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Kevin Smith Talks Onomatopoeia And Wanting To Write For Arrow

Kevin Smith has been talking about wanting to write for Arrow for a while now, specifically bringing the villain he created, Onomatopoeia, to the small screen. He talked to Den of Geek about it and just how he would do the characters signature style.

First, on whether or not it's going to happen:

Oh my god, I would love that so much", Smith enthused. "I've not heard from anybody over there, even though I've talked about it in the press quite a bit and stuff. I know I'm going back to The Flash, first week of September, to direct episode 7 of season 3. Still haven't heard anything back from Arrow. You know, I wish, it would be amazing because I would love to write and direct Onomatopoeia in the show. Um, but I know they're doing – what is it? – Wild Dog this year, as well as Vigilante, so maybe they're just like 'we don't need you', or whatever. But, at the moment, anyone over there raises a flag; I'm like 'please, let me in!' That'd be fun as fuck.

The character is known for only saying the sounds that he makes happen, like the snap of a twig and he'd say "snap"… in other words, onomatopoeia. Smith shared how he would approach that for television:

Yeah, I've figured out a way to do it that is kinda bad-ass", Smith told me, "and also connects to comics more or less. So instead of just doing the actual sound – which to me, in the real world, would be like the dude from Police Academy making noises with his mouth – he'll just have little cards. Business cards that have typewritten words of whatever the fuck. So instead of him saying 'blam', you'd find this card on your desk and turn around and 'blam', he'd shoot you and stuff like that. Which I think is a little more chilly, you know, for doing it in live action. On a comic book page, those big word balloons with a tiny word in it were so fucking sweet. It looks beautifully graphic, like, at the same time it creates an image of 'this is weird'. But I don't know if audibly making noises would ever work in the real world, so I think those cards would be bad-ass, man. So [you read] 'slit', and you're like "slit?", and then all of a sudden you turn around he cuts your fucking throat and dude just cocks his head Michael Myers style and watches you go down. So yeah, I've obviously thought about it a little bit, but it would be cool to do. Hopefully, hopefully they'll tap me.

The director / writer seems to be all-in on the idea of working in the DC/CW Universe even if not on Arrow:

Even if they don't, maybe I could do it on Flash, or Legends Of Tomorrow, or now Supergirl as well. There's a couple of shows there

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