While The CW’s Arrow is due to come to a close with an eighth and final season later this year, it looks as if another new show is on the way for the shared Arrowverse ream.

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, The CW has tentative plans for a future-set Arrow spin-off based on the series’ various Canaries. The current plan is for the show to be headlined by Katherine McNamara as Mia Queen – the daughter of Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak – with McNamara joined by Juliana Harkavy’s Dinah Drake and Katie Cassidy’s Laurel Lance.

At present, the new show doesn’t have an official title, but the series will get a backdoor pilot of sorts during Arrow’s eighth season. Beth Schwartz, Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship and Oscar Balderrama are on writing duties for said pilot, with the four then joining Greg Berlanti as executive producers on this new show should it indeed get the all-clear to become a full series.

Seemingly, the action of this spin-off will be set in 2046 – a time already explored in the flash-forward moments of Arrow’s previous season. In that timeline, Dinah Drake heads up a network of crime fighters based around the Canary moniker.

It could well be that Joseph David-Jones’s Connor Hawke, Ben Davis’ William Clayton, and Andrea Sixtos’ Zoe Ramirez may also end up as regulars on this show, giving how they were key figures in the previous future landscape of the Arrowverse.

As ever, expect more on this as we get it.

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