Click here to read the full article.HBO Max’s long-gestating Green Lantern TV series is changing gears.The drama that has been in the works since late 2019 will now focus on John Stewart, one of DC’s first Black superheroes.
The series, from exec producer Greg Berlanti, was to originally have revolved around Guy Gardner and Alan Scott and had already cast Finn Wittrock (Ratched) and Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) as the respective Green Lanterns.As part of the creative overhaul, writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has departed the series after completing scripts for a full season of eight episodes.
Sources say Grahame-Smith, who signed on as writer and showrunner a year after Green Lantern was announced, chose to leave the project after weathering a number of regime changes at HBO Max, its parent company, producers Warner Bros.
Television and now DC Comics.The decision to refocus Green Lantern arrives
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