We are just one week away from the Season 2 premiere of Arrow on the CW. The hit series went off with a bang last year, destroying major parts of Starling City. Now in the wake of the quake, Oliver Queen has returned to the island that made him. This year, he is also going to need a lot of help from his friends--most notably, his sidekick Speedy (Roy Harper) and Justice League cohort, The Flash (Barry Allen). Of course, this announcement follows the announcement that a Flash spin-off is coming soon.
Arrow is right around the corner and executive producer Andrew Kreisberg gave Access Hollywood a little taste of what to expect:
“[When] he starts out the season he doesn’t want to be the vigilante anymore and by the time he comes back, he doesn’t just pick up the bow again, he decides he wants to be a hero. Last season was all about revenge and it was all very ‘Hamlet’-esque, sort of driven by the ghost of his father. … This season, he’s also driven by a ghost, but it’s the ghost of Tommy [Merlin] who died [in the Season 1 finale] not thinking the best of Oliver, this season is less about sort of atoning for his father’s sins and [more about] honoring the kind of man he wanted to be for Tommy...Last season had a very dark objective… crossing names off the list...This season, he puts the book away and it’s really about being an example and being a symbol and he’s gonna discover that that’s not so easy.”
He also went on to talk about Oliver's soon to be sidekick Roy Harper, (a.k.a. Speedy in the comics) whois played by actor Colton Haynes:
''He’s dismayed to discover that Roy Harper is hell bent on being his ally whether he wants [him] to be or not, which is a really fun arc for the season because Oliver has to go from not liking Roy at all, to seeing that he’s kind of a good influence on his sister, to, ‘Oh, crap. I’ve gotta keep my sister’s boyfriend alive.’ So that’s sort of fun for him."
If Ollie needs a little more help this year he will also be joined by Justice Leauger The Flash, played by Grant Gustin:
"As we were writing these episodes, we cast Grant in the middle of it and it was interesting because Grant, just like Stephen, ironically, was the first person we saw say the lines. … It was funny because as each one of us — Geoff [Johns, DC Chief Creative Officer] and Greg [Berlanti, EP] and I were working on individual scenes or what not, we all sort of came together and said, ‘We’re all writing Grant.’ And it was just him, just in the same way that it was Stephen.''
Season 2 of Arrow starts,next Wednesday October 9th, at 8pm on the CW.
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