude, you know. We announced it, finally! So I'm going to be a great Adrian Chase - Vigilante.' He was like, 'That's not who you're playing.'"

Though the audience now knows Chase is Prometheus, Oliver and Team Arrow are still in the dark. Mericle explained that the Prometheus reveal came relatively late in the season because they wanted to build up Chase's relationship with Oliver before pulling the rug out from under the audience. Arrow will explain Chase's motivations and backstory in the coming episodes, leading up to the inevitable reveal of his identity to the rest of the characters on the show.

"We're not going to leave it to the end of the season," said Segarra. "We're going to get to watch it all stir, and we're going to get to watch the pot get stirred a little bit. It's hard because I already know how he reacts, and I love the way it goes. You're going to see Chase just kind of trying to burn the world around him. We've seen the reluctance [in] him to kill [Oliver]. I never want to kill him. It's just to make sure that we can make him stir a little bit, make him uncomfortable. So I think that's where it's going. Once they do find out, it's how then to continue with my mission."

"I think one of the fun parts about what we’ve done is to really allow us to live with that reveal for a while and seeing the characters not knowing what their lives are like, still continuing to interact with Adrian Chase in City Hall and elsewhere without knowing his real identity," noted Mericle. "We really like the idea of doing that in story, and we’re going to play around with that for a little while before we let Oliver and the team find out."

His supposed kidnapping of Oliver's ex Susan Williams is yet another development in his plan to torture and torment the mayor of Star City. Though Segarra and Mericle wouldn't say how long Susan would be in Prometheus's custody, they did tease how this latest development in Chase's "mental game" will play out.

"He's moving pieces that he knows Oliver's not going to be able to catch up with and I think that Susan is a very, very important piece of that puzzle," said Segarra. "Susan is a very, very important piece and a very good move in the big chess game that's going on. And then to get to see that relationship, how it develops between the two, because ... Susan may feel betrayed by Oliver, so it's interesting to see how Chase will try to let's say navigate those waters, how he can get to his next move."


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- Estrella de 'Arrow' y productora ejecutiva hablan sobre la sorprendente revelación de Prometheus y la 'tortura psicológica' que viene para Oliver (etonline):
Estrella de 'Arrow' y productora ejecutiva hablan sobre la sorprendente revelación de Prometheus y la 'tortura psicológica' que viene para Oliver
Por Meredith B. Kile 6:00 PM PST, 01/03/17


Warning: Spoiler alert! Do not proceed if you haven’t watched this week’s Arrow! If you know Prometheus’ true identity, carry on.

Arrow’s season five big bad was finally unmasked on Wednesday’s episode, revealing the villainous Prometheus to be none other than Star City District Attorney Adrian Chase!

The no-nonsense DA had seemed to be one of Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) closest allies as mayor, but after a battle with another Arrow unknown, Vigilante, Chase (Josh Segarra) removed his Prometheus mask to reveal his true identity as the cold-blooded killer whose only goal is to ruin Oliver’s life after suffering a loss at the hands of his season one persona, The Hood.

“We really did want to, this season, build a villain that would be a dark mirror for Oliver, in the tradition of the comic books,” Arrow EP Wendy Mericle explained on a conference call with reporters last week. “Really honoring that and also honoring Oliver’s path on the show, and specifically, the first season. They’ve both suffered losses and they both answer those losses in very different ways.”

At the moment, Team Arrow believes Prometheus to be the illegitimate son of Justin Claybourne, a pharmaceutical CEO who was on The Hood’s infamous “list” of targets back in season one. But Mericle explained there’s even more to the character than meets the eye.

“On this show, historically, we’ve always striven to have the villain be the hero of their own story and really kind of get underneath the reasons why they are what they are and they do what they do,” she said. “Adrian Chase is no exception. We will get a lot more sense going forward as to why he has become so evil, why he’s so bent on revenge. The thing that’s the most interesting about it for us is just how close the parallels are with Oliver’s own story.”

Segarra also spoke to reporters about portraying the dual role, a hard-nosed litigator by day and a vengeance-hungry villain by night.

