The CW Developing Female-Centric ‘Arrow’ Spin-Off

The CW is developing a female-centric Arrow spin-off with Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy.

The yet-to-be titled series is getting a backdoor pilot during the eighth and final season of Stephen Amell’s Arrow, which premieres next month. It’s being written by Beth Schwartz, Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship and Oscar Balderrama.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the Arrow spin-off would focus on Katherine McNamara’s Mia Smoak and the two Canaries — Katie Cassidy’s Laurel Lance and Juliana Harkavy’s Dinah Drake. The spin-off would have to take place years after the present-day events of Arrow as McNamara’s Mia Smoak is the focus of the show’s flash-forwards, taking place in the year 2040.

Arrow season eight will lead into the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. The Arrowverse crossover will span two quarters and consist of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman. It will launch with three episodes in December before concluding with two additional episodes in January.

Here is the official synopsis for the final season of Stephen Amell’s Arrow:

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice. As the Green Arrow, Oliver successfully saved his city with the help of his team including former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer-science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), former protégé Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez), metahuman Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy), brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum) and Earth-2 Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy). In the wake of discovering what his future holds, Oliver will find himself pit against his most challenging battle yet, one that will leave the multiverse hanging in the balance. In Arrow’s final season, Oliver Queen is forced to confront the reality of what it means to be a hero.

Arrow stars Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Echo Kellum, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy, Kirk Acevedo, Sea Shimooka, and Katie Cassidy Rodgers.

Arrow season 8 premieres on October 15, 2019, on The CW.