With HBO Max's Green Lantern television series on the way, Pacific Rim star Robert Kazinsky has expressed interest in playing everyone's favorite insufferable jerk with a green power ring and heart of gold: Guy Gardner."I don't often talk about jobs I want, I usually just go about quietly not getting them, but, ya know, been talking about this asshole for a decade," Kazinsky wrote on Twitter alongside an image featuring a side-by-side comparison between him and Guy Gardner.RELATED: Green Lantern: HBO Max Series Includes Gay Hero, Introduces New Corps Members
To date, the only attempt at a live-action Guy Gardner was in the 1997 TV film Justice League of America, in which he was played by Matthew Settle. Outside the comics, the Baltimore native turned brash, abrasive Lantern has gained more positive attention through animated appearances, with Gardner being a recurring side character in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Season 2 of Green Lantern: The Animated Series. The most notable examples of Gardner's fellow Lanterns in live-action, by comparison, include Ryan Reynolds' Hal Jordan in the 2011 Green Lantern movie and David Ramsey's John Diggle on Arrow, which often teased (and eventually confirmed) that the character was the Arrowverse's version of John Stewart.
A recent announcement about the HBO Max Green Lantern series, produced by Arrowverse mastermind Greg Berlanti, revealed that Gardner would be one of the show's main characters. Other Lanterns in the cast include ring drill instructor Kilowog, Corp member turned adversary Thaal Sinestro, Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott and DC's two newest Sector 2814 Lanterns: Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. The jury is still out regarding appearance by fellow Earth green Lanterns Jordan, Stewart and Kyle Rayner.
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.