If you enjoyed the first clip from the CW’s super-heroic series, Arrow, you’re probably going to love the full trailer. While the clip featured star Stephen Amell putting all of us men-folk to shame with his uber-athletic portrayal of Oliver Queen, the trailer does a better job at setting up the origin of the titular character, Green Arrow. I was surprised and delighted when Paul Blackthorne (The Dresden Files) featured heavily in the trailer as a resident cop eager to hunt down the vigilante. I also thought, lest my eyes deceive me, that I caught a brief cameo from Smallville star, Kristin Kreuk, but perhaps viewers can confirm/correct me in the comment section. Hit the jump to check out the trailer [and sneak preview] for Arrow, coming to the small screen Wednesday evenings this fall on the CW.
Check out the trailer [and sneak preview] for the CW series, Arrow, followed by the official synopsis:
Here’s the official synopsis for Arrow:
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be – flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle – while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel’s father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver’s own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on – and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.
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No, Kristin Kreuk wasn’t on this trailer, although she is going to appear in another CW series called Beauty and the Beast.
Really? At 1:24? It sure as hell looks like her. Maybe it’s wishful thinking.
That’s likely Willa Holland who plays Oliver’s sister.
Indeed, it is Willa Holland.
Actually, looking forward to this – wielding a bow and arrow against crime is pretty badass.
Imagine, Batman would be 30 percent even awesome if he used arrows!
That would make 130% awesome. Mathematical impossibility.
I’m stating the obvious, but this looks like a terrible rip-off of Batman.
Or, why not just air Cast Away for the first 3 episodes, add in a one-liner about aging backwards, and boom! You have a great start to your show.
But really, this looks just like everything else these channels produce (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX). If it was on FX or AMC or a premium channel, I wouldn’t be so pessimistic (and the trailer wouldn’t suck).
I agree CW does not have Adult sensibilities That some WB shows had or UPN show Veronica Mars had. Too much of their shows are filled with exposition and repeating things those who been watching show for a season already know. Hopefully this season CW steps up the creativity on this but turns down the spoon feeding the audience.
I think that taking a leaf out of Batman’s book can only be a good thing. Green Arrow himself in the early days was more a less a riff off Batman anyway.
If they can launch Arrow in a well rounded way, then open up his ‘universe’ to other aspects of his long and varied history ( and other aspects of DC continuity ), that will be great.
There’s something primal and inherently badass about being an archer, so I hope the series capitalises on all of these things.
That’s Willa Holland (of The OC fame) as Oliver Queen’s sister.
Curiously ( not saying they will do this at all ), they could get Justin Hartley to come in and play Aquaman – as that did not take place in the ‘Smallville-verse’ either, like ARROW.
( I actually liked the Aquaman Pilot.
Show won’t be successful with that cookie cutter actor they got to play Green Arrow. He has nothing to make him stand out