Green Lantern (HBO Max)

[ZariusTwo]

HBO Max greenlight a ten episode run of Green Lantern from Berlanti Productions, with Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Guggenheim attached as writers. Smith will be showrunner



https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/green-lantern-series-hbo-max-1234798860

[Autbot_Benz]

ugh not Marc Guggenheim he nearly Ruined arrow with his **** writing and catering to the Olicity crowd.

Hoping its Hal and John Stewart

[ZariusTwo]

ugh not Marc Guggenheim he nearly Ruined arrow with his **** writing and catering to the Olicity crowd.

Hoping its Hal and John Stewart

Deadline confirms the line up includes:

Guy Gardner
Simon Baz
Jessica Cruz
Alan Scott

https://deadline.com/2020/10/seth-grahame-smith-marc-guggenheim-green-lantern-tv-series-hbo-max-1234594615/

[Autbot_Benz]

Deadline confirms the line up includes:

Guy Gardner
Simon Baz
Jessica Cruz
Alan Scott

https://deadline.com/2020/10/seth-grahame-smith-marc-guggenheim-green-lantern-tv-series-hbo-max-1234594615/

guess they wanna save Hal and John for the movie universe

Alan Scott — Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man representation check

Also because for some reason Guggenheim hates the word green. The show is called Lantern just like Arrow

[TurtleTitan97]

Deadline confirms the line up includes:

Guy Gardner
Simon Baz
Jessica Cruz
Alan Scott

https://deadline.com/2020/10/seth-grahame-smith-marc-guggenheim-green-lantern-tv-series-hbo-max-1234594615/

I'd rather switch out Alan Scott for Kyle Rayner just so the former could appear on Stargirl, but otherwise this is a solid lineup.

Tho the fact that Marc Guggenheim is involved has me somewhat concerned.

[Leo656]

YAY, Guy Gardner!

BOOOOO, "Arrow-verse" people running it.

Tie-breaker: BOOOOOOO, Alan Scott is NOT GAY. FAKE New 52 Alan Scott was gay. Get a clue, you pricks.

[Andrew NDB]

Jessica and Baz. In other words, Geoff Johns wants his residuals.

[Andrew NDB]

I was just telling someone, "How much do you want to bet that Alan Scott is only there because they're going to go with the gay version of him?" then I re-read the original article here closer. Jeeze... just terrible. Now Gay Alan is going to be reinforced on everything and everyone.

Alan Scott is the original. A husband, a father (and of 2 super popular superheroes... Jade and Obsidian).

Jessica and Baz there for diversity and women empowerment (and again, Geoff Johns' residuals), Alan for LGBTQ, and Guy there as the lone straight white male presence. And how much do you want to bet (as a result) they're going to make him act super dopey and goofy, and constantly be the butt of the others' jokes?

[Leo656]

TO BE FAIR...... that's always Gardner's role anyway, to a point. :lol:

EXCEPT that in the comics no matter what a jerkoff or numbskull he is or how badly he's sometimes portrayed as the dumbest guy in the room, he always, ALWAYS comes through in the clutch. You go back over some of the biggest events or stories or threats in DC history for 30+ years, and Guy either dives in headfirst to take on the bad guys who make everybody else piss their spandex panties in fear without batting an eyelash - Doomsday, Hal/Parallax, etc. - OR swoops in to make the last-second save when everything seems lost (Eclipso).

Sure, he's a bozo sometimes. But the key to his gimmick has always been that he ALWAYS comes through when it matters. He's not JUST an abrasive idiot. He's "The Fist of the Guardians". And when he can't rely on his super-powers he gets by on sheer force of will.

He out-razzled Sinestro's "ghost" for control of Sinestro's yellow power ring, for god's sake. The guy the ring was created for in the first place. Gardner took it away (AND conned Lobo out of it in the process, although outsmarting Lobo isn't much of a trick :lol:) because he simply wouldn't be denied. Hell, when he died during the "Imperiex War", he fought his way back from Hell. Literal HELL.

He can't JUST be presented as an idiot or the character doesn't work. What he is, is the personification of sheer, undeniable willpower, more so than ANY of the other Lanterns. No matter the situation presented, he always finds a way to win because he simply doesn't know how to lose and won't accept it as an option. He has to win. "Because I'm Guy freakin' Gardner!"

