“Arrow” was originally planned to be a 5 season story arc, but now the game has changed as the show will be returning for season 6 in the fall. Season 6 hasn’t even started yet, but while writing ideas for the new season the creative team has already begun brainstorming ideas for season 7.
During a recent conversation with SlashFilm at the Television Critics Association press tour, executive producer Marc Guggenheim revealed that season 7 is already taking shape.
“We’ve already started talking about ooh, we have a shape for season seven already. This is the earliest we’ve ever had an idea for a season that far ahead, but it’s come out of our conversations about season six.”
Hopefully “Arrow” will make it to season 7, but the show has not been picked up for season 7 yet, as the earliest the CW would announce a renewal would be spring of 2018.
However, if for some reason season 6 is the last season for the show, it will be wrapped up nicely because the endpoint has already been figured out.
“I think we’ve always had an endpoint in mind,” Guggenheim said. “We’ve always known how we want to end the show. That end point doesn’t require X number of seasons. If we had to, we could work towards it as long as we knew with enough leeway, we could work towards the moment we’ve been talking about since day one.”
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“Arrow” will return on Thursday, October 12.
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice.
As the Green Arrow, he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer-science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen (Willa Holland), Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and meta-human Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy).
Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his “family”.
