When the Green Lantern television series debuts on HBO Max, it will have the production values of a feature film according to producer Marc Guggenheim.
During the SAM@Home event, Guggenheim briefly discussed the series during a live stream on YouTube. "I happen to believe -- and this is not a universally held opinion -- that you can't do a ten-hour show or an eight-episode show, like an 8-hour movie," he explained "I don't think that works. You've got to look at it with a different tempo than you would have in a two-hour movie. That being said, certainly the show for HBO Max that we're all working on, we are approaching it with the production ambitions of a movie. So we're writing it like a TV show but we're hoping to produce it like a film."
Guggenheim previously co-wrote the screenplay for the Ryan Reynolds-helmed Green Lantern film in 2011, alongside Greg Berlanti and Michael Green. Although Green Lantern would go on to receive mostly negative reviews, Berlanti and Guggenheim would later create an interconnected universe of DC television shows starting with Arrow.
Green Lantern will feature a large cast of Earth-based Green Lanterns, including Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz. Other confirmed cast members include Alan Scott and Guy Gardner. Berlanti previously teased that the show would be the "biggest DC show ever made" in a statement last October.
Executive produced by Geoff Johns and written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Guggenheim, HBO Max's Green Lantern series has yet to receive a premiere date.
Source: YouTube, via Comicbook.com