I would love - LOVE - a sincere and proper live-action portrayal. But as you said... I suspect they have ulterior motives and I absolutely do not trust them. He'll be there JUST to be the dumb comic relief and the guy who's always wrong. That's it. And that sucks.

[Andrew NDB]

ugh not Marc Guggenheim he nearly Ruined arrow with his **** writing and catering to the Olicity crowd.

He did ruin Arrow, but not because of "Olicity." "Olicity" was bad because the writers kept making Felicity insufferably irritating at every turn after they actually got together.

TO BE FAIR...... that's always Gardner's role anyway, to a point. :lol:

I don't know... I mean Gardner definitely was in the 80s and 90s... but post-Rebirth, they made Gardner kind of a badass in the GLC books. Lost the bowl cut, dropped the goofiness (for the most part).

[Leo656]

He shouldn't have lost the bowl cut. I'm living proof that you can be godlike while looking marginally ridiculous. :lol:

But yeah, the ONE thing I can never take away from Geoff Johns is that he did a lot to restore Guy's place of prominence in the DCU. He really "got" the character, for the most part, and took away a little bit of the "Flanderization" that lesser writers sometimes attached to him.

Even in the 90s, though, Guy was already very quietly the best character in the DC lineup. "Guy Gardner Reborn", "Eclipso: The Darkness Within", the first 16 AMAZING issues of his solo series (and even JUST "Yesterday's Sins" is golden if a person couldn't be bothered to read the other 12 issues for some dumb reason), Jurgens's run on "Justice League America"... Guy was on a VERY hot run until editorial mandate turned him into "Warrior".

Giffen's Justice League International was responsible for a lot of the "damage", although at times in that book he was still given more depth and was always prominently featured. But it was in the books I cited above where Guy finally was presented as having his sh*t together and being not only capable, but someone you might not LIKE having on your side, but a guy you'd NEED on your side. And in a lot of the cases where they showed him being at odds with other JLA members, or Jordan, truth is Guy was 100% right in those situations, most of the time. He may have handled it like a petulant child, but he was right on principle almost every time. He even gave up his GL ring when he really didn't have to, just because he felt like he had to abide by his word. That's what a real man does.

Eclipso was a huge coming-out for Guy's character. That whole entire Summer, man. Getting kicked out of the Corps, getting "Eclipsed", being told to f*ck off by the JLA, taking it on himself to swipe Sinestro's Power Ring, coming back to save Superman (and in turn everyone else) from Eclipso when everyone had already told him to f*ck off, saving the day and - as usual - not even getting any appreciation whatsoever proved the character's heart, to me. He was always one of the best kinds of heroes - one who does the right thing because it's The Right Thing, even when NOBODY cares enough to appreciate it. Sure, he loves the accolades... but he hardly ever gets any, and still, even when his "friends" treat him like sh*t, he saves their asses anyway. Even Superman, back when they barely got along. Y'all know I love Superman, but he was often much of a dick to Gardner back then and Guy was forever jumping in for him anyway. He even took the first punch from Doomsday. Seeing Guy and Superman become genuine friends much later on was nice, because it showed that they'd each grown a lot as people.

People always mark out for Batman for being the "most human" of all the DC heroes, but I disagree. It's always been Guy Gardner. He's the everyman, the true "hard luck hero". Always well-meaning but always misunderstood, more reasons than most to just say "f*ck it" and turn villain, but always does the right thing because The Right Thing is important, more so than appreciation or accolades or even the respect of your peers. He often never had ANY of those things. But he never quits, never gives up, and never lets the bad guys win.

The good ones know how to illustrate all of that with the way they write Guy Gardner. The hacks just make him a mouthy jerk. But he's ALWAYS had that depth and those layers. It's just easier to make him a stereotpyical Dumb Jock. But guys like Jurgens, Dixon, Giffen and yes, even Geoff Johns understand who he is and how to present him to his full potential.

I have a lot of love for Kyle and Hal and always will. But to me, Guy will always be the One True Green Lantern. He's far from a perfect person but that's what makes him such a fantastic and relatable character.

