![]() ![]() It is unknown yet as to whether or not the TV Show will make Lynn Pierce’s link to Green Lantern more explicit, or whether the link was meant to be made in the TV show at all, but all fans need is a little more connection start the speculation.īlack Lightning returns Tuesday, January 23 at 9PM EST on the CW. She seems to be a strong female role in the TV Show despite being more of a minor character in the comics. In the series premiere of Black Lightning, it is revealed that Jefferson Pierce only gave up the mantle of Black Lightning after Lynn Pierce resorted to divorce. That’s right, Lynn Pierce was once Lynn Stewart. Arrow and the Flash may have dropped some easter eggs to everyone’s favorite Ferris Air pilot, but those are nothing compared to the connection Black Lightning has with a different Green Lantern: John Stewart.įans of the DC animated Justice League series and another animated productions may recognize John Stewart, but many don’t realize that Black Lightning was married to John Stewart’s sister. ![]() It is unlikely that the megaproducer will continue to play a role in the new DC Studios.Black Lightning, while not a part of the Arrowverse, is making connections with other heroes from the DC Universe including Green Lantern. He still has Superman & Lois on the air and the upcoming action series, Gotham Knights. Gunn and Safran also teased that they were already talking to actors about Lanterns.īerlanti has seen his DC shows, known mostly as the Arrowverse, scaled back dramatically in recent years, amid changes in studio leadership and the sale of the CW to Nexstar. You don’t have that luxury to spend time with the characters like you would here.” The character first appeared in All-American Comics no. “Whereas in a movie you find yourself moving the story along. Green Lantern, American comic strip superhero created for DC Comics by artist Mart Nodell and writer Bill Finger. “We had in incredible experience with Peacemaker to be able spend eight hours digging deep into the character,” said Safran. The executives are looking forward to using the series format to explore and develop characters, in a way that the movie medium cannot. We don’t want the series to feel in any way like stepchildren or lesser than. Using the example of John Cena, who played violent character Peacemaker in Gunn’s feature The Suicide Squad, then starred in HBO Max’s spinoff Peacemaker, Safran said, “Anyone we cast as John Stewart and Hal Jordan, they will then cross over into the movie side of things. “This plays a really big role in leading into the main story we are telling across film and TV,” Safran said.Īnd unlike the casting of the previous actors, who had little chance of seeing themselves on the big screen, the actors who will play the Lanterns will also carry those roles into theaters. Gunn described it as a “huge HBO TV style event” while Safran said it was a very important and foundational series for their slate. It was a Green Lantern comic that spawned the term women in refrigerators, coined by Gail Simone to describe the trope of women being killed or otherwise grievously harmed in order to cause angst for male characters, when Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend Alex was dismembered by a supervillain and left in Kyle’s refrigerator for him to find. With Gunn and Safran, a new direction is once again being explored. It’s unclear how much has been sunk into a Green Lantern series, but sources say it’s deep into seven figures. And it even had its leads cast in Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine.īut last year, before Gunn and Safran took over DC, even that was scrapped completely and all-new new direction decided upon (to focus on Black Green Lantern, Stewart). ![]() Seth Grahame-Smith was tapped to act as a showrunner and had written all eight episodes of the first season. But this ambitious (and expensive) incarnation was scaled back into a version that focused on just Alan Scott, threading a socially conscious backstory of being gay in more conservative times, and Guy Gardner, still macho after all these years. Some of the players, Marc Guggenheim among them, had worked on 2011’s ill-fated Green Lantern movie that starred Ryan Reynolds. One early version focused on original Lantern hero, Alan Scott, in a story set in the 1930s or 1940s, macho Lantern Guy Gardner in more modern times, and one set in the future featuring the character Sojourner Mullein. In the works since at least 2019, Green Lantern was touted to be the most expensive DC show ever made, with multiple stories sprawling across time and space. 'The Flash' Director Andy Muschietti on Ezra Miller's Potential Future With Franchise: No One Else "Can Play That Character as Well" ![]()
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