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Marc Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is known for creating Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and Tales of Arcadia, and writing Green Lantern and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
Marc Guggenheim is a prolific TV and comic book creator, known for Arrow, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Trollhunters. He was born in 1970 in New York and has two siblings, Eric and David, who are also writers.
- January 1, 1
- Producer, Writer, Director
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Marc Guggenheim
Learn about Marc Guggenheim, an Emmy Award–winning writer and producer for TV, film, comics, and games. Find out about his latest book, In Any Lifetime, a sci-fi romance about parallel worlds.
Marc Guggenheim is a producer and writer of Arrow, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Trollhunters. He was born in 1970 in Long Island, New York, and is married to Tara Butters.
- September 24, 1970
- Overview
- Arrow's Best Episodes
- 1: "Pilot," episode 101
- 2: "Honor thy Father," episode 102
- 3: "Lone Gunman," episode 103
- 4: "Year's End," episode 109 (midseason finale)
- 5: "Trust, But Verify," episode 111
- 6: "The Odyssey," episode 114
- 7: "Salvation," episode 118
- 8: "Sacrifice," episode 123 (Season 1 finale)
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By Jolie Lash
Updated: Jan 28, 2020 6:09 pm
Posted: Jan 28, 2020 6:00 pm
When a "Crisis on Infinite Earths" shook the Arrowverse, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) made the ultimate sacrifice and died saving the multiverse. While Earth-Prime will go on, the loss of the Emerald Archer means the end of Arrow's story on The CW. On Tuesday, January 28, it's time for Arrow's "Fadeout" – the final episode in an eight-season journey that began on a not-quite deserted island and traveled to Star City, across the globe, to other earths and other times, and beyond.
Co-creator, longtime executive producer, and co-writer of the series finale, Marc Guggenheim was less than 24 hours from viewing the final mix of the show when he spoke with IGN, and he shared what he hopes Arrow's legacy will be.
"I would like to think, in my most optimistic or most positive moments, that we gave a jolt in the arm to superhero television in general, that when Arrow [came] along, it had been a while since there was a superhero television show. Kind of the way X-Files gave a jolt in the arm to science fiction and genre on television, I feel like we sort of gave a jolt in the arm to the languishing genre of superheroes on television," Guggenheim told IGN. "So, that's the thing I'm most proud of. Quite frankly, I'm most proud of us just simply not screwing it up. Translating a comic book to live action, particularly nine years ago when we were trying to do it, was really challenging and very, very daunting and Greg [Berlanti, Arrowverse executive producer] and I had just come off the Green Lantern experience and there are far more examples of people getting it wrong than people getting it right, and just the fact that it wasn't silly was... that felt like an achievement to us."
Editor's note: This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Guggenheim: "So, the first, I thought, was the opening moments of the pilot because they really established that the show was big. I felt like those opening moments that David Nutter directed really captured the feature quality, cinematic scope that we were going for."
The action sequences in this episode, directed by David Barrett, Guggenheim said, "proved that we could do big action sequences on an episodic schedule and an episodic budget, which, at the time, was a real open question. I remember after we delivered the pilot, Warner Bros. called us into their offices to basically say, 'The pilot's amazing. Our p...
Guggenheim: "Item No. 3 is, of course, Felicity's introduction in 103. And, sort of the sub-moment for that is I remember viscerally when I first saw [Emily Bett Rickards'] audition. Auditions are all posted online, and [when] I first saw her audition, I remember, not quite running, but certainly fast walking down to [Executive Producer 2012-2018] ...
Guggenheim: "Believe it or not, despite it being the midseason finale, the reason that is memorable to me is that apart from the pilot, every single episode up to that point had gone through reshoots. We had to reshoot at least a scene per episode and in some cases more. So, getting to episode 9, I remember watching the cut that John Dahl directed ...
Guggenheim: "… which is episode 111 that Nick Copus directed and Gabby Stanton wrote and it just, again, it just sort of felt like the show was finding another gear."
Guggenheim: "Episode 114 is one of my favorite episodes that we've ever done. It was the first of what became a tradition of – we call them all 'flashback episodes.' That's a little bit of a misnomer, it's more like, 'mostly-flashback episodes,' which flipped the ratio from present day to flashback. And John Behring directed that one, and it was li...
Guggenheim: "Episode 118 … was another episode directed by Nick Copus where the show just, again, felt like it found another gear. I remember just really loving that episode."
Guggenheim: "David Barrett directed it and it had this incredible scope. We destroyed Star City with an Earthquake (Editor's Note: it was called Starling City back then). We shot for 10 days. It had huge scope, but most importantly it had emotional resonance because we killed Tommy. And it was this creative risk that we took that really became a st...
Marc Guggenheim, who co-created Arrow and wrote the series finale, shares his picks for the most important episodes of the show. From the pilot to the end, he reveals the moments that shaped the Emerald Arrow's journey.
- Jolie Lash
Jun 22, 2023 · Q&A: Showrunner Marc Guggenheim Opens Up about the TV Series That Changed His Life…and Broke His Heart The “ARROW” creator goes in-depth about the iconic series that made him the person and storyteller he is and how rebooting it traumatized him in unexpected ways
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Dec 22, 2016 · Marc Guggenheim, executive producer of Trollhunters, talks about his involvement, influences, and challenges of the animated show created by Guillermo del Toro. He also pays tribute to the late Anton Yelchin, who voiced the protagonist Jim Lake Jr.
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