Supermax - Green Arrow Story

Just last week, i posted a fan rant that concludes in proclaiming myself as a DC fan. Yet, i had no idea before today that there's actually some work in progress since last year on Green Arrow! By David Goyer nonetheless, a no stranger writer for a superhero film as he was the one who also responsible for Batman Begins. And you know how i louuve the big black bat.

From the man himself, "He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed. 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.” which pretty much summarize the film. As you may have noticed, the film (if there ever be one, that is) doesn't start with origin as usually does with the first superhero film (Spider-Man, Iron Man, Batman Begins, et cetera) and instead kicked off right away with our superhero already poised and masked.

According to LatinoReview, who had an opportunity to read the script said that the origin of Green Arrow aka Oliver Queen would be superimposed with a flashback scene but the focus would still be fixed on Oliver Queen and his attempt to escape from the Supermax penitentiary for metahumans. And, according to the script, The Riddler, Joker, and Lex Luthor were also inmates in Supermax although i don't really get what they were doing in Star City.

I surely hope that this film would take off beyond script.