David Goyer has sold Warner Bros on making a movie based on the Green Arrow DC comics character. The catch: he’s stuck in prison.
Goyer’s (Batman Begins, Blade, Dark City) Super Max would follow a wrongly convicted Green Arrow as he is incarcerated in a super maxim security prison for out-of-control heroes and super villains. Arrow will come face to face with some of the people he put in the prison. I believe this is an idea that was ripped from a recent Daredevil series. Soiunds like an interesting unconventional superhero movie - I wonder if Hollywood will actually greenlight such a thing.
“He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed,” Goyer told Wizard. “They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It’s like ‘Alcatraz,’ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they’re all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that.”
Goyer is developing the film with someone named Justin Marx.
Green Arrow was created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp in 1941. His secret identity is Oliver Queen, billionaire and mayor of fictional Star City. Dressed like Robin Hood, Green Arrow is an archer, who invents arrows with various special functions, such as a glue arrow, a net arrow, or a boxing-glove arrow. Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith gave the series a rebirth in 2000.
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September 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of. This is a Super Hero Movie not “Prison Break”.
By taking Ollie out of his costume and stripping him of his bow, he’s no longer “Green Arrow”, he’s just simply Oliver Queen.
You did such a fantastic job on “Batman Begins”, it was the only comic movie so far that came close to following the story, why butcher this one??
I’ve been waiting for someone to make a GA movie for years now and I was very excited to hear about this until I read the plot.
GA is my all time favorite Comic Character, but I’d rather see no movie ever made then to witness such a horrid movie to be made.
God I hope DC never allows this to come to pass.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I think you should make a conventional superhero movie to spread a good name for green arrow he isn’t exactly the most famous superhero but he does kick alot of butt. robin hood is doing well doing what he was made to do why not the same for Green Arrow!
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I have recently finished a screenplay based on green Arrow year one - and i am about to begin the direct sequal to this film. All though i have heard that work on the film has technically begun, WB are still looking for ideas for the story- the film due to release in late 09.
i have a meeting with WB next week.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
The concept of any superhero jailed for being a vigilante is gut-wrenching at best. Instead of good always triumphs over evil, the concept reverts to in the end evil will get the best of good and good becomes evil.
I thoroughly enjoyed Batman Begins and look forward to The Dark Knight in a few weeks. If the Green Arrow film moves as quickly and has the same depth to character development that we saw with Batman it will be a worthy addition to the growth in cinematic superhero lore.
Green arrow has always been an in the shadows hero that would be awesome to expose to those that are unaware of his character. 2009 can’t come soon enough!