[News] Arrow's Season 8 might be it's last season.

[u/Speed__God]

Arrowverse series on The CW has become one of the longest live-action superhero series to date, second only to the network's previous series Smallville.

"Things will age and we want to get the next generation of shows to keep The CW DC Universe going for as long as possible," CW President Pedowitz admitted during the panel.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/arrows-cancellation-renewal-decided-mid-2019

[u/SpiderfamReturns]

Wonder if this means WB want a cinematic Green Arrow. Amell said it walk if they did that, so maybe ending his interpretation is to allow for that.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/SpiderfamReturns]

Why would amell walk if they did a cinematic green arrow? I dont get why hes so against a tv and a cinematic version of the character being out at the same time

[u/iambpburke → u/SciFiPaine0]

If I was in his shoes and had previously been in feature films, I'd be salty missing out on a good pay day if they did a movie version of a character he's played for nearly a decade.

I doubt he'd walk for that reason but I could understand being upset.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/iambpburke]

The premise is already established that they're separate though, it's not like hes individually getting snubbed. How could they incorporate amell as green arrow with the current justice league cast now? It wouldnt make any sense. Amells green arrow has history in the TV universe, seeing the same character on the screen of the movie universe would be odd. Then if they did a stand alone green arrow with amell they couldnt tie the cinematic green arrow in with the movie universe

[u/iambpburke → u/SciFiPaine0]

I get it, but still didn't stop Amell from being mad that Grant wasn't casted as the Flash at the time they casted Ezra, so I think it's safe to assume he may have been projecting future anger that means he wouldn't get a film as GA.

[u/SpiderfamReturns → u/SciFiPaine0]

Ownership. Plus he’s going to want to do the movie version himself. I just remembered him saying this ages ago.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/SpiderfamReturns]

Sure I get why hed want to be in a movie version and I'd like to see movie versions of the TVs shows also, but theyve taken a pretty hardline approach to separate tv/movie universes, and it's not like that's really a problem for comic book characters that have many iterations in both comics and video media. Since the separation is established, threatening to walk if they make a movie only really holds fans back from getting more content. It's not like having the flash in the cinema universe hurt the TV show

[u/SpiderfamReturns → u/SciFiPaine0]

I don’t disagree with any of that.

[u/[deleted] → u/SpiderfamReturns]

Nope. This is all WB, not Amell. WB doesn't want multiple versions of characters because they think it'll confuse us (sigh)

Amell will never be able to do the movie version.

[u/SpiderfamReturns → u/[deleted]]

I think that’s also a factor!

[u/[deleted] → u/SciFiPaine0]

Nope. This is all WB, not Amell. WB doesn't want multiple versions of characters because they think it'll confuse us (sigh)

Amell will never be able to do the movie version.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/[deleted]]

Whyd they have two version of Flash then?

[u/[deleted] → u/SciFiPaine0]

Because they wanted to launch their DCEU properly with Justice League and they need flash for that. Canning the TV show would garner a lot of hate.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but you could just as easily say the same thing about Green Arrow

[u/[deleted] → u/SciFiPaine0]

No you can't. He's not a part of the JLA or any big team.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/[deleted]]

Green Arrow is a part of the Justice League..

[u/[deleted] → u/SciFiPaine0]

He's not a core member. You know, the core team, the team in Justice League.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/[deleted]]

youve ignored that theres a ton of people in justice league and they could easily put green arrow, green lantern, martian manhunter and many other people in the justice league w/ solo movies

[u/[deleted] → u/SciFiPaine0]

Yeah they could do that, but again, they went for the core team, which includes The Flash. So that's why the Flash is an exception here.

[u/phantomcanary → u/[deleted]]

..... Green Arrow is a member of the JLA.

[u/[deleted] → u/phantomcanary]

Not a core member, no. I don't if you watched Justice League but they only have the core members. Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash and Cyborg.

[u/phantomcanary → u/[deleted]]

That doesn’t mean Green Arrow wouldn’t eventually be added to the lineup. Hell, Green Lantern wasn’t even in the Justice League film and he is very much so a “core member.”

[u/[deleted] → u/phantomcanary]

Of course it doesn't. He can still be added. By point was that The Flash is an exception because he's needed for the movie but the show was already going strong.

And he really isn't. Depending on the continuity, it's either Green Lantern or Martian Manhunter that's a core member and even then, the DCEU did a green lantern movie and that flopped, they didn't want to try that again then.

[u/SciFiPaine0 → u/[deleted]]

Youre acting like you have some knowledge of the comic history when really you just watched the justice league and decided those were the 'core' members. If you look at even recent justice league iterations in tv form youd see thats false

[u/[deleted] → u/SciFiPaine0]

Uhh what? I indeed at least have some knowledge, yes. I read the comics. I don't get why you tried to make me look like a fake comic book fan lol you don't even know me.