[Andrew NDB]

But yeah, the ONE thing I can never take away from Geoff Johns is that he did a lot to restore Guy's place of prominence in the DCU.

That's more Peter Tomasi than Geoff Johns. In addition to being the GL group editor, Tomasi led the GLC books that brought Guy front and center as writer.

I have a lot of love for Kyle and Hal and always will. But to me, Guy will always be the One True Green Lantern. He's far from a perfect person but that's what makes him such a fantastic and relatable character.

As opposed to Hal. Whose character is his lack of character.

[Autbot_Benz]

Green Lantern: HBO Max Series Reportedly Casting Black Woman as New Main Character

HBO Max is reportedly casting a Black woman as the new main character for the upcoming Green Lantern series. The Direct obtained some new information about the upcoming project. While Green Lantern will feature a host of established Lantern characters including Guy Gardner, Simon Baz, Alan Scott, and Jessica Cruz, a new name has popped up. In their report, a character named Bree Jarta is being used as a codename for the Black female character. As a half-human and half-alien Lantern, it would seem she’ll have to grapple with those multiple identities. There are also hints that she would be partnered with Gardner during the series and that would inject some familiarity for longtime fans. (It should be indicated that The Direct notes this isn’t newly-minted Lantern Sojourner Mullein.)

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/green-lantern-hbo-max-black-woman-main-character-reportedly-casting/

[Andrew NDB]

So Alan Scott is all about being a gay character in danger from homophobia, Bree Jarta is all about being an oppressed woman of color dealing with racism, and Guy Gardner is all about being a dumb "alpha male" white guy.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/green_lantern/green-lantern-character-breakdowns-reveal-new-details-on-guy-gardner-bree-jarta-alan-scott-a180225#gs.m2ogxo

https://cosmicbook.news/green-lantern-guy-gardner-character-description?fbclid=IwAR3TIaxAqU9XMNDXAFgZiJzEfVeiV o0MKY40gebqW13fFGBCJyvCxi0BCjY

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

So Alan Scott is all about being a gay character in danger from homophobia, Bree Jarta is all about being an oppressed woman of color dealing with racism, and Guy Gardner is all about being a dumb "alpha male" white guy.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/green_lantern/green-lantern-character-breakdowns-reveal-new-details-on-guy-gardner-bree-jarta-alan-scott-a180225#gs.m2ogxo

https://cosmicbook.news/green-lantern-guy-gardner-character-description?fbclid=IwAR3TIaxAqU9XMNDXAFgZiJzEfVeiV o0MKY40gebqW13fFGBCJyvCxi0BCjY

And not one single person here was surprised. :tlol:

[CyberCubed]

Buzzwords these days are, "black," "gay," "lesbian," "minority," "racial diversity," and "transgender."

You can't have a show without following all of these things these days.

[Leo656]

I've wanted a new live-action Superman TV show for 25 years, and now we're getting one and I absolutely do not care.

I've wanted a Green Lantern show for almost as long, and now we're getting one, and I absolutely do not care.

Guy Gardner is my favorite Green Lantern, and I've wanted to see him in live-action forever... and again, I absolutely do not care.

Supposedly, I'm the prime target for these shows, the guy who should be the most excited of all. And not only am I not excited, I'm angry. I wish these things didn't even exist.

Terrible. Ever since "Smallville", with this sh*t. With these terrible, off-brand versions of characters presented for the message board generation instead of actual fans.

Trash, all of it. Except the first season of Flash, that was somehow pretty good. But I'm quite certain by now that was a complete accident. Like most good thigs.

[Autbot_Benz]

I've wanted a new live-action Superman TV show for 25 years, and now we're getting one and I absolutely do not care.

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Superman and Lois dogged a small bullet they fired this crazy SJW chick writer who wanted more diversity in the show and tried to get Martha and Jonathan race changed to black.

[Leo656]

I heard. I'm pretty glad I don't care about what promises to be a terrible show anyway. They might have dodged one bullet but I'm sure the clip is loaded.

Possibly the biggest Superman fan alive (and a huge Green Lantern fan as well), and you'd have to pay ME a substantial amount of money to watch either of these upcoming abortions. Something is off. And it ain't me.

