User blog comment:MakeShift/Arrow's new Big Bad has been revealed!/@comment-6331988-20140728225449/@comment-24034641-20140729032832

it won't be, you can tell by the build also that it isn't Liam Neeson, besides, if they did that, then it'd be connecting the show to the films, and it's already been confirmed that the series won't have any connection to the films.