HBO Max’s Green Lantern is now a John Stewart-centric affair, so any human Lanterns that pop in will be playing second fiddle. But even if Irvine and Wittrock do get to play Alan and Guy, it won’t be the same as what was originally envisioned. I was also intrigued by the prospect of following along with these characters at different decades, with Alan being a closeted gay man working as an FBI agent in the 1940s, and Guy embodying the macho man stereotype of the 1980s.īecause HBO Max is changing direction with Green Lantern, Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock are no longer signed on, through reportedly Berlanti Productions is still interesting in working with these two if/when this project, which has a script-to-series commitment, moves forward. So with John supposedly having been unavailable to use, the HBO Max show was a good opportunity to boost their profiles. Nothing against any of them, but the chances of these four leading a live-action Green Lantern movie in the near future were slim. With Green Lantern Corps focusing on Hal Jordan and John Stewart, HBO Max’s Green Lantern was a great opportunity to put the lesser-known human Green Lanterns front and center: the aforementioned Alan Scott, played by Jeremy Irvine, and Guy Gardner, played by Finn Wittrock, as well as Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. Maybe if 2011’s Green Lantern had featured John instead of Hal, it might have have drawn more people to the theater, and that’s the foundation of my concern: John deserves to shine in a blockbuster movie. For a generation of DC Comics fans, he is the main Green Lantern, and I’d even go so far to say that John’s fanbase is far larger than Hal Jordan’s. Now before anyone gets the wrong idea from the above words, let me make it clear: John Stewart deserves to star in his own live-action project. (Image credit: DC Comics) Is This The Right Move For John Stewart? If Green Lantern Corps couldn't make much headway with John as one of its leads, and assuming WarnerMedia doesn’t want to feature two live-action versions of the character, then it’s sounding like HBO Max’s Green Lantern is taking priority and Green Lantern Corps is now sitting on the shelf. Will the movie now just star Hal Jordan? We tried that in 2011 and it didn’t go well. However, now that John Stewart will be the main protagonist of HBO Max’s Green Lantern, this seems like a good indicator that Green Lantern Corps is no more, or at the very least will have to go through its own retooling. On the other hand, it could be interesting to have two DCEU-set Green Lantern projects taking place in the DCEU, similar to how Peacemaker spun out of the events of The Suicide Squad. With Green Lantern Corps firmly set in the DCEU continuity, I doubt I was alone in thinking that HBO Max’s Green Lantern could be set in another reality, namely because of how the series was going to explore different time periods. Now granted, there’s nothing to say that these two projects couldn’t exist simultaneously. The lack of news concerning Green Lantern Corps is bad enough on its own, but then there’s the fact that HBO Max’s Green Lantern has, albeit slowly, been making more progress overall. In May 2021, Green Lantern Corps was alleged to still be happening, but almost a year and a half later, there hasn’t been a peep about it. Along with obviously never hitting its target release date (2020 instead delivered Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman 1984), we haven’t gotten any major word on its progress since it was reported in late 2019 that Geoff Johns was expected to turn in a new Green Lantern Corps draft to Warner Bros. While Green Lantern Corps was once being positioned as a key movie in the DC Extended Universe, it doesn’t appear that’s the case anymore. (Image credit: DC Comics) Why Green Lantern Corps Probably Isn’t Happening Anymore
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