{"id":80688,"date":"2015-10-09T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=80688"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:30:37","slug":"arrow-season-4-damien-darhk-is-pure-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/arrow-season-4-damien-darhk-is-pure-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrow Season 4: Damien Darhk is &#8220;pure evil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following in the footsteps of Malcolm Merlyn, Slade Wilson and Ra&#8217;s Al Ghul, actor Neal McDonough (<em><strong>Captain America: The First Avenger<\/strong><\/em>) will be playing Damien Darhk in Season 4 of <em><strong>Arrow<\/strong><\/em>, former member of the League of Assassins and the leader of HIVE, who will be making a rather prominent appearance in Starling City. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cObviously with Neal, who is a blessing on the show, we\u2019re going older than the character from the comics,\u201d says showrunner Marc Guggenheim. \u201cIt\u2019s keeping with our normal philosophy, which is we use the comic-books as a starting off point, not an ending point.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Intriguingly, Damien will be different from any villain we&#8217;ve seen so far. &#8220;<span class=\"s1\">Our version of Damien is different from the other kind of big bads we\u2019ve had on the show before,&#8221; says Guggenheim.\u00a0&#8220;He\u2019s not as stentorian as Ra\u2019s, and he\u2019s not as unhinged as Slade Wilson. He probably has the closest parallel with Malcolm Merlyn, but I think he\u2019s got a malevolence to him that Malcolm did not have. Malcolm would basically always think, \u2019I\u2019m doing what I\u2019m doing to save the city,\u2019 whereas Damien is just pure evil. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;He\u2019s a form of evil we haven\u2019t seen on the show yet. In many ways we\u2019ve always approached our big bads as we wanted them to be the hero of their story. We wanted them not to be evil. This year we decided we\u2019re going to go different; we really want someone who is truly malevolent, and Neal just brings that home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Season 4 of <em>Arrow<\/em> will air on Sky1 from 14 October. For more news on the biggest TV shows, pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Guggenheim tells us what to expect from Arrow&#8217;s new big bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":80690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1718,7,3,207],"tags":[2508,4780],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Arrow-Season-4-Damien-Darhk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}