“I wanted to track this guy. You can’t come out the gate as Adrian Chase as this like, pissed-off killer, this tortured soul,” he explained. “I wanted to start somewhere, so with Chase, there was that part that you had to show him getting close to Oliver. You had to show why they trusted each other, and you want to make sure you do that within the confines that you’re given… I needed to know Oliver better than he knows himself.”

“You always want to find the good in them. You want to find what made that person,” he added of his complex character. “Because bad people don’t think that they’re bad, there’s a justification behind that.”

Part of Prometheus’ long game was earning Oliver’s trust as an ally in City Hall. Viewers watched Chase team up with Star City’s embattled mayor in last week’s episode to collude and cover for the Green Arrow as the Anti-Crime Unit investigated Detective Malone’s death -- and he even helped save John Diggle (David Ramsey), Oliver’s right-hand man, earlier in the season.

“This is part of his psychological torture of Oliver,” Mericle explained. “The further he gets into Oliver’s head, the closer he gets to gaining his confidence and gaining his trust. Obviously one of the ways to do that is by gaining the trust and confidence of the people that Oliver cares about. It was definitely part of his long-term game, and those chickens will definitely come home to roost by the end of the season.”

“Oliver does let him in, you know? And Oliver doesn’t let many people in,” Segarra added. “You have to show why he earns Oliver's respect… Now, you’re going to get to see it turn. This whole time, I’ve been waiting to kind of pop that top off.”

But, while Arrow fans now know that Chase and Prometheus are one in the same, it will be some time before Team Arrow comes to the same realization.

“We’re gonna watch the pot get stirred a little bit,” Segarra hinted. “You’re gonna see Chase just kind of trying to burn the world around him. I think we’ve seen the reluctance to kill [Oliver], I never want to kill him. It’s just to make sure that he can make him stir a little bit, make him uncomfortable… Once they do find out, it’s how then to continue with my mission.”

“I think one of the fun parts about what we’ve done is to really allow us to live with that reveal for a while and live with seeing the characters not knowing what their lives are like and still continuing to interact with Adrian Chase at City Hall and elsewhere without knowing his real identity,” Mericle added. “We really liked the idea of doing that story, and we're gonna play around with that for a little while before we let Oliver and the team find out.”

Mericle also gave some insight as to why Arrow producers decided to reveal Segarra’s Adrian Chase as Prometheus, rather than Vigilante, as many fans predicted due to the character’s arc in the DC Comics universe.

“I think one of the reasons we did do it was because everyone would be thinking, ‘Of course he’s going to be Vigilante,’” she admitted. “We thought it would be a really fun twist to do what we’ve always done on the show, which is to take the comic book mythology and turn it on its head and see what kind of story we could mine from a surprise like that.”

Part of the fun of creating a non-canonical villain, Mericle explained, was being able to draw on other inspirations for the season’s big bad.

“One of the things we talked a lot about was American Psycho. We talked about the big manipulators, people like Hannibal Lecter and Kevin Spacey’s character in The Usual Suspects, and also [the villain] in Seven,” she recounted. “We talked about those type of villains and how to bring that type of element into the series, because we were looking for something different to do in season five, a way to change it up and make it different.”

Even Segarra himself was surprised by the bait-and-switch, admitting that he had talked to producers about the show’s history of big bads -- and even the character of Prometheus -- but had no idea what he was in for until he arrived in Vancouver to begin filming.

“They announce Adrian Chase… and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m playing Vigilante!’” he said with a laugh. “I start reading Vigilante comics and I’m reading about Chase and the history of these guys, and I get to work and I’m talking to Marc [Guggenheim, Arrow executive producer] and I’m like, ‘Marc, I’m really doing my research, I’m really being studious about this Vigilante guy.’ And he’s like, ‘What do you mean?... That’s not who you’re playing. You’re playing this other guy.’”

After that, Segarra recalled, he got his first look at the Prometheus suit, which is when the character began to come together for him.