[Andrew NDB]

I've wanted a new live-action Superman TV show for 25 years, and now we're getting one and I absolutely do not care.

That is sad to consider, now that you mention it.

[Barkworm]

Is this new Superman show going to be like Lois and Clark from the 90s? The title sure makes it seem that way.

[Andrew NDB]

Is this new Superman show going to be like Lois and Clark from the 90s? The title sure makes it seem that way.

On paper. But I suspect with a whole lot of added... let's just call it a modern day "sensibility." From a select bunch.

[NinjaPug]

Guy Gardner cast - https://deadline.com/2021/04/finn-wittrock-green-lantern-hbo-max-series-guy-gardner-1234747347/


Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern in HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television

Written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith, Green Lantern reinvents the classic DC property through a story spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott, and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.

Wittrock’s Guy Gardner/Green Lantern is a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable.

[Autbot_Benz]

Show is being overhauled and will now focus on John Stewart

HBO Max’s long-gestating Green Lantern TV series is changing gears.

The drama that has been in the works since late 2019 will now focus on John Stewart, one of DC’s first Black superheroes. The series, from exec producer Greg Berlanti, was to originally have revolved around Guy Gardner and Alan Scott and had already cast Finn Wittrock (Ratched) and Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) as the respective Green Lanterns.

As part of the creative overhaul, writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has departed the series after completing scripts for a full season of eight episodes. Sources say Grahame-Smith, who signed on as writer and showrunner a year after Green Lantern was announced, chose to leave the project after weathering a number of regime changes at HBO Max, its parent company, producers Warner Bros. Television and now DC Comics.


The decision to refocus Green Lantern arrives at a pivotal time for DC. Sources say the character of John Stewart was off the table to producers who envisioned the show as focusing on the first Green Lantern, the openly gay Alan Scott, and Guy Gardner as well as a “multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.” With DC Comics topper Walter Hamada’s recent exit, a decision was made to start over and build the show around John Stewart, the character who first appeared in the early 1970s and was modeled after Sidney Poitier. It’s worth noting that the Green Lantern creative overhaul has nothing to do with news this week that James Gunn and Peter Safran have been tapped to lead film, TV and animation at DC Studios in a role similar to what Kevin Feige is doing at Marvel. (Gunn and Safran don’t start their new jobs until Nov. 1.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greg-berlanti-green-lantern-series-hbo-max-redeveloped-1235248929/#recipient_hashed=52991d7e2ca940c88f140fd9b7f85435 dde81ca700d8a925604c9ce9541f3e30&recipient_salt=6e7de77df4c3201f74a9ffbafb3d7113a91 85dd4a684abf53b0f0740c6f56c40

[Andrew NDB]

Maybe there's hope for this yet.

[IMJ]

Maybe there's hope for this yet.

I know you are a bigger GL guy than I am, but I think it's safe to say that we are both really looking forward to this....

[Andrew NDB]

I know you are a bigger GL guy than I am, but I think it's safe to say that we are both really looking forward to this....

Well, now I am a bit. Sloughing off the fat of the other "diverse" and least interesting GLs only created in the last 8 years (and doubtlessly a Stifler-like Guy Gardner and troubles manufactured around them retconning Alan Scott being a gay man in the 1940s) and just focusing it around John Stewart? That might be a sound choice.

lol... this headline: https://cosmicbook.news/gay-green-lantern-canceled-hbo-max?fbclid=IwAR17w6R72HpaVbz0cVlTpcvzoX_ok3TNMt9OJ fvjymnwEvZhGqSsz6yrOYs

[CyberCubed]

Slashing the budget in half is a good thing? For a character that's going to be in space, using CG to create all his moves with the ring, and interacting with aliens?

[Andrew NDB]

Slashing the budget in half is a good thing? For a character that's going to be in space, using CG to create all his moves with the ring, and interacting with aliens?

But now it's just one guy with a ring, not a group of guys with rings. Trust me, I'm pretty sure the money on the original version wasn't going to the right places.

[Leo656]

A more focused approach isn't bad, but John Stewart kinda sucks so I can't say I care incredibly much more.

