We know that the Guy Gardner version of the Green Lantern will appear in the upcoming Superman, played by James Gunn favorite Nathan Fillion. It was also known that a Green Lantern-based television series would form part of the relaunched DCU.
Now, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn has officially announced the creative team behind the project. Dropping the news on Threads, the DC Studios co-chief revealed that Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, Lost) is being joined by Chris Mundy (Ozark) and DC comics author Tom King to drive the series.
These names were rumored to be at various stages of discussion for a while. Meanwhile, the WGA website has been mined by fans looking for information, and Bleeding Cool has reported that these names include Breannah Gibson (Young Love), Justin Britt-Gibson (Into The Badlands), and Vanessa Baden Kelly (Animal Kingdom).
The new series, known as Lanterns, will reportedly focus on Hal Jordan and John Stewart as they investigate a mystery that will help form the underlying story arc of this entire chapter of the DCU – Gods & Monsters – but will be mostly Earth-bound. Previous rumors talked HBO-level quality aims and inspiration from True Detective.
An alternative Green Lantern show was in development in the old DCEU. This was a Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim project with Seth Grahame-Smith set as showrunner.
Finn Wittrock & Jeremy Irvine were to star in the eight-episode series spanning decades, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott (Irvine), and in 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. Along the way, they would encounter a number of both new and familiar Lanterns.
Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, Sinestro, and Kilowog were expected to appear. Lee Toland Krieger (Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Superman & Lois) was set to helm the first two episodes. This project was canceled as Gunn and Safran took over DC Studios and began to clear out the old.
The new Lanterns show currently has no set release date.
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