Susanna Thompson Joins The Cast Of ARROW

The Dragonfly actress has signed on to play the mother of Green Arrow/Oliver Queen in The CW's upcoming pilot Arrow, a modern revision of the DC Comics character.

By PaulRom - Feb 14, 2012 02:02 PM EST

Filed Under: Green Arrow

Deadline reports that Susanna Thompson - previously seen in NCIS and Dragonfly - has landed one of the female leads on the CW pilot Arrow, based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow/Oliver Queen. Thompson will play the character's mother, Moira Queen. The actress joins Stephen Amell (Green Arrow) and David Ramsey (John Diggle) in the pilot, which is directed by Smallville's David Nutter, and it's written/executive produced by Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim.

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The Warner Bros TV-produced project, described as a modern retelling of the story of DC Comics character Green Arrow, stars Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero who fights crime using archery, martial arts and technology under his secret identity as Oliver Queen, a wealthy playboy and billionaire industrialist-turned-outspoken politician in Star City.

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17 Comments

headlopper - 2/14/2012, 3:06 PM

This show's gonna bomb. Mark my words.

thewolfx - 2/14/2012, 3:06 PM

this show is gonna fail

yeah greenarrow is cool

but he doesnt have the appeal of superman

HelaGood - 2/14/2012, 3:10 PM

i QUIVER with anticipation...

ManofSteel23 - 2/14/2012, 3:12 PM

let me guess,shes gonna have some influence on him becoming a hero n shit,I sense a smallville rip off

leopoldinio - 2/14/2012, 3:12 PM

no comic origin only based on character< boring

headlopper - 2/14/2012, 3:14 PM

Nightwing FTW.

Give 'Dick' a 'shot'.

headlopper - 2/14/2012, 3:37 PM

@ironman53- Thanx!

You have your answer CW (we know you read these threads) Give us what we want.

Fanboys know best. :)

Spock - 2/14/2012, 3:40 PM

Bring back Generation X! of Fox!

HelaGood - 2/14/2012, 3:41 PM

Nightwing would be awesome!!!
but once again, WB likes to play it safe...

HelaGood - 2/14/2012, 3:41 PM

a Nightwing show on cable... balls to the wall... dark... violent... would be kick-ass!

headlopper - 2/14/2012, 3:53 PM

@HelaGood- You sir, have just given me chills! Awesome suggestion!

CherryBomb - 2/14/2012, 4:19 PM

She's very pretty (:

and they're moving ahead with this? where is the Jessica Jones, Cloak and Dagger and Hulk tv show we were promised ages ago!?!?!?!

I WANT TO SEE THEM!
- Smallville had it's time, and now some new, fresh material should be shown.

soberchimera - 2/14/2012, 5:29 PM

Any news on the Booster Gold show?

AUSSYACE - 2/15/2012, 12:36 AM

Lets give this a chance...

It's at least better than the zillion medical dramas and cop shows on TV these days...

Bartman87 - 2/15/2012, 10:10 AM

They should just continue with GA from Smallville recast if necessary but don't go the Smallville route just move the character from Metropolis to Star City. Go the lost fortune route and make him the street vigilante he was in the 60's and 70's with dark story lines and not cheesefest romance that WB is keen to use to bring in legions of female viewers to up its ratings but ostracize the fans.

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