Arrow Season 5 Premiere Date, Villain Details, and More

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The show that really started it all for the CW will be back for at least one more season. The CW revealed plans for Arrow season 5 back in March, well ahead of this year"s upfronts. In fact, the CW renewed just about everything on the roster, including The Flash Season 3 and Legends of Tomorrow Season 2! Supergirl is joining the superhero party on the network, too, and there will even be a massive crossover between all four shows!

Arrow Season 5 Premiere Date

The CW hasn"t officially confirmed the Arrow Season 5 premiere date, but it happens at the same time every year. Arrow always premieres on the first Wednesday after New York Comic-Con in October. With that in mind, pencil in October 12th, 2016 as your Arrow Season 5 premiere date. If that changes, we"ll let you know.

Arrow Season 5 Villain

TV Line is at it again! Last year they were the first to report the early details of Damian Darhk joining the show, and they have the first word on what to expect from the Arrow Season 5 main villain, too. They report that they"re looking for someone named "James" (guess what? That"s almost never the real name!), who is "irrepressibly charming...a man on a mission."

Supposedly this character has a tragic backstory of his own, and he has some avenging to do. They"re looking for someone with some size and physicality, who could "just as easily shake your hand as your best friend or break your neck as your worst enemy and you never know which one is coming. Either way, hes more than capable of having a good time as he does it.

Stephen Amell added some clues while speaking to Variety. Ive heard that our big bad, our villain, is something that you can really only do once youre in the fifth, sixth or seventh season of a TV show, he said.

I have no clue who this character could be, or if he"ll feature in the present day, the flashbacks, or both. Although, I tell ya, I"d love to see this show mess with some Secret Six characters and have "James" turn out to be Thomas "Catman" Blake. Nah. Never happen, right?

If you have any ideas who this might be, hit us up in the comments.

Arrow Season 5 Flashbacks

One of the stumbling blocks for this year"s season has been the flashback sequences. But Arrow Season 5 would mark the fifth year of flashbacks, which would then have the show caught up to season one by the time we get to season six. So what will the flashbacks be in Arrow Season 5? I dont want to tip too much, Arrow showrunner Wendy Mericle told TV Line, but its a very good possibility that well finally find out how Oliver got that Bratva tattoo and how he learned to speak Russian.

Well, at least he won"t be on an island again.

Arrow Season 5 Cast and Crew

While season four isn"t even finished yet, we have the first bit of Arrow Season 5 casting news right now, courtesy of TV Line. I hope you like Echo Kellum as Michael Holt, because he has been upped to series regular status for next season. So, it"s a fairly safe bet that we"ll get to see his journey towards becoming something a little bit more like the Mr. Terrific of the comics begin soon-ish.

The series has been a little inconsistent during its fourth season, but has found its footing since the midseason break. Things can only get better in Arrow season 5, right?

Fresh off his stint as director on a very good episode of The Flash (our review of "The Runaway Dinosaur" is here), Kevin Smith wants to try his hand at Arrow Season 5 next year. He didn"t write "The Runaway Dinosaur" (that was Zack Stentz, who will serve as a consulting producer on The Flash Season 3), but it seems like he"d want to do that for Arrow.

Smith was responding to a comment on Stephen Amell"s Facebook page, where a fan suggested he work on an Arrow episode, and Amell agreed. So this is all talk right now, but given the positive response to his Flash episode, I wouldn"t be surprised to see Mr. Smith make a trip to Star City next year.

Earlier this year, Stephen Amell put out an informal statement on Facebook revealing that he"s under contract through 2019. So, while that"s not a confirmation of anything, it"s possible that after Arrow Season 5, there"s room for season 6 and season 7, too! But as he cautions, "That doesn"t mean Arrow will run that long, but if it does... I"ll be here." And after season 5, they have to be done with the flashbacks...hopefully.

We"ll update this with more Arrow Season 5 info as it becomes available.

Source: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/arrow/251849/arrow-season-5-premiere-date-villain-details-and-more