And not that this show would've been great or anything, but once again Guy Gardner gets his live-action debut cancelled. I swear that character is just plain cursed.

[Andrew NDB]

A more focused approach isn't bad, but John Stewart kinda sucks so I can't say I care incredibly much more.

Still, way better than what they were going to do. Me, I'd love a post-ET Kyle Rayner show. Have him rebuilding the Corps, maybe with flashbacks to the "Good Old Days" with Hal. But I can get behind a John Stewart show. He wasn't created 5 minutes ago by hacks.

And not that this show would've been great or anything, but once again Guy Gardner gets his live-action debut cancelled. I swear that character is just plain cursed.

I'm sure Guy will pop in at some point. If the show lasts long enough.

Also, to state the obvious, the repositioning of John Stewart front and center in this show when previously he wasn't even allowed to be considered for it by WB... means that the Geoff Johns GLC movie is completely dead.

[Autbot_Benz]

https://i.imgur.com/X32pIkQ.jpeg

[Andrew NDB]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/josh-brolin-wont-be-doing-lanterns/

And Brolin is 56, going to be 58 by the time this ever airs. You know what this means, right? Old Man Hal Jordan, with everybody else (probably the newer multi-racial Geoff Johns GLs) being the younger, hipper GLs showing us how much cooller they are than the old man.

[Autbot_Benz]

https://i.imgur.com/LsFoomi.jpeg

HBO‘s DC series Lanterns has found its Hal Jordan.

Emmy winner Kyle Chandler is set to play the legendary member of the Green Lantern Corps in the series, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The show will be the first series role for the Friday Night Lights star since Showtime’s 2022 drama Super Pumped.

[Andrew NDB]

Ridiculous. Hal Jordan will now be the old fogey to the hip diverse younger Lanterns, is how this is shaping up. *

*: I'll take it back if they go the Parallax route and turn him evil.

[Autbot_Benz]

https://i.imgur.com/MHeNETx.jpeg

Aaron Pierre is officially joining the Green Lantern series at HBO, Variety has learned.

Pierre will star as John Stewart in the series, which is titled “Lanterns.” It was previously reported that Kyle Chandler was in talks for the role of Hal Jordan. According to sources, a number of actors were considered for the role of Stewart, including Stephan James and Damson Idris.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/lanterns-aaron-pierre-john-stewart-1236173148/

[Andrew NDB]

Looks like a "pretty boy" version of John Stewart but OK, let's see.

[Autbot_Benz]

https://i.imgur.com/FcqQFrz.png


James Gunn Confirms the casting

[Autbot_Benz]

EXCLUSIVE: Ulrich Thomsen (Counterpart, The Blacklist) has been tapped to recur in the HBO, WBTV and DC Studios series Lanterns as DC supervillain Sinestro.


https://deadline.com/2025/01/ulrich-thomsen-sinestro-hbo-lanterns-1236267158/

[Autbot_Benz]

first photo of Hal and John in civilian clothes with lantern rings on their hands

https://i.imgur.com/9SVBxj1.jpeg

[IMJ]

Cosmic Superheroes. On Earth. Again.

[ZariusTwo]

SupernatGL :lol:

[Andrew NDB]

I mean, there's some precedent for that. The "Hard Traveling Heroes" of the 70s and all. And it might make the actual big space stuff they'll do much seem much more earned when they do it.

I actually much prefer the stories with Kyle Rayner when he was always grounded on Earth, but then gets sometimes dragged into affairs on other worlds and such. But always has coffee at Radu's and keeps his life going in NYC.

[Autbot_Benz]

“Our Lanterns have the rings and all the power they bring, and other characters and aspects of the lore are going to show up or be name-checked. But it’s a series that explores who these guys are when they’re on the job and when they’re out of uniform,” says Mundy. “It’s designed to be accessible for people who don’t know the mythology, but hopefully really satisfying for people that know it backwards and forwards.” He adds that Lanterns is set in its own creative realm, separate from other current or forthcoming DC Studios films and shows. “We’re not part of a larger storytelling plan right now,” says Mundy. “Season one is designed to be its own, complete season of television that, hopefully, will become many seasons of television.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/when-green-lanterns-become-true-detectives-meet-hbos-pulpy-prestige-y-lanterns

[Andrew NDB]

They say that, but they already said the Guy Gardner from Gunn's Superman movie is already supposed to show up. Not right away, but he will.

