Topic: Lanterns (HBO Max)

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‘Green Lantern’ Series Gets Greenlight at HBO Max

HBO Max has given out a series order to “Green Lantern,” Variety has learned.

Based on the DC Comics property, the show was first announced as being in development last year. Plot details are now available for the first time, however, from HBO Max:

"From HBO Max, DC, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television comes a bold adaptation of the iconic comic book franchise, a saga spanning decades and galaxies. GREEN LANTERN will depict the adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott — Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man — and many more. The series will also include fan favorites such as Sinestro and Kilowog, and will also introduce new heroes to the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps."

HBO Max has ordered 10 one-hour episodes. The series will be co-written and executive produced by Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Guggenheim, with Grahame-Smith serving as showrunner. Berlanti Productions will produce in association with Warner Bros. Television, where Berlanti is under a rich overall deal.

While not stated, it's possible HBO Max's parent company Warner Bros. is holding on to the DC characters of Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner for the Green Lantern feature film previously reported.

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

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From ComingSoon.Net

Report: HBO Max’s Green Lantern Series May Film in April

It’s been several months since HBO Max announced that it was developing a new Green Lantern TV series. And apparently, filming is set to begin sooner than expected.

According to an ad found in Production List, Green Lantern will start shooting in L.A. on April 12. Warner Bros. and DC have been vague about which power ring-wielders will show up on the new series. However, the listing names Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott as characters.

Seth Grahame-Smith, who was once in line to direct WB’s The Flash film, is showrunning Green Lantern. He’s writing the series alongside Arrowverse vet Marc Guggenheim, who also co-wrote the 2011 movie. Although the show takes place in a separate continuity from the Arrowverse, Greg Berlanti is onboard the project as a producer.

HBO Max has already given the series a 10-episode order. Regardless, the streaming service still hasn’t announced a release date. And if filming really is six weeks away, we can probably assume that the casting process has already begun.

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Finn Wittrock To Headline ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series As Guy Gardner

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.

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

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^  I don't see Guy Gardner as a "pretty boy" type. And they've gotta give him the classic bowl cut hair.

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So Warner doesn't want the producers to use Hal Jordan and John Stewart.  Probably the same scenario when Snyder wanted to use Stewart.

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^ I think WB is reserving Hal Jordan, Jon Stewart and Kyle Rayner for the big screen adaptation (or reboot if you will) of the Green Lantern franchise. Looks like the HBO Max series intends to tell the history of the GL Corps - possibly to set the stage for the movie version.

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‘Green Lantern’: Jeremy Irvine in Talks to Join HBO Max Series as Gay Hero Alan Scott

HBO Max’s Green Lantern has zeroed in on an actor to play Alan Scott, with Jeremy Irvine, who led the Bourne TV spinoff Treadstone, in talks for the role of the comic book hero.

Scott is one of the higher-profile gay characters in the DC Universe, although that is only a relatively recent development. He was created in 1940 with his ring being magical in nature. When Green Lantern was re-developed in the 1960s, it was against a sci-fi backdrop and the hero, Hal Jordan, was a test pilot in the Atomic Age. Eventually, Scott was re-introduced as a Lantern from a parallel Earth and in the 2000s. With the flourishing of the multiverse concept, he was reconceived as gay, leading a more inclusive movement at the publisher.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/green-lantern-jeremy-irvine-alan-scott-1234956195/

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Lee Toland Krieger To Direct First Two Episodes Of ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series

Lee Toland Krieger (Superman & Lois, Riverdale) is set to direct the first two episodes of Green Lantern, HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

https://deadline.com/2021/05/lee-toland-krieger-direct-first-two-episodes-of-green-lantern-hbo-max-series-1234765368/

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Lee Toland Krieger To Direct First Two Episodes Of ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series

Lee Toland Krieger (Superman & Lois, Riverdale) is set to direct the first two episodes of Green Lantern, HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

https://deadline.com/2021/05/lee-toland-krieger-direct-first-two-episodes-of-green-lantern-hbo-max-series-1234765368/

From viewing Superman and Lois, the choice of director is a good one

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Tobias Menzies Reportedly To Play Thaal Sinestro

According to unofficial reports, English actor Tobias Menzies is in talks to play Thaal Sinestro in the highly anticipated HBO Max Green Lantern series. Tobias Menzies has had a long and prolific career in film, television, and theater. He has played key characters in a number of impressive series including Brutus on HBO’s Rome, Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh in Netflix’s The Crown seasons three and four, and Edmure Tully on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2021/06/30/green-lantern-tobias-menzies/

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‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series to be Redeveloped

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

The drama, which 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 Warner Bros. Discovery, producers Warner Bros. Television, and now DC Comics.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greg-berlanti-green-lantern-series-hbo-max-redeveloped-1235248929/

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New Green Lantern TV Show in the Works from James Gunn, Peter Safran



The Green Lantern TV series is dead. Long live the Green Lantern series.

