ARROW Star Stephen Amell Says Warner Bros. Killed Plans For a Movie
According to Arrow star Stephen Amell, Warner Bros. and DC were actually looking at making a hardcore Arrow movie but said that Warner Bros. killed the project.
During a recent appearance on Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast, Amell was talking about the idea of a revival, saying:
"I mean, I joked about it because I think that it would be wonderful one of these days to go back and do something that was in a medium where I could break bones and drop an F-bomb and just sort of go the 'hard r' [rating] version of Arrow."
He then went on to say that he and the Arrow team actually tried to do it with a movie. He explained: "To my understanding, it just got killed at the studio level from people that, I think, were making decisions… that were fear-based.”
He doesn’t offer any details on when that was being worked on. If it was something they were looking to do while the show was still going on or if it was something that they wanted to do after the show came to a close.
Arrow was a pretty popular show with fans and critics, and had they taken it to the feature film level, there’s no doubt that it would’ve been a big event.
WB had issues with DC movies for years and while Arrow was going, they couldn’t quite figure out what they wanted to do with the DC films. I imagine the executives didn’t think it would make sense to produce an Arrow movie during a time when they couldn’t even make the movies they were making really work.
Maybe they thought releasing an Arrow movie would confuse audiences more than they already were. In the end, it just wasn’t meant to be. But, it could’ve been cool!
