ARROW: Director James Bamford dishes on 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 Bamford:

• He was pretty cagey about providing any spoilers
• He felt it was important to have Stephen Amell look into the camera and “break the 4th wall” in the finale, even though it wasn’t something the show normally does
• Oliver’s life in prison is very different from anything we’ve seen before – he’s potentially in there with a lot of his previous enemies
• The rest of the team is dealing with Oliver’s absence and the loss of their secret lives
• The show will be going to new levels of grit

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