After years of development and redevelopment, an HBO Max series based on the DC superheroes from Greg Berlanti, the longtime steward of DC’s TV shows, has been scrapped. In its place, a new series is being developed, titled Lanterns, which is acting as a foundational show under the plans from newly installed DC Studios heads, James Gunn and Peter Safran.

“Greg’s vision was more of a space opera that he wanted to do,” said Safran during a presentation of the new DC slate on the Warner Bros. Studios lot Monday. “Our vision is more True Detective, more of a terrestrial-based investigation story. We all agreed to part ways.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/green-lantern-tv-hbo-show-greg-berlanti-1235314685/

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DC’s Green Lantern Series Taps Damon Lindelof, ‘Ozark’ Showrunner Chris Mundy as Writers

Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” “Watchmen”) and Chris Mundy (“Ozark”) have joined DC’s upcoming Green Lantern series as writers.

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn confirmed the news on Instagram Saturday, writing, “Yes, it’s true. The ‘Lanterns’ DCU series is putting together a crack team of writers, based on a wonderful pilot script and bible by Chris Mundy, Tom King and Damon Lindelof.”

In January of last year, Gunn and DC Studios co-head Peter Safran announced the Green Lantern series, titled “Lanterns,” as one of the first 10 film and TV titles within the rebooted DC Universe. At the time, Safran described the series as “a huge HBO-quality event” that is “very much in the vein of ‘True Detective.’”

“Lanterns” will focus on two of the best known members of the Green Lantern corps.: Hal Jordan (the test pilot first played on screen by Ryan Reynolds in 2011’s “Green Lantern”) and John Stewart (an ex-marine and one of DC’s first Black superheroes), who investigate a mystery that Safran said “plays a really big role leading us into the main story that we’re telling across our film and television.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/green-lantern-series-dc-damon-lindelof-chris-mundy-writers-1236016718/

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DC’s Green Lantern Series ‘Lanterns’ Picked Up as HBO Series for Eight Episodes

HBO has officially picked up “Lanterns,” the first live-action series created expressly for DC Studios under co-chairmen/co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran. The series has been given an eight-episode, straight-to-series order by HBO, with Chris Mundy (“True Detective: Night Country,” “Ozark”) serving as showrunner and exec producer.

Also on board: Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen,” “The Leftovers”) and Tom King (“Mister Miracle,” “Supergirl”), who will serve as executive producers and co-write “Lanterns” with Mundy. Warner Bros. TV is producing with DC Studios and HBO; the show is based on the DC comic “Green Lantern.”

The series will follow Hal Jordan and John Stewart, two members of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic team charged with defending a specific realm of the cosmos from evil through the use of rings that bestow an array of superhuman powers. Per the logline, new recruit Stewart and Lantern legend Jordan are “two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/lanterns-hbo-dc-studios-green-lantern-1236044393/

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Not sure how accurate, but there are online reports that Josh Brolin is being offered the role of Hal Jordan. No confirmation yet from official sources.

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Josh Brolin Passes on HBO’s Green Lantern TV Show

Josh Brolin will not be wearing the ring, after all.

The actor has passed on an offer to star in Lanterns, the DC Studios series based on the Green Lanterns superhero character, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Brolin was eyed to play Hal Jordan, the cocky Green Lantern hero previously played by Ryan Reynolds in the ill-fated 2011 Green Lantern movie. According to multiple sources, the actor received on offer at the end of August. By the end of this past weekend, his mind was made up. No other details were available.

Lanterns already has a high-pedigree as Ozark’s Chris Mundy is showrunning the eight-episode series, and co-writes with Damon Lindelof, the creator of HBO’s Watchmen and seminal TV show Lost, as well as Eisner Award winner comics author Tom King. The show, which falls under the HBO banner, is casting and in the middle of hiring directors. The series is looking to shoot from January to June in Atlanta next year.