“I’d seen the Arrow [suit] for a couple years now, so it was a very cool feeling to know that there were images of that in it,” he recalled. “Because that’s what I wanted for the character to be, I wanted to be that counterpart...The first time I put that suit on, it told me a lot about who Prometheus was.”

“Behind that mask, I am screaming my face off sometimes, and I am just living out every supervillain dream that I’ve ever had,” he added with a laugh. “I’m putting it into that costume.”

As the show moves towards the season five finale -- and Oliver’s ultimate showdown with Prometheus -- Mericle and Segarra explained that both the masked villain and his plainclothes counterpart will continue working to destroy the Star City hero by targeting those closest to him.

“We really wanted to build [Prometheus] up as someone who is really good at being 10 steps ahead of Oliver, really being psychological in the way that he manipulates him and one of the ways he does that is by going after the people that Oliver cares about,” Mericle reiterated. “He really has no drive to kill Oliver, it’s purely based on torture.”

The next step in that plan, as viewers saw at the end of Wednesday’s episode, involves kidnapping Oliver’s estranged girlfriend, Susan Williams (Carly Pope), whose feelings of betrayal may align her more closely with the villainous vigilante than anyone expected.

“In taking Susan… it’s all part and parcel of this drive to break Oliver down psychologically, as opposed to physically,” Mericle explained. “We’ve seen Slade and Merlyn take him on hand-to-hand, this is much more of a mental game.”

“It’s the chess match,” Segarra added. “That’s what Chase has been playing this whole time, he’s moving pieces that he knows Oliver’s not going to be able to catch up with. And I think that Susan is a very, very important piece of that puzzle. Chase knows that. And I think that there are other very important pieces of the puzzle, other pieces on that chess board, that he’s gonna move.”

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.


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- Incluso el actor no se dio cuenta de que estaban haciendo a Prometheus al prinicpio (comicbook):
Incluso el actor no se dio cuenta de que estaban haciendo a Prometheus al prinicpio
Por Jenna Anderson - 01/03/2017


MAJOR spoilers for tonight's episode of Arrow!

Tonight's episode of Arrow, 'Fighting Fire With Fire', was explosive for a myriad of reasons. The biggest of which, of course, is that the season's Big Bad, Prometheus, has finally been unmasked...

...as Star City District Attorney, Adrian Chase.

While some fans have suggested this twist in the months since both Prometheus and Chase were introduced on the show, the reveal came as a shock to a large number of fans. Many even went so far to assure that it's a misdirect, particularly due to the reveal occurring in the middle of the episode.

According to Josh Segarra, who plays Chase, the twist is very much real - even though it actually surprised him too at first.

Earlier today, Segarra told us the story of how a phone call with executive produers Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle led to him learning he was playing the season's big bad, even though it wasn't in a way that he had initially thought.

"They start talking to me about this character, and that 'there's a history of Big Bads on our show.' I had watched the show a little bit before, and I love Neal McDonough, so I watched a lot of Damien Darhk actually.

They started describing [my character], like 'You're going to be the Big Bad of the season and you're going to play this guy.' And they described Prometheus to me. So I'm like 'Man, okay. This is going to be pretty exciting! I'm going to go, and I'll get to train, and put different skill sets to use.' But it was just a casual conversation of them, just kind of, honestly introducing me to them, and us to know each other a little bit before we signed on to work on a project for the future. That was more of what that conversation was, but they mentioned Prometheus along the way."

Segarra later went on to celebrate the role with friends and family, and when he spoke to them about the role, he didn't have many details to share. When his casting was officially announced, he was under the impression that he was in fact playing Vigilante, given the comic book origin of his character's name.

"So now, I get to Vancouver, and I think I'm playing this guy Vigilante, because that's who everybody thought, right? I started reading Vigilante comics, and I'm reading about Chase, and reading all about the history of these guys."

According to Segarra, this led to an awkward exchange between him and Guggenheim, in which he finally realized who exactly his version of Adrian Chase would be.

"I get to work and I'm talking to Marc, and I'm like 'Marc! I'm really doing my research! I'm really being studious about the Vigilante guy.'

