Joker and Riddler in ‘The Green Arrow’

Writer Justin Marks spoke to MTV News about the upcoming DC Comics’ movie “The Green Arrow,” revealing that the title character will not be the most well known individual in the film. “Oh, we’ve got Lex Luthor in there,” said Marks. “I’m pretty sure Riddler gets his shot — Ed Nigma gets his moment.”

In the tentatively titled “Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max,” Oliver Queen (aka the Green Arrow) is unjustly locked up in a federal penitentiary for meta-humans and forced to rely on a whole bevy of villains to make his escape — villains like Luthor, Icicle and even the Joker.

But the best part of the movie, is the prison itself. “It’s a very, very awesome prison. I majored in architecture in college, and design is how I actually started in. For ‘Super Max,’ designing that prison, it had to be the kind of thing that was a character in and of itself,” Marks said. “We’re in a world where instead of just trying to contain a guy who’s really big, you’re trying to contain a guy who can — in the case of Icicle — who can freeze things. What kind of a cell would a guy like that need in order to have his powers neutralized? So to escape from Super Max they have got to go through the most elaborate heist we’ve ever seen, involving superpowers. Because the prison itself kind of has superpowers!”

Marks added that Queen won’t get a traditional origin story. “We do deal with his origin — he’s got a very interesting origin with a desert island and everything else — but we get to the core of Green Arrow not by showing where he starts but by pushing him into a key moment in his life where everything he has is lost, and he’s got to earn it all back,” he said. “I think for audiences it’s going to be a great way to get to know a new character.“