The internet was all abuzz at the prospect of Brolin playing Jordan, although he was never a sure thing. Speculation also arose around several other A-listers, but it’s unclear how valid those rumors are. Matthew McConaughey, for example, will not be donning the ring, according to sources.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/josh-brolin-passes-on-hbos-green-lantern-tv-show-1235997083/

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Kyle Chandler In Talks To Star In ‘Lanterns’ DC Series For HBO

Emmy winner Kyle Chandler is in negotiations to star in Lanterns, HBO‘s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic, sources tell Deadline.

No one is commenting, but I hear Chandler is poised to play Hal Jordan.

https://deadline.com/2024/09/kyle-chandler-lanterns-hal-jordan-dc-green-lantern-hbo-1236097081/

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‘Lanterns’: Aaron Pierre & Stephan James In Running For John Stewart Role In HBO’s DC Series

Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad) and Stephan James (Homecoming) have emerged as top choices to star alongside Kyle Chandler in Lanterns, HBO‘s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic, Deadline has learned. The duo are in conversations to play John Stewart opposite Chandler’s Hal Jordan through sources caution that no offers have made. A rep for HBO declined comment.

https://deadline.com/2024/09/lanterns-aaron-pierre-stephan-james-john-stewart-dc-hbo-1236101811/

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‘Lanterns’: Aaron Pierre Cast As John Stewart In HBO’s DC Series

Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) has been tapped to star in Lanterns, HBO‘s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. He is set to play John Stewart opposite Hal Jordan, a role Kyle Chandler has been in negotiations for and expected to close.

Pierre landed the John Stewart part after an extensive search. As Deadline reported two weeks ago, in the process’ final stages, he had emerged as a frontrunner alongside Stephen James.

https://deadline.com/2024/10/aaron-pierre-cast-john-stewart-lanterns-hbo-dc-1236111350/

‘Lanterns’: Kyle Chandler Set To Star As Hal Jordan In DC Series For HBO

It’s official: Emmy winner Kyle Chandler is set to star in Lanterns, HBO‘s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. As Deadline reported exclusively last month, the Emmy winner had been in negotiations to play Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern character that was played by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 movie. After a search, Aaron Pierre was just cast as the co-lead, John Stewart.

https://deadline.com/2024/10/lanterns-kyle-chandler-hal-jordan-dc-series-hbo-1236111762/

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‘Lanterns’ HBO Series Casts Kelly Macdonald

HBO‘s Green Lantern series has cast Kelly Macdonald in a series regular role, Variety has learned.

Macdonald joins previously announced series leads Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre in the series, which is titled “Lanterns.” Per the official logline, the show follows “new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.”

Macdonald will star as Sheriff Kerry, who is described as “a no-nonsense woman deeply devoted to her family and close-knit town. Her resilience, shaped by a complex past that’s hardened her resolve, anchors her when the community’s secrets begin to surface.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/lanterns-hbo-cast-kelly-macdonald-1236194983/

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‘Lanterns’: Garret Dillahunt Joins DC Series For HBO

Garret Dillahunt (Fear The Walking Dead) has been tapped for a major recurring role in Lanterns, HBO’s drama series based on the Green Lantern DC comic.

Dillahunt will play modern cowboy William Macon, a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade.

https://deadline.com/2024/11/lanterns-garret-dillahunt-dc-hbo-william-macon-1236164759/

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‘Lanterns’: HBO’s DC Studios Series Casts Poorna Jagannathan

Poorna Jagannathan has been cast in a recurring role in the upcoming HBO series “Lanterns,” Variety has confirmed.

Jagannathan will play Zoe, who is described as “effortlessly confident and poised in any setting, even those where she stands out. She is every bit as composed and cunning of the influential men around her.”

Jagannathan previously starred in the HBO limited series “The Night Of” in the role of Safar Khan. In TV, she is also known for her role in the Netflix comedy “Never Have I Ever” and will appear in the upcoming Onyx Collective series “Deli Boys” at Hulu. In film, she recently starred in “Wolfs” opposite George Clooney and Brad Pitt as well as features like “Turtles All the Way Down,” “Mile 22,” and “The Circle.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/lanterns-hbo-dc-studios-cast-poorna-jagannathan-1236211857/