Arrow Star Stephen Amell Talks TV and Movie Separation, Green Arrow Name and More

Warner Bros. and DC Comics revealed at San Diego Comic-Con last weekend that they would keep the upcoming DC movie universe and the ever-expanding television universe separate for the foreseeable future. That means people can finally stop asking Arrow star Stephen Amell if he will appear in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice or the Justice League movie.

Amell spoke to Collider at Comic-Con and the site asked if he was relieved to not have to deal with any more questions about it.

"Yes. And by the way, there's The Flash show, we have Firestorm, we have Canary, we have The Atom...The actual Justice League film, I don't know when that's coming out. You can watch The Justice League on television now. But the reason I'm happy to not have to answer the question anymore is because I think it undersold what we did on TV. I would put our degree of difficulty - having to produce twenty-two episodes of television every year, spinning off the show, giving people the confidence to green-light other DC properties - up there with producing a two hundred million dollar film. They're very different things. I never want to feel as though our existence is only going to be justified by being part of the cinematic universe. That has nothing to do with anything. We are stamping out our own spot."

Discussion turned to his character on the show, which has been known as "The Vigilante," "The Hood" and "The Arrow" so far in the first two seasons. But Amell said he firmly believes the show is "moving to a spot where we will call refer to my character as 'The Green Arrow.'"

We are moving to a spot where we will continue to embrace the fundamental classic elements of the character because we have that license now," he said. "We're 46 episodes in. People like it. They buy into it. But unless this character is evolving - The Hood to Arrow to The Green Arrow - then people are going to lose interest. So I always want there to be a journey for him. And this year's journey is really interesting."

The site also asked if that transformation would include the famous Green Arrow goatee, and Amell had a simple, direct answer. "No."

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