Green Lantern Corps show for HBOMax

[Andrew NDB]

A new rumor suggests Arrowverse producer Greg Berlanti is developing a Green Lantern Corps show for HBOMax starring Kyle Rayner.

The rumor comes from TVO at The Lords of the Long Box.

He reports, “Greg Berlanti is developing a Green Lantern Corps TV show for HBOMax featuring everybody’s favorite Green Lantern Kyle Rayner.”

TVO explains that Hal Jordan is hands off because they plan to use him in the movies. He then points to the idea that Arrow’s John Diggle is really John Stewart in disguise. TVO notes, “John Stewart is already on Arrow with John Diggle discovering last season who he really is, if you guys have been paying attention. So we don’t know where that’s going to go. Remember John Diggle’s fathers name is Stewart. So watch out for that.” He continues, “John Stewart Green Lantern will temporarily be seen during the Crisis crossover.” He adds, “Otherwise he’s being held back as well.”

TVO then discusses why it’s going to be on HBO Max, “I’m being told it’s going to be on HBO Max because that’s the one that could give it the best budget. They don’t want to have to put it on The CW because The CW just wouldn’t do it justice.”

HBO Max will be the home to Doom Patrol. It’s unclear if DC Universe’s Titans will join them, but Berlanti is behind Titans as well as the Arrowverse show. It’s possible this Kyle Rayner Green Lantern show could be a spin-off from Titans. Rayner was fast friends with Titans member Wally West in the comics. However, West did not appear in Titans Season 1. However, he is rumored to appear in Season 2.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/...g-kyle-rayner/

Also, at some point a John Stewart-centric spinoff of Arrow was pitched (maybe), with Diggle as GL. Maybe this even went somewhere. It's not inconceivable to imagine Diggle merging with his John Stewart lookalike after "Crisis on Infinite Earths":

https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/...hed-to-the-cw/

[IMJ]

I am a Hal purist, but John Stewart is a legit character with great history from the comics and recognizability from the Timmverse. If they rebooted GL for the DCEU with John Stewart I think it could be a huge hit.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I am a Hal purist, but John Stewart is a legit character with great history from the comics and recognizability from the Timmverse. If they rebooted GL for the DCEU with John Stewart I think it could be a huge hit.

Personally, I'd love if the merging thing happens. i.e., John Diggle becomes John Stewart, but still retains all of his history and family from Arrow. Maybe that's a little too convoluted, though.

[ZariusTwo]

Lords of the Long Box are who said Sony and Disney had a new seven picture Spider-Man deal, they're full of s*it

[TurtleTitan97]

This sounds way too good to be true.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Ugh, John Diggle, Green Lantern? Hell no.

[sdp]

I'm guessing HBO Max is going to absorb everything DC's streaming service is doing, only then would they compete with Disney.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Ugh, John Diggle, Green Lantern? Hell no.

Ya I don't like it either. But I like the actor and his character. But my issue is that he is already Diggle. Anything they do that makes him "John Stewart" is lame. They should've just made him John Stewart to begin with because I think he'd do a great job.

[Andrew NDB]

It's happening...

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/gre...ti-1203387210/

[raph27]

So what's the point of DC Universe, a service specifically dedicated to DC content, if high budget shows are being shipped out to other services?

[sdp]

Originally Posted by raph27

So what's the point of DC Universe, a service specifically dedicated to DC content, if high budget shows are being shipped out to other services?

AT&T has big plans for HBO Max, they want to compete with Disney+/Netflix and are heavily investing in it, right now AT&T has a mess of streaming services with Hanna Barbera having one, DC having one, HBO having one and that's not all of them, however they all have very few subscribers, so they want to have all of the services under one streaming service to rule them all which is HBO Max.

So yeah, DC Universe will be a place of some DC content but mainly for comics and whatnot, and eventually you'll see all the content come to HBO Max, unless they're boneheaded and want to continue keeping exclusive content to each service.