"Supermax" is Goyer's take on supervillain incarceration in the DC universe, the magazine reported. Goyer's story revolves around a wrongly convicted Green Arrow, who is whisked away to the supermax prison for out-of-control heroes and villains, where he's forced to face a number of inmates that he put there.
"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 the magazine. "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."