And he's like 'What do you mean?'

I'm like 'Oh, dude, you know. We announced it, finally! So I'm going to be a great Adrian Chase/Vigilante.'

He was like 'That's not who you're playing.'"

Now that viewers have seen the reveal, it's safe to say that they can expect to see a whole new side of both Chase and Prometheus in the episodes ahead.


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- Productora ejecutiva dice que Prometheus fue inspirado por los villanos clásicos de las películas (comicbook):
Productora ejecutiva dice que Prometheus fue inspirado por los villanos clásicos de las películas
Por Jenna Anderson - 01/03/2017


Tonight's episode of Arrow - which centers around Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) facing impeachment as Star City's mayor - plays directly into the actions of this season's Big Bad, Prometheus.

While the elusive vigilante has remained a mystery for a large part of the season, executive producer Wendy Mericle says that parts of that are entirely intentional.

When Prometheus was first introduced on the show, fans realized that he wouldn't exactly share much of his comic book origin - a tactic the show has enjoyed applying to its other villains. Mericle cites one particular big bad, last season's Damien Darhk, as a similar case.

"In the past, we've taken characters from the comic books, and Damian Darhk is a good example of somebody who is well known in the comic books. Neal McDonough does not in any way resemble the characters that we saw in the comic books. So we've always sort of built them from the ground up in some ways. By the same token, we weren't going for the Prometheus character that's in the comic books..."

According to Mericle, this allowed the show's writers to use outside inspiration to shape their interpretation of Prometheus, even classic movie villains.

"Part of the fun of that is that you can draw on other sources of inspiration. One of the things we talked a lot about was American Psycho. We talked about, who are the big manipulators? People like Hannibal Lecter and Kevin Spacey's character in The Usual Suspects and also in Seven. We talked a lot about those types of villains and how to bring that element into the series."

As Mericle explained, this inspiration allowed the conflict between him and Team Arrow to be more mental than physical, something that has been seen throughout this season. As the villain explained himself, he would rather emotionally manipulate Oliver into wishing he was dead, than outright kill him himself.

"We were looking for something different to do in Season 5, a way to change it up and make it different. The comic book characters are great, and they usually do end up in sort of a physical duel. We really wanted this to be different and have Prometheus be somebody who is manipulating and torturing Oliver, more psychologically than anything else."

With this in mind, the anticipation is only growing as to how exactly Prometheus' plan will come to fruition in the remainder of this season of Arrow.


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- ¿Quién es Prometheus? Wendy Mericle & [redactado] hablan sobre la revelación (greenarrowtv):
¿Quién es Prometheus? Wendy Mericle & [redactado] hablan sobre la revelación
Por Craig Byrne 01/03/17


Warning: Spoilers for tonight’s episode of Arrow “Fighting Fire With Fire” are being discussed in this article. If you are on the West Coast or just haven’t seen the episode yet, read no further!

The secret identity of Prometheus was revealed in tonight’s episode of Arrow, and the man under the mask is … Adrian Chase? Wait, wasn’t he supposed to be Vigilante?

“One of the reasons we did do it was because everybody would be thinking ‘of course he’s going to be Vigilante’,” Executive Producer Wendy Mericle said during a press call held late last week. “Of course Adrian Chase is Vigilante in the comic books, and we thought it would be a really fun twist to do what we’ve always done on the show which is to take the comic book mythology and turn it on its head and see what kind of story we can mine from a surprise like that. It was also something different for this season. We wanted to change up how we introduced the big bad and change up when we did it, how we did it, and hopefully we succeeded in that this year.”

“We always knew that Adrian Chase — and Josh Segarra, who is playing him — was our Big Bad,” Mericle confirmed. We always knew that’s what we wanted him to be,;that’s how we wanted to build it. I think in the timing of this specific episode, we had to play around with that a little bit more. There are certain moments in the season where you obviously want to build to. We could have done it in 5×09, we could have done it even later in 5×18. But I think we try, as much as possible, we try to let the stories dictate when these big reveals happen. It just felt right here, and it just felt right also to do it in the middle of the episode, and that also, I think, played against expectations in a good way,” she said.

