Since fans of Zack Snyder's Justice League never saw Wayne T. Carr's Green Lantern Corps' John Stewart in action, Snyder shared a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the DC superhero.Days after Wayne T. Carr spoke about what it was like having his role as John Stewart cut from 2021's Justice League, Snyder dropped a photo of Carr on set as the Green Lantern.
Later, Carr posted a closeup of himself on Twitter, portraying the Green Lantern in the aforementioned deleted scene from Justice League. Previously, Carr shared that Snyder let him know that the choice to not have Green Lantern in the 2021 film was due to the studio, not him, noting, "He called me after he showed it to everyone, I think it was the second time because they had watched it in parts. He was like, 'They're not letting me do this thing.'"
After both images dropped online, fans made the hashtag #ReleaseTheGreenLanternScene trend on Twitter -- asking the studio to release Carr's cut scene in full.
Originally, Snyder intended to end Justice League with Batman being visited by John Stewart and Green Lantern Kilowog. However, Warner Bros. vetoed the scene. While it's not known why that choice was made, it is known that HBO Max is currently developing a live-action Green Lantern series that includes John Stewart and Kilowog as characters. At the time of this writing, no casting announcements have been made to either role in the HBO Max series.
On April 30, it was announced that Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) has been cast in the role of Guy Gardner in the upcoming HBO Max series focused on the galaxy defenders. A casting search is still underway for Green Lantern Alan Scott.
The synopsis for HBO Max's Green Lantern can be found below.
Green Lantern reinvents the classic DC property through a story spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott, and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner and half-alien Bree Jarta. They'll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.
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.