The final season of Arrow airs this Fall and will revolve around Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) working for the Monitor as he heads off on a series of missions to try to stop the world from ending. However, there's also going to be some big surprises for fans, including the return of familiar faces (such as Tommy Merlyn and Adrian Chase).
"Episode 1 is an ode to season 1, and episode 2 is an ode to season 3," teases Amell.
"We’re playing our greatest hits." Will the show end with the demise of Ollie, though?
"Because he’s a superhero with no superpowers, I always felt he should die — but he may also not die. I cried as [Marc Guggenheim] was telling me. There are a lot of hurdles to get over to make that final scene."
According to showrunner Beth Schwartz,
"Everything relates to what’s going to happen in our crossover episode, which we’ve never done before." Fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim adds:
"Oliver [is told] he’s going to die, so each episode in the run-up to ‘Crisis’ has Oliver dealing with the various stages of grief that come with that discovery. So the theme really is...acceptance."
Along with details on "Crisis on Infinite Earths,"
Entertainment Weekly has shared five new magazine covers putting the spotlight on Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), The Flash (Grant Gustin), Green Arrow, White Canary (Caity Lotz), and Batwoman (Ruby Rose).
We also have some awesome promo shots of the characters, and while it doesn't appear as if they're in their new costumes (the Girl of Steel still has her skirt, for example), they are still very cool. Hit the "View List" button below to check out the full gallery!
says Benoist, who originally played Supergirl on CBS before the show was moved to The CW.
"It took me a long time to actually feel that strength [of being a superhero]. I feel like if you don’t feel it from the inside out, it’s not going to translate."
"I get to be the Flash on TV, surrounded by all these other superheroes and it’s something I never want to take for granted," Gustin says when asked what being The Flash means to him.
"[When] they offered me the job [on Arrow], if they had said, ‘Yeah, you can have the job, but you have to pay us $5,000 per episode just to be in the show’ I would’ve been like, ‘Yeah, okay. Sure, I’ll do that,'" Amell says, reflecting on being cast as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow when the show launched in 2012.
"Arrow was the most important thing in my entire life by a wide margin. And then I got married, and it became the co-most important thing in my life. Then my wife and I had [our daughter], and Arrow dropped to number three, but I f–ing care a lot about it. I really, really do. I think about it all the time."
"I didn’t know what I was getting myself into," Lotz says, reflecting on being cast as Black Canary in
Arrow.
"I remember talking to my friend and was like, ‘I don’t know. I look terrible in this costume.’ She was like, ‘It doesn’t even matter how you look. All that matters is how you feel. If you feel good, you will look good.’ I was like, “Yes, I feel good. I look good. Let’s do it!'"
"I feel like up until now I haven’t really been given the opportunity to play a character that has these dynamics of such severe trauma and such heartbreak and betrayal and loss," Rose says of her role as Batwoman.
"She’s heavy. She has a really heavy heart for a lot of very valid reasons."