We can thank Arrow‘s Oliver Queen for saving Starling City — and for saving an entire television network, too.
Now Guggenheim looks back on those days fondly — and believes we may not see them again, with The CW now pivoting away from original scripted shows: “I don’t think we could do Arrow today…
I don’t think we could have done it with the amount of leeway and creative freedom that we had.
The closest thing to it at the time was the WB/CW’s Superman origin story Smallville, he notes, “but Arrow was nothing like Smallville.
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MARC GUGGENHEIM (Arrow, DC's Legends of Tomorrow) Part 1 | The Showrunner Whisperer Episode 08