Season 8 (Arrow)

​​​​​​ was renewed for an eighth and final season by The CW on January 31, 2019. It will premiere on October 15, 2019.

Synopsis
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice. As the Green Arrow, Oliver successfully saved his city with the help of his team including former soldier John Diggle, computer-science expert Felicity Smoak, former protégé Roy Harper, street-savvy Rene Ramirez, metahuman Dinah Drake, brilliant inventor Curtis Holt and Earth-2 Laurel Lance. In last season's finale, in the wake of discovering what his future holds, Oliver must leave his friends and family behind him and will find himself pit up against his most challenging battle yet, one that will leave the multiverse hanging in the balance. In Arrow’s final season, Oliver Queen is forced to confront the reality of what it means to be a hero.

Main cast

 * Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
 * David Ramsey as John Diggle/Spartan
 * Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez
 * Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake
 * Joseph David-Jones as Connor Hawke
 * Katherine McNamara as Mia Smoak
 * Ben Lewis as Older William Clayton
 * Charlie Barnett as Older John Diggle, Jr.
 * Katie Cassidy Rodgers as Laurel Lance/Black Canary

Recurring cast

 * Andrea Sixtos as Older Zoe Ramirez
 * LaMonica Garrett as Mar Novu/The Monitor

Confirmed plot points

 * This season will serve as a "lead-up" towards while the final two episodes will deal with the fallout from the crossover.
 * Oliver will travel around the world this season.
 * There will be a new Green Arrow suit that has significant similarities to the original Arrow suit.
 * Susanna Thompson will return as Moira Queen for the season premiere.
 * The first seven episodes leading up to are a "love letter" to the fans with each episode highlighting some of the most memorable moments from the previous seasons.
 * The first and second episode of the season will be a homage to the first and third season respectively.
 * Josh Segarra and Colin Donnell will return this season in undisclosed roles.
 * Oliver will have another partner in his adventures that isn't the Monitor.
 * Laurel will get a new Black Canary suit and a new teammate.
 * This season will be "like a buddy cop movie".
 * Oliver will attempt to be funnier and try to crack more jokes.
 * Rene will begin the path to becoming mayor of the Glades, as seen in the flashforwards in Season 7.
 * The eighth episode will take place during the 2019 crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths.
 * Despite not being asked to return as a series regular, Colton Haynes will appear in the final season.
 * Tatsu Yamashiro will appear in episode 2.
 * The season 8 premiere takes place one week after the events of.
 * John Barrowman will appear in some capacity.
 * Stephen Amell and David Ramsey have said they both got the ending they wanted for their characters.

Trivia

 * Since the first season in which she was a recurring cast member, this is Emily Bett Rickards' first and only season where she's not a series regular due to a conflict with her involvement in the limited summer production of the off-Broadway play Reborning.
 * Season 8 will feature the directional debut from Katie Cassidy Rodgers, who directs the third episode, while the sixth episode will be David Ramsey's second episode he directs.
 * This is the only season to feature new series regulars Katherine McNamara, Ben Lewis, Joseph David-Jones, and new cast member Charlie Barnett.
 * Unlike the previous seasons, the Arrowverse annual crossover will be part of the main storyline.
 * Marc Guggenheim returned to serve as co-showrunner at the time Beth Schwartz was on maternity leave.