‘Arrow’ season 5: Stephen Amell clears up media-generated ‘movie’ confusion

Is there an “Arrow” movie, or is there not an “Arrow” movie? As William Shakespeare has himself said many times over, that is the question.

Well really, it hasn’t actually been a question at all. Nothing has been ever announced, and some media outlets are just going berserk over the idea since A) it’s a slow news weekend because of Memorial Day, and B) Stephen Amell is on a lengthy press tour promoting the latest “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie. Therefore, there’s a lot of opportunities to twist words and make mountains out of molehills.

Amell clarified everything on Twitter following some “rumors” saying that he’s never given a clear answer one way or another on the subject of a movie. This isn’t the first time that the media has sparked up a story during this press tour, either; recently, we saw Amell deny saying for certain that there was a huge four-part crossover on The CW this fall. While we think there’s a good chance of something happening, it hasn’t been confirmed by anyone just yet.

This is the thing that we’ve never quite understood: Why does there need to be an “Arrow” movie? Given that we’ve already got a rather-awesome show on The CW, shouldn’t that really be enough? There’s not exactly anything that a movie would give us that we don’t get on TV, especially since it gives you so much more time to tell stories. Remember here that if there ever was a movie, the production time would be so long that, unless there was some real trickery, we’d probably lose some episodes during the season.

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