[IMJ]

Honestly? This replacement to the Snyderverse has had so much creator-masturbation in public, brief classes about the "universe" on Twitter/YouTube, talk from Gunn about "continuity clarifications" and so much other cart-before-the-horse bull$#!( that I'm not even remotely excited by any tease that I see. Complete apathy.

Just bring the movies out and let's see them and hopefully something will be exciting and great. 'Cuz f'n "Creature Commandos" aint it.

[Autbot_Benz]

https://i.imgur.com/htVEjLF.jpeg

[Andrew NDB]

'Cuz f'n "Creature Commandos" aint it.

I saw them all. They're just what you'd expect from Gunn, just a "weirder" extension of his The Suicide Squad movie. It doesn't even feel like it'd be outside of the -- at that time -- DCEU.

I just don't get why we couldn't have just gotten a soft reboot with Cavill and all. What's the reason why not? Because it'd be too hard to retrofit Krypto into the Man of Steel story? Is that about it? Supergirl already had an in in MoS.

[Andrew NDB]

https://cosmicbook.news/james-gunn-lanterns-right-wing-villains?fbclid=IwY2xjawOtslpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlk ETFYUzZJMmNHNHdUYWFxR0RFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MT c4ODIwMDg5MgABHg0HYDsMGzn-03eUiKjzr0Ak-cNOW94Q6h-Mcfsm9SO-ca4c3mtrnHwJR9CB_aem_mKVICfF3pWBOG4oYIVmOAw

I've been hearing rumblings about things in this vein for a while now about the show. It'll be Hal and John in the heartland going up against... white supremacists, same as Gunn had in Creature Commandos and same as Gunn had in Peacemaker. And they may of may not be investigating the death of (the retconned to be gay for the past few years) Alan Scott by their hands.

[ToTheNines]

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Will have to watch the show before passing judgement, but I’m not liking the casting for Hal or John, unfortunately.

[Andrew NDB]

A lot of FAKE stuff in there like Sinestro from the Ryan Reynolds movie. For me, obviously a big GL fan:

* Hal's too old.

* John's too effeminate/non-threatening.

Still, it's probably going to be a whole hell of a lot better than the show they were going to do before this. Which was apparently a big gay love story with Alan Scott in the 40s and then his murder investigation in the present.

[Autbot_Benz]

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Actual trailer the one above was fake

[ToTheNines]

Haha… sorry guys. Boomer moment!

My opinion still stands and I agree with Andrew’s assessment. I guess it’s a good thing Guy is the main Lantern in the movies, but I don’t know what THE SLATE is planning with these two.

[CyberCubed]

This barely looks like a bigger budget than the old CW superhero shows.

[Andrew NDB]

I see the Green Lantern uniform hanging up on a hanger in a closet... except the ring makes the costume so that doesn't make any sense. And it looks leather and brown in spots... yuck.

Honestly this is much worse than I was fearing.

[ToTheNines]

Yeah, looks bad man. Wrap this season up and give us a Kyle movie.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, and I'm still worried that maybe that 1940s gay melodrama murder mystery with Alan Scott from the previous incarnation of the show survived, as well.

[CyberCubed]

Even worse you can't just ignore the show like the CW shows because this is tied directly into Gunn's universe.

[ZariusTwo]

I said it elsewhere, but this trailer is made by people too spooked to pitch capes*it to casuals.

[ToTheNines]

I said it elsewhere, but this trailer is made by people too spooked to pitch capes*it to casuals.

Well said! And that’s very odd, since this is part of the Gunn-verse. What are they doing?

[Barkworm]

Couldn‘t they have tried to have more than ONE measly shot where the guys do some superhero stuff?

[ToTheNines]

https://i.imgur.com/5aWCtCo.jpeg

[CyberCubed]

If reviews are good I'll watch it for free when the season is done on the illegal streaming websites. At this point my time is more valuable than money, I'd rather be watching prestige television than watching slop.

