Orwellian Overwatch good fit for Arrow writer Marc Guggenheim! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interview

Today's Guest: Marc Guggenheim, writer of The CW's 'Arrow' and author of the novel Overwatch.

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Marc Guggenheim, writer of The CW's 'Arrow' and author of the novel Overwatch, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of DC Comics characters such as Black Lightning, Bouncing Boy, Red Tornado, and the Wonder Twins patiently waiting their turn to be selected by The CW so they can be considered cool, too… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I don’t know what it is with guys who write for modern TV dramas but they can imagine government conspiracies and intrigue where I just see incompetence, waste and featherbedding.

Take Marc Guggenheim, for example.

By day, he is on the writing staff of the most excellent superhero drama, “Arrow,” on The CW. It takes place in a world of corporate intrigue, government corruption and, oh, yeah, this guy with superhuman physical attributes and an astounding talent with a bow and arrow.
MARC GUGGENHEIM podcast excerpt: "There hasn't been any pressure on 'Arrow' (to follow the comic book). From jump, we've always said, 'This is our version of Green Arrow. It's going to take inspiration from the comics but it's not going to follow the comics religiously.' Part of the advantage of doing Green Arrow instead of Batman or Superman is that Oliver Queen's origin is not as set in stone as Spider-Man's, Batman's or Superman's. We have license to deviate from the comics. What we often do is use the comics and the expectations they create against the viewer. We use the comic books to set up the expectation and then we subvert the expectation."

You can LISTEN to this interview with ARROW TV writer MARC GUGGENHEIM, author of OVERWATCH, by clicking the audio player above!

By night – and weekends, I suspect – Guggenheim is now a writer of fiction, having just publish