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And he just didn’t burn Robert Queen’s grave.” We figured that 20 years in the future, life finds its way back on the island so that’s why we had some greenery having grown over the graves. “He blew up the island but he didn’t decimate it. “We definitely talked about that,” Schwartz says with a laugh. In the future storyline you’re going to be able to see were vigilantes effective? How did that affect Star City in the future? How did it affect The Glades? How did it affect all the characters we love? Are people going to be the same or different? It opens up the world a lot.”Īnd for those keeping track, while Lian Yu was blown up by Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra) in the season five finale, it wasn’t completely destroyed. With the flash forwards, we’re able to see the consequences of what our team has done in the present day story. “I wanted to make sure that we were telling the story we needed to tell instead of being forced to tell them in every episode. “When we had flashbacks in every episode, sometimes it felt like a little too much,” Schwartz says. The flash forwards will not be in every episode, but they will be in most. We have a whole separate mythology for the flash forwards and we have a lot of new characters and that’s why it feels so fresh we’re doing two shows in one.”

“What do we do after five seasons? It just made sense to go forward into the future instead of continuing flashbacks. “It was when we realized this show might go on beyond five seasons and I know that Marc had always said the flashbacks were five years,” she adds.

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While Schwartz doesn’t remember which writer or producer originally came up with the flash forward idea in the early days of Arrow, it was set in the core mythology of the series years ago. We always wanted to do something like that and then this season I pitched it to Greg and he was like, ‘Yes!’ We knew we wanted something fresh and new for season seven and my favorite part of the show was always the flashbacks and the mystery of how Oliver became the Green Arrow and his origin story.” “Especially since we knew about William and we thought that would be really cool to see how he’s been affected by his childhood and his father. “I’ve been on the show since the beginning and we had always in the room discussed the possibility when the flashbacks ended that we would do the flash forwards,” executive producer Beth Schwartz tells The Hollywood Reporter. Taking place 20 years in the future, Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) now grown son William (Ben Lewis) journeyed to Lian Yu to link up with a now middle-aged Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) for a mysterious reason that will be explored throughout the entire season (and future seasons as well). Those flash forwards: Viewers were left reeling when the end of the Arrow season seven premiere revealed that those island “flashback” scenes throughout the episode were actually flash forwards.

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