Arrow Season 7: 10 Easter Eggs & References You Might Have Missed In 'Inmate 4587'
7. The Plot
Arrow's Season 7 premiere revolved around Oliver Queen being locked up in a super-maximum security prison with some of the foes that he was responsible for putting in there. If that plot sounds familiar to you, it's because it is incredibly similar to the plot of a scrapped Green Arrow film.
Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max was the title of a script penned by Justin Marks and The Dark Knight trilogy's David S. Goyer in 2008. The film was due to revolve around a wrongly-imprisoned Oliver Queen, who was locked up in a prison just like the one we saw on Arrow, alongside a number of DC's most notorious villains. Unfortunately, the planned film never came to fruition.
In many ways, Arrow's current season is an adaptation of that story, and that is the ultimate tribute.