Katie Cassidy On Why She Has No Regrets About GREEN ARROW AND THE CANARIES Not Being Picked Up (Exclusive)

Katie Cassidy On Why She Has No Regrets About GREEN ARROW AND THE CANARIES Not Being Picked Up (Exclusive)

Talking to us about her standout role in Agent Game, Katie Cassidy explains why she has no regrets over The CW's decision to not move forward with Arrow spinoff Green Arrow and the Canaries. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Apr 08, 2022 12:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Arrow

"Green Arrow & The Canaries" was the ninth episode of Arrow's eighth and final season, and put the spotlight on Oliver Queen's future daughter, Mia Smoak, in 2040 where she was joined by Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake, the Arrowverse's Black Canaries. The only episode of The CW show not to feature Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen, it was meant to serve as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series.

Despite season-high ratings and positive reviews, the network ultimately decided against moving forward with Green Arrow and the Canaries, which obviously disappointed a lot of Arrow fans. 

Those characters have since been sidelined, and Katie Cassidy (part of the Arrowverse since the very beginning) has moved on from playing Black Canary. Talking to us about her role in the riveting new spy thriller, Agent Game, we asked the actress whether she thinks The CW missed a trick by not moving forward with what could have been a great female-led superhero TV series. 
 


"[Shakes Head] No. I say this in the most respectful, kind, realistic way…we really, really milked that cow. Like, c’mon. You evolve, you grow, you…I love learning and I love acting, but also, I started in features and I’m stepping back into [them]. I’m directing this movie with Marina Studios that I’m also producing called Daddy issues. I’m writing and tapping into this creative side of me that I’ve never had time to because I’ve been acting. I’ve loved acting my whole life, but I want to grow."

"It’s not that I wouldn’t have loved for the show to go [ahead] because I loved working with everyone, but let’s do something different! Let’s shake some shit up! [Laughs]. We know about the superheroes. We’ve been there. What’s next? There were vampires with the Twilight thing and superheroes have been cool for a decade and will forever be cool, but let’s go to aliens again or, I don’t know, monsters. Things evolve and then maybe we’ll go to space with aliens and monsters."

Having devoted nearly a decade of her life to the Arrowverse across over 150 episodes of television, it's hardly a surprise that Cassidy is ready to do something different. It's clear from her reaction that she has no regrets over Green Arrow and the Canaries not being picked up to series; after all, that would have taken up another few years of her career playing Black Canary in this DC Universe. 

As noted, Cassidy has made her return to the big screen with Agent Game, a movie that stars heavy-hitters like Mel Gibson, Jason Isaacs, and Dermot Mulroney. You can watch the trailer below.

Agent Game arrives in Theaters, Digital, and On Demand April 8, 2022.
 

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blacksocksdaily
blacksocksdaily - 4/8/2022, 12:12 PM
"There were vampires with Twilight" ... There were vampires before Twilight.
Origame
Origame - 4/8/2022, 1:04 PM
@Waddles - now I'm thinking of that stand up routine from Dimitri Martin where he talks about minimal vandalism to get the most effect. Like putting a z at the end of pizza.

So people would drive by saying "this town sure has a lot of pizzaz parlors."
Blergh
Blergh - 4/8/2022, 1:05 PM
@blacksocksdaily - Yeah but you can't deny that Twilight brought vampires back on the map as a main genre in the late 2000s.
The Underworld films were all that kept vampires in the limelight but once the Twilight series started vampire media spread like wildfire
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 4/8/2022, 12:16 PM
Regardless of her thoughts, I think it was a huge miss and loss for the Arrowverse for this show not to be picked up. Same with the Painkiller spinoff from Black Lightning. These shows actually had potential to recharge corners of the Arrowverse, instead of just beating an OG show further into the ground with diminishing returns each season (looking at you Flash and Legends of Tomorrow). They had Katherine McNamara return last fall for that Armageddon episode of Flash, but man was that bad as she was written so terribly that it completely, 100% took away any interest in seeing her character then.

The CW had a concrete plan for the Arrowverse for almost a decade. And now, besides Supermann & Lois, they really have no idea what they are doing.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 4/8/2022, 12:18 PM
Pretty wack to leave the pilot on a cliffhanger like that.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 4/8/2022, 12:24 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - the CW has a tendency to do this, and it really undermines them. They ordered a first season for both this show and the Painkiller spinoff, even filmed the pilot for this Canaries show. And hell, unless I'm misremembering, they had directly ordered a first season for the Painkiller show, had scripts for multiple episodes written, had begun casting people, and were in pre-production before pulling the plug.
dracula
dracula - 4/8/2022, 12:22 PM
Should move Mia to Legends and wrap it up there.

They did that for Constantine and Vixen
dracula
dracula - 4/8/2022, 12:34 PM
Cw should stop with backdoor pilots, they never get picked up.

Didnt Supernatural have two, neither of which happened and the spin off that is being made is having a regular pilot.

Bet if Flash had it’s planned backdoor pilot on Arrow it wouldn't have been picked up
Blergh
Blergh - 4/8/2022, 1:04 PM
Hated how she got treated by both the writers and fanbase of Arrow in the first few seasons.
It was almost daily that we got a picture of her on twitter about either being "too fat", "a terrible actress" or "a drug addict because she looks like one".
Sh*t even evolved to cyber bullying, the Arrow fanbase was toxic as all hell.

Only once her first character died and she stopped being "a threat" to the Oliver/Felicity couple fans stopped giving her the ass-treatment.

Hope for the best for her career, just sad she's in a Saban-geezer-sleezer film. Would hope she turns to Marvel or something
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/8/2022, 5:28 PM
Monsters from space does sound pretty cool. Wouldn't mind seeing something like Alien or The Thing again, just not as a sequel or reboot to one of the 80s movies. Just make a new thing.

That said, I don't mind either I didn't move ahead. It was basically Green Arrow S9, and that just ended on a high note. Rather just see them throw some superheroes from the CW together and make a cross-over JL show.
2013venjix
2013venjix - 4/9/2022, 12:58 AM
I'm sure there been some opportunities for this spinoff, but for me, I'm mostly relieved that they never went forward with this, because it's already been damaged goods thanks to Arrow and the direction it took.
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