[Andrew NDB]

The WB bots/FAKE paid accounts are in force all over social media about this, too. If you say anything bad about the costume they come at you like locusts. And they've all got the same party line responses: "It's based on the Earth-1 Green Lantern costume, duh!! Some fan you are!!"

And I'm like, I've owned the #1 Green Lantern fansite out there for 20 years and the message board with it and I've never encountered even ONE guy who sang any praises of that book or costume. That crap came out years ago and NOBODY liked it. And then you just get the same sort of, "Nobody ASKED YOU!" / "Don't like, don't watch!" automatic answers back at that point.

100% fake accounts/bots. Try it sometime and see.

[Andrew NDB]

Also, a bit of an odd note. In the trailer Hal mentions to John that he's the only human in the Green Lantern Corps... but we already saw Guy Gardner was a member in Superman. And we know Guy Gardner will show up in at least one episode of this show.

Is this show set years before Superman?

[ZariusTwo]

Official trailer pulled from all official HBO and DC social and YT accounts

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/dc-studios-has-suddenly-pulled-lanterns-trailer-from-almost-everywhere/

[IMJ]

They pulled the trailer but then Gunn posted the now-classic GL vol 3 cover of Jordan and Gardner fighting amidst the Justice League.

[ToTheNines]

Christ on the cross… how hard is it to make Green Lantern work? GL should be the new Star Wars by now.

[Andrew NDB]

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[Autbot_Benz]

Much better trailer

[Andrew NDB]

Costume still looks like poo. And Green Lanterns don't need to create shields to block bullets... the costume/ring automatically protects against that.

[ToTheNines]

Slightly better. Still don’t like the casting.

[Andrew NDB]

Hal's a little too old and John is a little too fey.

[IMJ]

I'm hopeful....

[TheLabRat]

Let me guess, the story will be another example of hollywood writers and directors projecting their own midlife crisis anxieties onto the male hero character(Hal).

[ZariusTwo]

A big leak that appears legit due to all the takedowns I'm seeing of anyone who talks about it

Hal dies in the first episode

[IMJ]

-sigh-

It's gonna fail.

[ToTheNines]

:lol: that rocks

[Andrew NDB]

At least make him Parallax. DOA.

[ToTheNines]

At least make him Parallax. DOA.

Which would be kind of annoying without Rayner around, but what else is new?

[Andrew NDB]

Which would be kind of annoying without Rayner around, but what else is new?

Who says he isn't around?

[ToTheNines]

Who says he isn't around?

That would certainly be a pleasant surprise, but I would not bet money on it.

[Autbot_Benz]

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Much better trailer

[Andrew NDB]

Much better trailer. And that's a nice Sinestro.

Manhunters, huh? So those leaks are all true. I don't know about shapeshifting Manhunters, though. They're not even really supposed to be sentient. They just say over and over again "No man escapes the Manhunters!" Because they're dumb robots. Like Sentinels.

And that energy shield is so stupid. Again, the ring is supposed to deflect thst stuff automatically.

[ToTheNines]

They called it

All the Hal scenes a flashbacks from 10 years prior. He is dead in present day and John isn’t even GL yet

[Andrew NDB]

Watched it. I'm still pretty irritated they're not getting the VERY basics of what a Green Lantern is (the ring makes the suit as soon as you put it on which does NOT get dirty or soiled, the ring automatically protects whoever is wearing it with a skin-hugging forcefield, Hal has a secret identity and wears a MASK!) but it's not terrible.

I'm also not convinced this really is showing us dead Hal Jordan at the end of this first episode. Especially since in the same episode they are already introducing time traveling shenanigans and shapeshifting aliens that can look like human. For all we know someone killed an alien or shapeshifting Manhunter that took Hal's form.

[Andrew NDB]

lol... OK, episode 2. You can see where this is going now. It's basically Smallville. We have lots of Manhunters running around that don't look like Manhunters and apparently now even the Red Lantern Corps and Atrocitus... but they're all human looking despite none of these characters ever having shapeshifting abilities in anything else. Oh, and Hal takes a trip to Oa and he is the only one there except for Sinestro.