Team Arrow learning the Prometheus identity is something that won’t happen immediately. “When Oliver and the team do find out — which will happen later in the season, obviously it will happen somewhere after this episode and before the finale — I think one of the fun parts about what we’ve done is to really allow us to live with that reveal for a while and seeing the characters not knowing what their lives are like, still continuing to interact with Adrian Chase in City Hall and elsewhere without knowing his real identity. We really like the idea of doing that in story, and we’re going to play around with that for a little while before we let Oliver and the team find out,” Mericle said.

“I think what’s so interesting for us is how close those parallels are with Oliver’s own story,” Mericle explained about the comparison between Chase and Queen. “We really did want to this season build a villain that’s a dark mirror for Oliver, in the tradition of the comic books and honoring that. And honoring Oliver’s past on the show, especially the first season. Seeing what it was like going through the loss. They’ve both suffered losses and they’ve both answered those losses in very different ways.”


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- 'Arrow' revala la identidad de Prometheus: He aquí lo que significa (THR):
'Arrow' revela la identidad de Prometheus: He aquí lo que significa
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 01/03/17


[This story contains spoilers from Wednesday's Arrow, "Fighting Fire With Fire."]

Arrow's big bad of the season has finally been unmasked, but Oliver (Stephen Amell) still has no idea that his biggest enemy is masquerading as his ally.

The CW's superhero drama unmasked serial killer Prometheus and it's none other than District Attorney Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra), the man who befriended Oliver through their shared work in the Mayor's Office. What's more, he helped get Diggle (David Ramsey) out of jail and always stood up for what's right — at least on the outside. In reality, he was hiding his intentions and identity: as the son of a man that Oliver killed in season one when he was operating as the Hood.

In the DC Comics lore, Adrian Chase is actually Vigilante, an anti-hero who has been stirring up trouble in Star City all season long. The reveal is a shocker as Arrow showrunners opted to subvert fanboy expectations and make Adrian's secret identity Prometheus instead.

"One of the reasons we did do it was because everybody would be thinking, 'Of course he's going to be Vigilante,'" executive producer Wendy Mericle told reporters, including THR, during a recent conference call. "We thought it would be a really fun twist to do what we've always done on the show, which is to take the comic book mythology and turn it on its head and see what kind of story we can mine from a surprise like that. It was also something different for this season. We wanted to change up how we introduced the big bad and change up when we did it."

Unlike last season's grave mystery, where the writers didn't know who they'd be killing off after introducing that storyline in the premiere, the showrunners planned for Adrian to be Prometheus from the beginning.

"We always knew that Adrian was our big bad," Mericle said. "We always knew in our very first discussions, which were started about a year ago. ... We wanted to go back to season one and explore the roots of Oliver's mission and the consequences of everything he's done."

While viewers know Adrian's secret, Oliver and Team Arrow are in the dark that one of their closest allies has been working against them. Adrian has known Oliver's secret identity, and after turning Team Arrow's Artemis (Evelyn Shaw) to the dark side, he also knows all their vulnerabilities. He has all the power, and will enjoy holding that over Oliver and his team moving forward as they try and scramble to figure out who this mysterious hooded killer is. And, at least for the time being, will always have the upper hand.

"Ultimately, the bond between them is really strong, which we hope will create a much bigger impact on Oliver when he finds out down the road who Adrian really is and that this is the guy who's been really messing with him all season," Mericle said.

But is Adrian a bad guy? Oliver is technically a serial killer and his actions in season one actually created this new serial killer since he killed Adrian's father and set Adrian's plan in motion. So what right does Oliver have in judging Prometheus?

That will be explored this season, Mericle said, noting that producers will try to humanize Adrian to give him some empathy.

