GREEN ARROW Nears Pilot Order At CW

The CW is tying up a pilot order for Arrow, an hour-long superhero drama based on DC Comics’ Green Arrow.

Arrow is written and executive produced by The Green Lantern co-writers Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim and Fringe and Vampire Diaries alum Andrew Kreisberg.

As per Deadline:

I hear that David Nutter will likely direct the project, which takes the comic book character, created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and sets him in a new world with an original story that is not based on the comics, published by DC Entertainment. Arrow, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Television, was developed by Berlanti and Guggenheim who came up with the idea and wrote the storyline and then brought in Kreisberg to write the script. Kreisberg, who has comics experience, having written DC Comics’ Green Arrow and Black Canary among other books, previously worked with Berlanti and Guggenheim on their ABC drama Eli Stone.

Green Arrow is a fictional superhero who first appeared in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941. His secret identity is Oliver Queen, billionaire and former mayor of fictional Star City. Dressed like Robin Hood, Green Arrow is an archer who invents trick arrows with various special functions, such as glue arrows, net, explosive, time bomb, grappling, fire extinguishing, flash and tear gas arrows, and even a kryptonite arrow.

This will mark Arrow’s return to the CW after becoming a fixture in the departed Smallville (portrayed by Justin Hartley, who is not attached to Arrow) for a number of years. Arrow represents the CW’s second pilot order of the season, on the heels of picking up mystery drama Cult.

We await word on Arrow‘s seriability, though the potential is there.

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