The executives are looking forward to using the series format to explore and develop characters, in a way that the movie medium cannot. We don’t want the series to feel in any way like stepchildren or lesser than. Using the example of John Cena, who played violent character Peacemaker in Gunn’s feature The Suicide Squad, then starred in HBO Max’s spinoff Peacemaker, Safran said, “Anyone we cast as John Stewart and Hal Jordan, they will then cross over into the movie side of things. “This plays a really big role in leading into the main story we are telling across film and TV,” Safran said.Īnd unlike the casting of the previous actors, who had little chance of seeing themselves on the big screen, the actors who will play the Lanterns will also carry those roles into theaters. Gunn described it as a “huge HBO TV style event” while Safran said it was a very important and foundational series for their slate. With Gunn and Safran, a new direction is once again being explored. It’s unclear how much has been sunk into a Green Lantern series, but sources say it’s deep into seven figures. And it even had its leads cast in Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine.īut last year, before Gunn and Safran took over DC, even that was scrapped completely and all-new new direction decided upon (to focus on Black Green Lantern, Stewart). Seth Grahame-Smith was tapped to act as a showrunner and had written all eight episodes of the first season. But this ambitious (and expensive) incarnation was scaled back into a version that focused on just Alan Scott, threading a socially conscious backstory of being gay in more conservative times, and Guy Gardner, still macho after all these years. Some of the players, Marc Guggenheim among them, had worked on 2011’s ill-fated Green Lantern movie that starred Ryan Reynolds. One early version focused on original Lantern hero, Alan Scott, in a story set in the 1930s or 1940s, macho Lantern Guy Gardner in more modern times, and one set in the future featuring the character Sojourner Mullein. In the works since at least 2019, Green Lantern was touted to be the most expensive DC show ever made, with multiple stories sprawling across time and space. James Gunn Says Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor in 'Superman: Legacy' Will Be "Different From Anything You've Seen Before"
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