The HBO Max “Green Lantern” series is being revamped to focus on a different main character, and has lost its audience as a result.
DC and HBO Max decided to take the TV series adaptation of the fan-favorite comic in a different direction, focusing on Jon Stewart – a black Green Lantern, rather than the other Green Lanterns who were initially the focus of the project. As a result, showrunner and writer Seth Graham-Smith (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) has decided not to stick with the project, sources confirmed to TheWrap.
We’re told that the decision to change the focus of the “Green Lantern” series comes ahead of news that James Gunn and Peter Safran will be moving the DC Universe.
Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions is associated with the project through its overall deal with Warner Bros. Television.
Graham-Smith was working on the series’ 10-episode first season, which focused on a variety of Green Lanterns, including Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz. Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irwin were cast as Gardner and Scott, respectively, but it is unclear whether they will remain attached to the new iteration of the project.
The project was first greenlighted in 2020 and marks DC’s attempt to reintroduce the Green Lantern character after the ill-fated Ryan Reynolds feature film released in 2011.
Zack Snyder features a version of Green Lantern at the end of his “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” director’s cut, released on HBO Max in 2021, directed by Wayne T. Carr, courtesy of new footage shot as part of the additional photography. When “The Snyder Cut” was green.
Graham-Smith is currently writing the sequel to “Now You See Me 3”.
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