Arrow Season 6 Will See Major Change To Oliver

07/07/2017 08:48 pm EDT

The next time we see Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) on Arrow, the character will have undergone some major changes. According to Arrow executive product Marc Guggenheim, Ollie will be a changed man.

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"This season, we're trying to give you a different version of Oliver," Guggenheim told Entertainment Weekly. "Because of the journey he went on in season 5, he finally got to a place where he was ready to follow everyone's advice and discard the past and move on with his life."

After going through all of the trials and tribulations Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra) put him through, Queen is going to have a general change in the aura surrounding him come the season six premiere.

"The Oliver Queen that you'll meet in 601, he's still the Oliver you know and sometimes love, but he has a different sense of himself…" reflected Guggenheim. "In season 6, I think you'll see Oliver giving the people in his life the advice for a change."

Guggenheim went on to explain that after Oliver has been through ten years of hell — five as a vigilante and the five prior to that on Lian Yu — he's interested in seeing how Oliver progresses as a mentor.

"He's been through five years of being this superhero and he went through five years of hell before that, so he's got 10 years of very heavy experience to start to bring to bare," Guggenheim said. "That's something we're interested in seeing more of a mentoring Oliver as the various people in his life face their challenges."

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) 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, he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer-science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen (Willa Holland), Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and meta-human Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy).

Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his "family".

Based on the characters from DC, ARROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("The Flash," "Supergirl"), Marc Guggenheim ("DC's Legends of Tomorrow," "Eli Stone"), Wendy Mericle ("Desperate Housewives," "Eli Stone"), Andrew Kreisberg ("The Flash," "Eli Stone," "Warehouse 13") and Sarah Schechter ("The Flash," "DC's Legends of Tomorrow").

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