#escape from supermax

[beardedmrbean]

[oliverdant]

"He's Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he's arrested and his secret identity is revealed... They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It's like Alcatraz, and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name."

Writer David Goyer back in 2007 talks about project known Escape From Super Max

[oliverdant]

The idea of a superhero incarcerated among his enemies is certainly an exciting one, and would have offered a different one-main-location take on the tried-and-tested superhero movie formula. The basic idea here is a strong one – the superhero Green Arrow gets incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Specifically, he was put away for the assassination of a high-ranking government official, which was set up to look like his own handiwork. Subsequently, he’s locked up with a bunch of villains in the high security Super Max facility. He locked up many of the villains himself [gulp!]. As the title suggests, he doesn’t intend to stay, and ends up forming unlikely partnerships with his own rogues’ gallery as a means to find an escape. “They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape."