The Green Lantern live-action series for HBO Max has revealed its central characters, which will include the Earth's first Green Lantern, Alan Scott -- who will be gay just like in the Earth-2 comics and DC's updated main timeline -- and all-new corps members.
According to Deadline, joining Scott are Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, Sinestro and Kilowog. Green Lantern will be written by Seth Grahame-Smith (The LEGO Batman Movie) and Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, 2011's Green Lantern movie). Grahame-Smith will also serve as showrunner of the HBO Max series. Geoff Johns, who helped redefine the Green Lantern mythos at DC, will serve as an executive producer.
"In what promises to be our biggest DC show ever made, we will be going to space with a Green Lantern television series, but I can’t reveal any more about that just yet,” producer Greg Berlanti teased in a statement back in October 2019.
Fans of the Green Lantern franchise will immediately recognize that two prominent names are missing from the HBO Max cast list: Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Hal Jordan has starred in numerous volumes of the Green Lantern comics, with John Stewart becoming a household name in the Justice League animated series.
Berlanti, the mastermind behind The CW's Arrowverse, took a first crack at the Green Lantern franchise back in 2011 alongside Arrow co-creator Marc Guggenheim. They co-wrote Green Lantern, though they ultimately lost creative control before its release. The film, which starred Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, was a critical and box office flop.
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: Deadline