"We've always striven to have the villain be the hero of their own story and to get underneath the reasons why they are what they are and do what they do," Mericle said. "Adrian Chase is no exception. What's interesting for us is how close those parallels are with Oliver's own story. We wanted to build a villain that's a dark mirror for Oliver, and honoring Oliver's past on the show, especially the first season. Seeing what it was like going through the loss. They've both suffered losses and they've both answered those losses in very different ways."

What sets Prometheus apart from the other big bads Oliver has defeated over the years is the fact that he's not trying to kill Oliver. He wants to destroy everything Oliver loves in a sick game of psychological torture.

"We really wanted to build him up as someone who is extremely good at being 10 steps ahead of Oliver, really being psychological in the way that he manipulates him," Mericle said. "One of the ways he does that is by going after the people that Oliver cares about. We’ve seen villains do that in the past, but this year Adrian does it in a way that’s a little bit more specific. His goal is very clear: he really has no drive to kill Oliver. It’s purely based on torture. It’s all part and parcel of this drive to break Oliver down psychologically as opposed to physically, which we have seen Slade [Manu Bennett] and Merlyn [John Barrowman] and everybody else do, take him on hand-to-hand. This is much more of a mental game."


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- Arrow desvela la identidad de Prometheus — ¿qué es lo siguiente? (EW):
Arrow desvela la identidad de Prometheus — ¿qué es lo siguiente?
Por Natalie Abrams 01/03/17


Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Arrow. Read at your own risk!

Prometheus’ identity was revealed during Wednesday’s episode of Arrow — and the twist hit very close to home for Oliver.

After news leaked that Oliver (Stephen Amell) helped cover up the circumstances behind Billy Malone’s (Tyler Ritter) death, the Star City mayor was targeted for corruption by Vigilante. After all his hard work, though, Prometheus couldn’t let that happen, going toe-to-toe with Vigilante, leading to the reveal that — shocker! — Adrian Chase is not under the Vigilante mask, as is his comic book counterpart, but Chase is actually Prometheus!

“Yes, we have a used the comic mythos to misdirect people, straight up,” Amell tells EW. “Although Vigilante does exist and he is somebody, Chase is Prometheus.”

Using the character’s comic book history against the audience was a plan the producers had actually decided pretty early on. As executive producer Marc Guggenheim explains: “We knew we were going to do Vigilante this year, we knew who the character of Prometheus was, we knew that the character of Prometheus was the son of one of Oliver’s early kills in season 1, we knew that he was going to be someone who was going to indoctrinate himself into Oliver’s good graces in the mayor’s office and eventually betray him. One morning, I was getting out of the shower and it occurred to me that if we called this character Adrian Chase, and we made him a district attorney, everyone would be so focused on when he becomes Vigilante that they wouldn’t be expecting that he really was Prometheus.”

For his part, Amell lauds the reveal, praising the work that Josh Segarra has done in the ensuing episodes. “A) you figure it’s going to take Oliver longer than it takes him to figure it out, but b) you figure once that reveal happens, Chase is essentially going to go into hiding and only show himself as Prometheus, which in fact he does the exact opposite,” Amell says. “He keeps up with his regular life as the district attorney because there is nothing that Oliver can do. It’s a full checkmate situation, and Josh has just been a rock star since that reveal. He’s been fantastic.”

Suffice it to say, Oliver is not going to handle the fact that he let the season’s big bad into his inner circle very well. “It’s going to be hard,” Guggenheim says. “It’s going to be harder than other big bads we’ve had because this is sort of the first time we’ve really played this personal relationship and being betrayed by someone that he had trusted. It’s very, very hard for Oliver.”

Though Oliver is determined to make Chase pay, that proves difficult because of Prometheus’ abduction of Oliver’s estranged girlfriend, Susan Williams (Carly Pope). “When he initially finds out,” Amell says, “it’s just very simple — ‘The first chance that I get, I’m going to kill you’ — and to this Adrian basically laughs, because Adrian has a full checkmate over his head — he has someone that Oliver cares about and if Oliver kills Chase, then that person dies.”

