The IMDb web page for The CW’s Arrow is type of hilarious proper now.
As of this writing, the entry for Season 4’s premiere, titled “Inexperienced Arrow,” options visitor appearances by Hal “Inexperienced Lantern” Jordan, Carol “Star Sapphire” Ferris, Dick “Nightwing” Grayson and…Ethan Hawke?!
UPDATE, July 26, 2015, 8 P.M. ET: When supplied with this info, Arrow showrunner Marc Guggenheim mentioned, “That is not true. In any respect. You’ll be able to quote me.” So…that appears to be that for this absurd rumor. Assuming, in fact, the Web does not proceed to maintain it alive for some cause.
Properly, in all probability whoever posted that meant to say Connor Hawke, Oliver Queen’s son from the comics who’s rumored to be showing on this season of the TV present. Nonetheless, given the utter absurdity of this entry, we type of wish to consider that any individual simply mentioned “Hell with it. That man from Earlier than Dawn is in it, too. However as a personality, not the actor himself.”
Most followers know by now that IMDb, like Wikipedia, is user-edited and mainly anyone can put mainly something into an entry. Nonetheless, it has fewer lively customers than Wikipedia, and fewer who would take into account themselves knowledgeable sufficient to take away even a fairly-obviously-wrong “rumored” entry. And given its standing as an authority for many followers, this may often result in misunderstandings as to what info is and isn’t real.
One memorable occasion “revealed” Cobie Smulders’ character in Marvel’s The Avengers to be a Skrull. If true, they’re taking their time attending to the reveal.
Add to that Arrow followers’ lengthy historical past of deciding that their fan theories are canon till confirmed in any other case (what number of “John Diggle is John Stewart” tales did we get?), and you have got a usually messy, complicated state of affairs the place it is a protected guess that most people enhancing Arrow’s IMDb web page both do not know or do not care who shall be within the premiere and who will not.
Hell, even Matt Nable — who performed Ra’s al Ghul final season and isn’t a sequence common in Season 4 — will get a “credit score solely” credit score right here…one thing that is not sensible, on condition that it is unlikely he would get a credit score in an episode the place he does not seem, and even when he did, no one would understand it till they’d seen that episode…which no one has but as a result of it completed taking pictures two days in the past.
To additional illustrate the purpose, actress Enid-Raye Adams, who appeared in an episode of iZombie final season, is listed as enjoying Carol Ferris within the episode. That may make Carol nearly ten years older than Oliver Queen (which is throughout the realm of chance however appears unlikely).
There’s additionally this wonderfully-illustrative bit from Adams’ personal IMDb web page: “Enid-Raye Adams is a compelling and dynamic actor, mentioned somebody employed to jot down this biography.”
So why carry this all up? As a result of on Fb, Twitter and by way of e-mail, we have had inquiries in regards to the IMDb web page, both calling our consideration to it or asking us to confirm it. If one or two of these items turned out to be true, it will be shocking however not unprecedented. All of them, although? Borderline unimaginable.
That mentioned, we reached out to The CW about rumors that Spencer Record would play Connor Hawke greater than per week in the past and have had no response. That one was the primary of the long-shot rumors hooked up to the IMDb web page (and again then was truly known as Connor on the web page, not Ethan), predating the remainder of them by a few week, and appears the most certainly to be…effectively, if not true, no less than believable.
However nonetheless wildly unlikely when you think about that if The CW wished it eliminated in order that they may announce on their very own timetable, they — like anyone else — might edit the web page and have it eliminated.
Record is known as as Connor Hawke within the IMDb entry for the season’s second episode, which additionally lists John Diggle’s alternate alias because the long-running joke identify “Black Driver.”
Arrow returns to The CW, Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT, beginning in October.