First Word on the Green Arrow Film

[GrnMarvl14]

David Goyer, the screenwriter behind all three Blade films and Batman Begins (plus he directed Blade: Trinity) along with developing an idea for a Flash film has spilled the word on his concept for a Green Arrow film.

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Maybe it was giving up the gig writing and directing “The Flash” for Warner Bros., but it seems like David Goyer’s a little bit more into villains these days.

Just weeks after he and Warners envisioned very different takes on the Flash, Goyer sold the studio on an idea that focused on the more villainous side of the DC Universe.

“Super Max” is Goyer’s take on supervillain incarceration in the DCU. Revolving around a wrongly convicted Green Arrow being whisked away to the super max prison for out-of-control heroes and villains (where he's forced to face a number of inmates he put there), Goyer says the flick—which he’s developing with writer Justin Marx—isn’t just a Green Arrow film.

“He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed,” says Goyer, who also has plans to do a graphic novel or miniseries that would tie in to the possible film. “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.”

 

[Zeta]

This idea would actually work better with the Flash, seeing as how he and his villains tend to hang out together in their off hours.

 

[Doctor Oak]

As much as I have loved Goyer's other works, I'm sorry but this movie just screams "fanwank suckyness" to me...

Not convinced it'll really live up to Blade or Begins...

 

[GrnMarvl14]

I like that someone's wanting to try something new. But this plot could suck for two big reasons:

1. They go super-serious. A man who has a boxing-glove arrow canNOT be too serious.

2. They do humor. And prison jokes aren't funny. Unless you're thirteen and hearing them for the first time.

BUT, it IS Goyer. He has a good track record. I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I just wish we'd get an update on Flash.