{"id":48042,"date":"2020-10-09T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=48042"},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T00:45:11","slug":"hbo-max-orders-green-lantern-to-series-seth-grahame-smith-set-to-showrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/09\/hbo-max-orders-green-lantern-to-series-seth-grahame-smith-set-to-showrun\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Orders GREEN LANTERN To Series, Seth Grahame-Smith Set To Showrun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HBO Max has given the greenlight to Green Lantern<\/em>, a new live action adaptation of the DC Comics superhero with a ten episode series order.<\/p>\n

Novelist-turned-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith will head up the show’s creative direction as showrunner. Additionally, he will co-write the series’ pilot episode with Greg Guggenheim, co-creator of DC shows Arrow<\/em> and Legends of Tomorrow<\/em> over on the CW. The series is coming from Greg Berlanti’s production house, which is responsible for all of the DC Comics-originated CW shows, as well as Stargirl<\/em>, which recently immigrated from the DC Universe streaming app to HBO Max.<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, the Green Lanterns are a force of universal peacekeepers, each one assigned a sector of space to patrol by the Guardians of the Universe – they named themselves – who reside on the planet Oa. Their chief tool\/weapon is a ring that holds an energy that can allow its wearer to mold it into any type of shape or object their will can create. Earth has been home to a number of wielders of a Green Lantern ring, most notably Hal Jordan, whom has been the featured hero of most of the Green Lantern comic book runs.<\/p>\n

According to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> –<\/p>\n

The makers are describing the show as a saga spanning decades and galaxies and will feature a host of Green Lanterns, the galactic police officers that patrol the known and unknown universe. The show will focus on Earth-centric Lanterns Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and Alan Scott and will also have alien Lanterns such as fan-favorite Kilowog, as well as Sinestro, a former Lantern now turned villain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly, the above paragraph makes no mention of Green Lantern Hal Jordan, which opens up the door to all kinds of speculation as to why.<\/p>\n

Warners has been trying to turn the Green Lantern comics mythos into a live action franchise for some time. They initially tried in 2011 with a live action film starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, though that failed to ignite the box office. A Green Lantern Corps<\/strong> movie has been in development for their DC Extended Universe film franchise with comics writer Geoff Johns reportedly set to turn in a script for that late last year. It is not known if that project is still in development or if it has been dropped in favor of the HBO series.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that Grahame-Smith has been engaged to work on a DC Comics property for Warner Brothers. Back in 2015<\/a>, he was brought on to write and direct the studio’s planned The Flash<\/strong> movie, but left six months later<\/a> over creative differences. He did write the animated Lego Batman Movie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There is no premier date announced for Green Lantern<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The streaming service has picked up the galaxy-spanning superhero story for ten episodes.<\/div>\n

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