DC’s Green Lantern TV Series to Now Focus on John Stewart

Is new DC Entertainment head honcho James Gunn already making strikes? The Hollywood Reporter says no, nevertheless it definitely feels well timed that in the future after the announcement that Gunn would head up all issues DC for Warner Bros. Discovery that the long-in-development Green Lantern TV collection would pivot to star John Stewart, greatest recognized for starring within the animated Justice League collection.

Weirdly, it appears the Greg Berlanti-produced collection wasn’t allowed to make use of Stewart, though the zillion different Lanterns had been up for grabs. From THR: “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.” While Guy Gardner is enjoyable as a result of he’s a jerk, Alan Scott is a Golden Age hero who’s not often been explored, and Hal Jordan’s “personality” may greatest be outlined as “square-jawed,” so I feel this transfer is for the very best.

Seth Grahame-Smith, who was performing as showrunner and had apparently completed eight full scripts for the collection, has departed the mission. The fates of actors Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine, who had been forged as Gardner and Scott respectively, are unknown, and neither is seemingly signed to the present.

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