After years of stop and start development, HBO is finally moving forward with its Green Lantern TV series, based on the film DC Comics Series.
Officially titled Flashlightsthe series will be overseen by showrunner Chris Mundy and co-written by Damon Lindelof and creator of DC comics Tom King. No cast has been announced at this time.
Here’s how HBO described the show’s premise:
The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Flashlight Legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the heartland of America.
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DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn had this to say about the series:
We’re thrilled to bring this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom at the helm. John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and FLASHLIGHTS brings them to life in an original detective story that is a key part of the unified DCU we launch next summer with ‘Superman.’
Gunn’s Superman film will feature its own Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, played by Nathan Fillion.
Green Lantern was previously an extremely unpopular big-budget film starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. In the years after the film’s failure, Warner Bros. and DC changed several others Green Lantern adaptations. They announced a Green Lantern TV show there in the fall of 2020when Max. was still known as HBO Max. That series had a different showrunner (Seth Grahame-Smith) and Completely different lead lanterns: Finn Wittrock as Guy Gardner and Jeremy Irvine as Alan Scott.
Given its expansive cast and potential as a procedural – the Green Lanterns are space cops, so they could investigate a new case every week – Flashlights It should work better on TV than as a movie. Or at least that’s what is expected. Even at your worst moment, how could it be worse than the Green Lantern film?
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