ARROW: Showrunner Beth Schwartz discuss season 7

Last season’s Arrow ended in a real cliffhanger with Oliver turning himself in and being sent to prison for being the Green Arrow. We got to talk to the cast of Arrow about the repercussions of Oliver’s incarceration as well as what to expect in season 7 in the pressrooms this year at San Diego Comic Con.

We got to chat with most of the cast including Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen), David Ramsey (Diggle), Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity), Rick Gonzales (Rene), and Echo Kellum (Curtis) as well as director James Bamford and Showrunner Beth Schwartz.

Some highlights of our chat with Schwartz:

• She has been with the show since season 1, she has an unlimited supply of Arrow stories
• She’s excited about Batwoman in the Flash-Arrow-Supergirl crossover
• Oliver and Felicity are going to struggle this year with Oliver in prison and her identity known to everyone
• She loves Black Siren. This season she’s really pissed about Quentin’s death and will try to avenge him
• Star City is not doing well with the Green Arrow
• She’s excited that Roy is back – she wrote the original episode where his character first appeared and he will come back “in a different way” than we’ve seen him before

Arrow premieres on Monday, October 15th at 8/7c on The CW.