The first Green Lantern series never managed to get off the ground, despite casting Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine as Guy Gardner and Alan Scott, but it looks like this newly retooled series will finally give audiences a Green Lantern series to fall in love with.
Safran and Gunn confirmed that the series, aptly titled Lanterns, will follow fan-favorite members of the Green Lantern Corps: Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
He’s become a voice of reason (especially when interacting with the still-reckless, cocky Hal Jordan, who nonetheless gets his name in the series’ title), and a reliable hand guiding the franchise forward … as well as an all-too-rare example of a prominent character of color in the still-too-white superhero universes of DC and Marvel’s fictional worlds.Īs to what role he’ll play on the big screen? We’ll have to wait to find out, but given his exclusion from the last attempt to bring the franchise to movies, at least comfort can be taken in his presence this time around.At a super-secret press event on Monday, the newly minted co-heads of DC Studios, James Gunn and Peter Safran, provided details on the extensive slate of content coming to the rebooted universe, including the Green Lantern series that was first announced back in 2019. Currently, he’s the leader of the entire Corps in the Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps comic book, having outgrown his earlier melancholy and reactionary tendencies. In recent years, Stewart’s role in the Green Lantern franchise has grown. This would feed into the source material when Stewart returned to duty as a Green Lantern in the comics, he would be played as more restrained, more controlled and more of a drill sergeant to the reborn Green Lantern Corps, which returned to comics in the 2004 Green Lantern: Rebirth series. The animated John Stewart bore little resemblance to the comic book character, in terms of personality playing up the military background, he was more uptight and dismissive of others around him when they suggested breaking rules, and saw things in simpler terms than the, at times, overly-complicated comic book original. Elsewhere, however, just the opposite was true: the Green Lantern in Cartoon Network’s fan-favorite Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated shows was Stewart, rather than the comic book-contemporary Kyle Rayner or classic Hal Jordan, meaning that Stewart would be many fans’ first exposure to the entire Green Lantern concept. He’d show up as a powerless guest-star in the Green Lantern series - events having depowered all but one Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner Hal Jordan having turned evil and destroyed the Corps in a sales-grabbing storyline - or in other series, briefly, but for the most part, he wasn’t really a presence. He’d stay in the role for years after, even when Hal Jordan returned as Green Lantern in the 200th issue of the comic in 1986, with the two co-existing (along with other Lanterns, including Guy Gardner and their own alien Lantern romantic partners) until the series’ cancelation in 1988.īetween 19, Stewart’s comic book profile was minimal. By this point, Stewart was less of a social activist - and less likely to speak in a manner his white comic book writers conceived of how an African-American activist should talk, meaning fewer words like “ whitey’s” being thrown around the page - and more dedicated to being a superhero. 182, when Jordan quit as Green Lantern, and Stewart was activated as his replacement. Things changed in 1984’s Green Lantern No. “I don’t want it,” Stewart tells a racist policeman at one point in the issue, “but I’m not about to run from it, either! And anyway, I kind of doubt you’re man enough to give it - even with your nightstick!” (“Frankly, I think you’re making a mistake!” Jordan tells his Guardian mentor, afterwards.)įor years after that introduction, Stewart was mostly left on the shelf. Enter John Stewart - a military veteran whose social activism makes Jordan nervous. 87, this man (a schoolteacher called Guy Gardner, who would also later become a Green Lantern in his own right) is injured in an accident, forcing the Guardians to replace him as backup. 59 established that the Guardians of the Universe - essentially Hal Jordan’s space cop bosses - had installed a “backup” Green Lantern on Earth in case Hal ever became unable to do his job. Stewart’s role had actually been set up in an earlier story 1968’s Green Lantern No.
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