Green Arrow Headed to Legends of Tomorrow
"Rise of the Goatee"
My name is Oliver Queen, and I’m headed for the future. Stephen Amell is destined to appear on
DC's Legends of Tomorrow, but when he does, the Green Arrow will be looking a little worse for the wear.
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Arrow -- "Blood Debts" Pictured: Stephen Amell as The Arrow -- Photo: Katie Yu/ The CW -- © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.[/caption]
In a throwback to the Frank Miller classic
The Dark Knight Returns, comic-book fans will recognize Oliver Queen but he’ll be missing his left arm and will be sporting the legendary Green Arrow goatee. Despite twitter rants last summer by Amell of “100% No. Never.” in regards to rumors he was growing the goatee for
Arrow, it seems the old switcheroo was pulled. He only said it wasn’t showing up on
Arrow sporting some new facial hair, but no mention of
Legends of Tomorrow was made.
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim told Entertainment Weekly "We're not only introducing our version of Connor Hawke (Oliver Queen’s son and the second Green Arrow) to our universe, we're going to meet the 2046 version of Oliver Queen, and Stephen Amell is going to be reprising his role from
Arrow. We think this episode features some of the coolest things we've ever done."
Amell posted a Facebook video addressing the news and confirmed he, Connor Hawke and the goatee -- will all appear in episode 6 of the new series, which airs Thursday nights at 8pm EST on the CW.
