Lantern: 10 Things You Need To Know About The Newly Announced Green Lantern TV Series
Yes, it's really called Lantern, and this is what you can expect from the show...
There have been rumblings for a while now that a Green Lantern TV series is in the works for the HBO Max TV series, but it's finally been officially announced...and it's going to be called Lantern. Like Arrow before it, it seems Warner Bros. has decided to remove the "Green" from the title in order to avoid bringing back memories of 2011 critical and commercial flop, Green Lantern.
Regardless of the undeniably goofy title, a tonne of new details have been revealed about the show today, including which characters it will feature, how some of them are going to be portrayed, and the impressive creative team working behind the cameras.
By the time this series arrives on the small screen, at least a decade will have passed since Ryan Reynolds donned a CGI suit to play Green Lantern, and it will be down to the home of DC projects like Justice League: The Snyder Cut, the detective-focused The Batman spinoff, and Justice League Dark to reinvent the franchise before Hal Jordan (hopefully) returns to the big screen.
All eyes are going to be on this big budget Lantern series, and if you're curious about what to expect from this DC Comics adaptation, then keep on reading...
10. Seth Grahame-Smith Is Serving As Showrunner
Seth Grahame-Smith was once attached to write and direct The Flash movie for Warner Bros., and he spent a considerable amount of time attached to that project before parting ways with the studio over creative differences.
He penned the novels that served as the basis for movies like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, writing the screenplay for the latter. Other credits include Dark Shadows, and the massively popular The LEGO Batman Movie, while he took on the role of executive producer for the two IT movies and that Child's Play reboot.
As well as serving as showrunner - a role which means he will have overall creative authority on Lantern - Grahame-Smith also has plans to co-write the first episode.
Despite disagreeing on how best to handle The Flash, Warner Bros. clearly sees something in the prolific writer and producer that makes him a good fit to be the one primarily responsible for rebooting the Green Lantern franchise (even if it is for television rather than cinemas).