The show is CHEAP. And it's continuing Damon Lindelof's white guilt thing with lots of references to white supremacy and white privilege for no reason at all.

[ToTheNines]

Sad to see. I say this all the time, but Green Lantern could be Star Wars with the right people making it.

Oh well.

[Andrew NDB]

lol... and now a Guardian of the Universe is showing up next episode, and it also looks like a normal-height human woman in regular clothes! This absolutely is fu**ing Smallville all over again.

Neither Red Lanterns (demon aliens from a demon planet in deep space), Manhunters (dumb robots that are just like Marvel's Sentinels but in space), or certainly even the Guardians have the ability to change their appearance but on this show they're all just regular guys and girls who shop at the GAP.

[IMJ]

McFarlane just dropped a pretty cool wave of GL pre-orders to coincide with this show......

[ToTheNines]

Congratulations on the writing gig sdp

https://i.imgur.com/DX12nR7_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, I'm seeing horrible things about episode 3. A tripling down on "white privalege" stuff and just a really bizarre reimagining of John Stewart's origin to make it about African Americans' fears about living in America.

The show really is like the worst Green Lantern adaption imaginable. Super woke, racial politics heavy, no costumes, all of the aliens (and robots) are just regularly dressed humans, barely any ring usage, the way the ring works is incorrect, etc..

[Autbot_Benz]

https://comicbookmovie.com/tv/dc/lanterns/lanterns-backlash-intensifies-as-dc-studios-podcast-host-brands-hal-jordan-a-racist-a229664

Black official dc podcast hoster says Hal is a racist. Stop hiring these people

[ZariusTwo]

Gunn addresses Lanterns criticism

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/lanterns-ep-james-gunn-shuts-down-storyline-hal-jordan-complaints/

[ToTheNines]

I’m not watching this show and don’t intend to. Haven’t been commenting because I think it’s lame to hate on something without actually taking it in, but the culture war crap around it is amusing.

I will say, every time I see a clip… the dialogue appears to be written by a middle schooler. I don’t know why anyone is glazing this show. Maybe I’m missing something.

[IMJ]

I'll probably get around to it at some point when I can power watch the entire thing.

[CyberCubed]

Once the season is over I'll watch it for free at 1.5x speed on the illegal streaming websites.

[Autbot_Benz]

Once the season is over I'll watch it for free at 1.5x speed on the illegal streaming websites.

You don’t need to announce your gonna pirate everything once it ends you cheap bastard :roll:

[CyberCubed]

The greatest joy of modern streaming is watching everything for free. I can't imagine going back to the early 2000's where you either had to pay to watch something on cable channels, buy a DVD, or watch at a certain time. God bless the modern internet!

Just think of all the money I've been saving!

[Andrew NDB]

There really isn't any part of this show that isn't infuriating.

[IMJ]

James Gunn's claims for "quality" of the show are that Hal Jordan gets more screen time in the show than anywhere else in history and therefore fans should be "happy".

Bent-meaning and Wordplay For Dummies, authored by James Gunn.

[ToTheNines]

The greatest joy of modern streaming is watching everything for free. I can't imagine going back to the early 2000's where you either had to pay to watch something on cable channels, buy a DVD, or watch at a certain time. God bless the modern internet!

Just think of all the money I've been saving!

Orange Lantern behavior

[CyberCubed]

So I just finished watching the show for free on the illegal streaming websites at 1.5x speed. It really felt like it was embarrassed to be a Green Lantern show. There's no real aliens shown (Sinestro is basically seen for two scenes with pink face paint), everything is on Earth, no sci-fi stuff at all besides a few small things. Hal and John are jerks to each other the whole show and hate each other for no real reason (Hal doesn't want to be "replaced" as Earth's Green Lantern, which makes no sense as Guy is also around)

Hal does die, basically gets killed by a normal police woman. Whether he remains dead in future stories remains to be seen, he basically just dies sitting on a football field bench as his ex-wife shoots him in the face with a gun after arguing.

The show despite airing on HBO felt like it lacked budget like the old CW shows, there was barely any action, special effects, no aliens, all just grounded humans. It's like watching a show that tried to avoid Green Lantern stuff as much as possible.