The question remains what Wednesday’s other big moment means for the Emerald Archer. Facing impeachment, Oliver was forced to denounce the Green Arrow, making him Public Enemy No. 1. “This really gets into what I think certain people have been waiting for, which is, ‘What is Prometheus’ plan?'” Amell says. “It really is in an incredibly cerebral and thoughtful way to make Oliver destroy himself from the inside out, but not so that he perishes from the Earth, so that eventually he can have a realization.”

The intersection of Oliver’s life as mayor and as the Emerald Archer comes as the show has really leaned into what Oliver’s legacy has wrought. “It’s a very traditional superhero trope — the superhero who has to separate themselves from their secret identity,” Guggenheim says. “With Arrow, we always say we don’t tend to spend a lot of story time on Oliver’s dual identity, but I think when we went into the season knowing that Oliver was going to be the mayor, we really wanted to play with that. We wanted to play with, what’s it like to be the mayor of a city that depends on a vigilante for the city’s safety? That places Oliver in a very interesting position.”

“In terms of the city trying to impeach Oliver and Oliver having to essentially throw the Green Arrow under the bus,” Amell adds, “as an actor, I’ve always really enjoyed the duality in those speeches and saying stuff through gritted teeth, but not really being able to show it is always a lot of fun.”

Oliver being the most hunted man in town also leaves Team Arrow’s existence in question. “It’s not going to be good,” Guggenheim says. “I will say that if the arc of this year is about Oliver putting together this new team, his lowest points, sort of the end of the second act of the drama, would certainly require us to threaten significantly that new team.”

However, a confluence of other events may render that point moot as Oliver faces even greater threats in the buildup to Prometheus’ ultimate plan. “He disavows the Green Arrow at the end of [season 5, episode 15] and then everything hits a total s— storm before we even get the main title credit at the beginning of 5-16,” Amell reveals. “Absolutely everything gets thrown for a loop. Through 5-16 and into 5-18, it’s a very strange arc for Oliver where we haven’t really yet had a chance to examine the way that the Green Arrow, and by extension the team, is going to be able to function.”


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- Dúo de Arrow hablan sobre la revelación de Prometheus y el gran impacto que tendrá en Oliver (TVLine):
Dúo de Arrow hablan sobre la revelación de Prometheus y el gran impacto que tendrá en Oliver
Por Vlada Gelman / 01/03/17, 6:00 PM PST


Warning: The following contains spoilers from Wednesday night’s episode of The CW’s Arrow.

Arrow finally unmasked Prometheus — the Big Bad who has been pointedly tormenting Oliver all season long — during this Wednesday’s episode, revealing that Oliver’s seeming ally in the mayor’s office, D.A. Adrian Chase (played by series regular Josh Segarra), is the evil, avenging archer.

In the comics, Chase’s alter ego is Vigilante, but the producers chose to flip the script “because everybody would be thinking, ‘Of course he’s going to be Vigilante,'” executive producer Wendy Mericle explains. “We thought it would be a really fun twist to… take the comic-book mythology and turn it on its head and see what kind of story we can mine from a surprise like that. It was also something different for this season. We wanted to change up how we introduced the Big Bad and when we did it.”

Fan speculation about Prometheus has run the gamut — it’s Susan Williams because of that thing on her wrist! Lance has gone dark! Tommy Merlyn is back! — but “we always knew that Adrian Chase… was our Big Bad,” Mericle says.

Segarra confirms that after he landed the role, co-showrunners Mericle and Marc Guggenheim said, “‘You’re going to be the Big Bad of the season, and you’re going to play this guy,’ and they described Prometheus to me.” (When his casting was then officially announced as Adrian Chase/Vigilante, the actor started studying up on Vigilante, thinking that’s who he was instead portraying. Thankfully, the producers cleared that confusion up for him.)

Although viewers are now aware of Prometheus’ true face — he exposed his mug to the audience when he took off his mask following a fight with Vigilante — Team Arrow will remain in the dark for the time being. As a result, the show gets to have “fun” as the characters continue to “interact with Adrian Chase in City Hall and elsewhere without knowing his real identity,” Mericle describes. “We’re going to play around with that for a little while before we let Oliver and the team find out.”

