'Arrow' Season 3 Episode 1 Spoilers: Actor Stephen Amell Teases Action-Packed Opening Scene
Season 3 of The CW's action-packed series "Arrow" will kick off with a bang next month.
Over the weekend, "Arrow" star Stephen Amell dropped a few spoilers about the Season 3 premiere during his an appearance at the Montreal Comic-Con, revealing that the first scene will feel like a James Bond movie.
"We start off the third season...it was always the idea of the producers that..you know how in James Bond movies they start off with a big action sequence that isn't directly tied into the plot of that particular movie? It's just to establish that we are watching an action film, and it's James Bond and he does James Bond stuff," said Amell, according to ComicBook.com. "We start off the third season with a gigantic action set piece. You've seen pieces of it in the preview for Season 3, and it is myself, Diggle, Roy, and his whole costume. And then of course Felicity at the helm. And it's just all of us kicking a--. And it's good."
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim also teased that Oliver will have "new toys" in the upcoming season, reports TVLine. "In the season premiere, you'll see a new kind of arrow," said the showrunner, adding that "And in Episode 5, there's another new kind of arrow we've never seen before. Season 3 is like a movie sequel, where he's got new gadgets to play with!"
Oliver will also face off with a new ongoing nemesis, Ra's al Ghul, who will cause havoc and strike a chord with Oliver emotionally.
In an interview with Comic Book Resources, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg opened up about Ra's al Ghul and what makes him different from the other villains in Seasons 1 and 2.
According to Kreisber, the villain's character is something "we hadn't done before."
"With Malcolm [Merlyn], it was a very specific villain who had a very specific agenda," Kreisberg said. "That was designed where they didn't even necessarily know they were up against each other until the very end."
In addition, Slade Wilson, who Arrow defeated in Season 2, was thirsty for vengeance against Oliver.
"For season three, we wanted a new challenge for Oliver," Kreisberg stated. Ra's "really speaks to the emotional theme of the season, which is, 'Can I be both the Arrow and Oliver Queen at the same time?' The villain says to Oliver, 'The reason you're not able to fully be the Arrow and do the things you should be doing is because you're still holding on to Oliver Queen. I've left my identity behind to fully commit to my cause. If you did that, you could rise as high as I am.' Knowing that was emotionally what we wanted to do, that was how we landed on [Ra's]."
"Arrow" premieres on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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