10 New Things We Learned About Joss Whedon's Justice League
5. There's No Green Lantern In Sector 2814 (Yet)
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Given how iconic Green Lantern is as a member of the Justice League, you'd be forgiven for wondering why he isn't among the film's roster. Granted, 2011's CG-laded box-office bomb did much to harm the character's onscreen capital, but he's still one of DC's most popular heroes. A return shouldn't be left off the cards.
And indeed, it looks like the character is set for one. Steppenwolf's narration confirms that the Lantern Corps are very much a thing in this continuity (although they lack a presence on Earth), and so it would make sense that a film should follow. Said film will purportedly centre around Hal Jordan and John Stewart, but what the trailer tells us is that neither are yet to recite the Lantern oath. Indeed, it even hints that Abin Sur - the onetime guardian of Sector 2814 - just doesn't exist in this continuity. Earth has no Lantern protection whatsoever.
It'll take a lot to make audiences forget Ryan Reynolds' much maligned turn as character, but at least we know the Corps are very much a thing in the current mould of the DCEU.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
