Following its season premiere on the CW, “Arrow” came to New York Comic Con 2012 ready to show off with a panel on the final day of the show. Featuring series stars Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen), Katie Cassidy (Laurel Lance) and Willa Holland (Thea Queen) along with producer Marc Guggenheim took the stage in a packed theater for a special video presentation and question and answer session with the audience looking back at last week’s pilot and forward to the rest of the first season.
DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns took the stage clad in a Green Lantern hat and Dr. Pepper shirt and introduced the panel, starting with Marc Guggenheim.
“Instead of talking about [what I’m excited about], why don’t we show some stuff?” asked Guggenheim. A clip began playing with Stephen Amell saying “My father left me a list of names,” and detailing his reason for becoming a vigilante. Clips were shown of Oliver’s time on the island, a sneak peek of John Barrowman’s character. Plus an interaction with Laurel Lance and Amell’s Arrow character. The first footage of Deathstroke also appeared, alone girth a fight between Arrow and China White, Deadshot attempting to assassinate someone and a number of quick cuts with a ton of action. “Every last one of them will wish I had died on that island,” Amell, as Arrow, said at the end of the clip.
Cassidy, Holland and Amell joined Guggenheim on stage following the clip and Johns kicked things off asking Guggenheim about comic book influence.
“Obviously, Andrew [Kreisberg] and I write comic books. We approach each episode as fans,” he said. “‘Longbow Hunters’ and ‘Year One’ are huge influences on our take.” Guggenheim further described the approach as “Nolan”-esque.
Amell spoke briefly about his time training for archery on the show. The actor watched a 45 minute video on all the ways archery had been done poorly on film and television before even picking up a bow. “The archery world has a term — it’s called Legolasing,” he said. “I didn’t want to Legolas.”
Holland commented on the fact that she was called “Speedy” in the pilot and said she was ready to pick up the bow.
Cassidy said her experience playing Laurel Lance as “awesome.
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