And find out they will, possibly sooner rather than later. “We’re not going to leave it to the end of the season,” Segarra promises. “We’re going to get to watch the pot get stirred a little bit. It’s hard because I already know how [Oliver] reacts, and I love the way it goes. You’re going to see Chase just kind of trying to burn the world around him.”

Mericle hopes that the “really strong” bond between the two men will “create a much bigger impact on Oliver when he finds out down the road who Adrian really is, and that this is the guy who’s been really messing with him all season.”

In the meantime, Prometheus will continue to make life hellish for Oliver by kidnapping his ex, Susan Williams.

“We really wanted to build him up as someone who is extremely good at being 10 steps ahead of Oliver, really being psychological in the way that he manipulates him,” Mericle shares. “One of the ways he does that is by going after the people that Oliver cares about… He really has no drive to kill Oliver. It’s purely based on torture.” Taking the reporter captive is “part and parcel of this drive to break Oliver down psychologically, as opposed to physically.”

And now that the series doesn’t have to tiptoe around Prometheus/Chase’s secret, “we will get a lot more sense, going forward, of why he has become so evil, why he’s so bent on revenge,” Mericle says.


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- Por qué Arrow convirtió a ese personaje en Prometheus (comicbook):
Por qué Arrow convirtió a ese personaje en Prometheus
Por Jenna Anderson - 01/03/2017


MAJOR spoilers for tonight's episode of Arrow!

Tonight's episode of Arrow completely shook up what fans thought they knew about the season's most prominent villains. After fans were led to believe that Star City's District Attorney, Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra), was following his comic book origin by doubling as the villain Vigilante, a completely different situation occurred.

As it turns out, Chase isn't actually Vigilante - he's the season's masked big bad, Prometheus.

We spoke to one of Arrow's executive producers, Wendy Mericle, about the Prometheus reveal, and why exactly the show chose to take highly-anticipated reveal of their villain's identity in that direction. According to Mericle, that sort of misdirect was exactly their intention from the start.

"One of the reasons we did do it was because everybody would be thinking, 'Of course he's going to be Vigilante.' Of course Adrian Chase is Vigilante in the comic books. And we thought it would be a really fun twist to do what we've always done on the show, which is to take the comic book mythology and turn it on its head, and see what kind of story we can mine from a surprise like that. It was also something different for this season. We wanted to change up how we introduced the big bad and change up when we did it, how we did it, and hopefully we succeeded in that this year."

Fan theories about Prometheus' identity ranged wildly, from Quentin Lance to Oliver's future son to a resurrected Tommy Merlyn. While the writers attempted to plant seeds of suspicion across the show's earlier episodes, Mericle said that Segarra playing Prometheus was the goal from the very beginning of the season.

"We always knew that Adrian Chase - and Josh Segarra, who is playing him - was our Big Bad. We always knew from the beginning in our very first discussions, which were started about a year ago right now. We knew that’s what we wanted him to be, that’s how we wanted to build it."

As for why Prometheus' revealed happened in tonight's episode, much less in the middle of a fight scene, completely to the surprise of fans expecting a huge end-of-episode reveal, Mericle says that was mainly an experiment on the show's part.

"I think in the timing of this specific episode, we had to play around with that a little bit more. There are certain moments in the season where you obviously want to build to. We could have done it in 5x09, we could have done it even later in 5x18. But I think we try, as much as possible, we try to let the stories dictate when these big reveals happen. It just felt right here, and it just felt right also to do it in the middle of the episode, and that also, I think, played against expectations in a good way."

Now that fans are aware of Prometheus' identity, a big question remains - when will Team Arrow discover the truth? As the promo for the next episode of Arrow revealed, Talia al Ghul actually does the honors of revealing Chase's secret to Oliver. When Oliver realizes that Susan has become kidnapped by Prometheus, he sets out on a crusade to stop him, although its clear that their conflict will stretch far beyond into the rest of the season.


http://comicbook.com/2017/03/02/arrow-p ... ian-chase/


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